Detectives Handbook @detectives_blog
A collaborative blog for those interested in social science and quantitative methods. thedetectiveshandbook.wordpress.com Joined October 2016-
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Claire Houghton @RTC_Edinburgh looking at domestic abuse and how Covid has affected the rights of children and young people research-training-centre.sps.ed.ac.uk/covid-19-and-p…
New post from @VGorton @kevralston 'Statistics anxiety: Busting the anxious women myth?' @uoessps @NCRMUK @QStepEdinburgh #QSTEP thedetectiveshandbook.wordpress.com/?p=630
Statistics minus anxiety - a course on teaching stats whilst acknowledging statistics anxiety @NCRMUK @AQMeNNetwork @britsoci @profbigvern @ekharrison @SLS_DSU ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.…
'Statistics minus anxiety' a course for those teaching quantitative methods who want to know more of the evidence on statistics anxiety and other issues @britsoci @QStepEdinburgh @QStepLeeds @BritishAcademy_ @NuffieldFound @ESRC store.southampton.ac.uk/short-courses/…
Post from the archive: @kevralston Quantitative Methods Pedagogy in Sociology: What have we got to go on? #qstep #anxiety thedetectiveshandbook.wordpress.com/2015/10/05/qua…
Historic low unemployment? Data driven: the employment rate of 16 to 24 year olds @PeterStefanovi2 @ad_formby @UKYouth @WESjnl #datadriven thedetectiveshandbook.wordpress.com/2019/02/11/dat… via @wordpressdotcom
Check out @profbigvern and @ConnellyRoxanne talking reproducibility twitch.tv/videos/3700124…
Check this out: @kevralston on Mediation analysis of a Poisson outcome with a binary mediator in @Stata , using the PARAMED module written by @richardaemsley & Hanhua Liu. thedetectiveshandbook.wordpress.com/2019/01/14/fun… #data #socialscience
First post of 2019... thedetectiveshandbook.wordpress.com/2019/01/14/fun…
We now have a Facebook page for 2019, like us!!! The blog had a phenomenal 2018. Nearly 2000 views, 781 from the USA. facebook.com/detectivesblog/
Margins and marginsplot in looking at categorical interactions in Stata thedetectiveshandbook.wordpress.com/2018/10/15/a-c…
New Post from @kevralston 's popular series: A Categorical Can of Worms III -Examining categorical interactions in logit models using Marginal estimates and Marginsplot thedetectiveshandbook.wordpress.com/2018/10/15/a-c…
Post from the archive: @Stata 15 Dynamic Documents: ‘.do files on steroids’ thedetectiveshandbook.wordpress.com
New Blog Post from @kevralston : Richard Feynman on Sociology @ProfFeynman @britsoci thedetectiveshandbook.wordpress.com/2018/08/06/fey…
Post from the Archive: -qv- and –qvgraph- nifty new commands for estimating quasi-variances in Stata thedetectiveshandbook.wordpress.com/2015/09/22/qv-…
New Post from @kevralston using @ONS #data: Mortality by occupation: Is occupation no more than a convenient category? thedetectiveshandbook.wordpress.com/2018/05/29/mor…
Mortality by occupation: Is occupation no more than a convenient category? thedetectiveshandbook.wordpress.com/2018/05/29/mor… via @wordpressdotcom
Post from the archive: @kevralston Generations of worklessness, a myth that won’t die thedetectiveshandbook.wordpress.com/2017/10/31/gen…
All maps are inaccurate but some have very useful applications: Thoughts on Complex Social Surveys from @profbigvern thedetectiveshandbook.wordpress.com/2016/12/05/all…
New Post: @ConnellyRoxanne and @profbigvern on publishing sociological research as a @ProjectJupyter Notebook using @Stata thedetectiveshandbook.wordpress.com/2018/01/08/res… Take a look!

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