Summer Plans?

[ThisGuyRiteHere]

What do you guys plan on doing this summer before PhD?

I am probably going to try to intern somewhere. If not, I will be reading some political theory and relaxing haha.

Edited March 17, 2013 by TheMarketMan

[PoliSwede]

I'm going back home to Europe for 1-2 months (during which I will continue to work on papers).

[alittlebitofluck]

Math. Lots of math.

[NBM]

Travel a bit. Learn basic computer science. Read... read some more.

 

Math. Lots of math.

 

And ^ this (although rather unwillingly).

[ThisGuyRiteHere]

Math. Lots of math.

 

Why so much math? Are you doing methods or have you just not had it for awhile?

[peternewman89]

I'll be staying at my job until late June/early July, then visiting some family around the country and heading to Nashville, where I'll be in school, with my girlfriend to find an apartment/condo and get a bit more of a feel for the city.  In the meantime I'm catching up on journals and such, since I haven't been too much in the loops since I graduated 2 years ago, and even then was more focused on classics and major works than on modern academic writing.  

[RiffRam]

Math. Lots of math.

This! My POI is actually sending me a book to brush up on some Stats. Also, it was nice meeting you the other weekend!

[alittlebitofluck]

Why so much math? Are you doing methods or have you just not had it for awhile?

 

I will certainly take methods as a field - perhaps as my primary one. So, I need constant practice.

 

This! My POI is actually sending me a book to brush up on some Stats. Also, it was nice meeting you the other weekend!

 

It was very nice meeting you too, RR! Do you know what book they are sending you?

[hawkeye78]

This! My POI is actually sending me a book to brush up on some Stats. Also, it was nice meeting you the other weekend!

One of these 3? 

 

 

Hagle, Timothy M. 1995. Basic Math for Social Scientists: Concepts. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Lindsey, J.K. 2004. Introduction to Applied Statistics: A Modelling Approach (2^nd Edition). Oxford University Press.

Wonnacott, Thomas H. and Ronald J. Wonnacott. 1990. Introductory Statistics (Fifth Edition). New York: Wiley.

 

They are the three you will use in the intro to stats class taught by Sara unless she decides to change it.

[RiffRam]

I will certainly take methods as a field - perhaps as my primary one. So, I need constant practice.

 

 

It was very nice meeting you too, RR! Do you know what book they are sending you?

 

 

One of these 3? 

 

 

Hagle, Timothy M. 1995. Basic Math for Social Scientists: Concepts. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Lindsey, J.K. 2004. Introduction to Applied Statistics: A Modelling Approach (2^nd Edition). Oxford University Press.

Wonnacott, Thomas H. and Ronald J. Wonnacott. 1990. Introductory Statistics (Fifth Edition). New York: Wiley.

 

They are the three you will use in the intro to stats class taught by Sara unless she decides to change it.

He didn't tell me the title, but said it's a book that he read prior to starting grad school. He said it helped him tremendously, so hopefully it'll have the same effect on me! It was also nice to meet you Hawkeye78! Apparently I remembered exactly who you were when I described you to Lemeard! lol

[hawkeye78]

He didn't tell me the title, but said it's a book that he read prior to starting grad school. He said it helped him tremendously, so hopefully it'll have the same effect on me! It was also nice to meet you Hawkeye78! Apparently I remembered exactly who you were when I described you to Lemeard! lol

Gotcha! Those are three that you will use in the first class. They also have it set up where they do a "math review" once a week where you review things like matrix algebra, integral calculus and other fun stuff 

 

Yeah Lemeard and I were together at Okie State and he stuck around to teach another year and I came up here to Iowa. As long as you can deal with the weather and the terrible parking downtown, everything else is pretty good. Brian sent an email to the rest of the grad students the other day after you accepted and told us to feel free to contact you. Before I got here the other grad students set up a Facebook group for the new folks to join and ask questions on housing, classes, etc. and I expect we will do that again. 

 

I see you also worked with Jim Scott. He was one of my 4 letter writers when I applied here. It is nice that he knows most of the folks here. Feel free to shoot me any questions on here. I didn't get to talk much with group that was here but I'm more than happy to answer questions. 

[alittlebitofluck]

One of these 3? 

 

 

Hagle, Timothy M. 1995. Basic Math for Social Scientists: Concepts. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Lindsey, J.K. 2004. Introduction to Applied Statistics: A Modelling Approach (2^nd Edition). Oxford University Press.

Wonnacott, Thomas H. and Ronald J. Wonnacott. 1990. Introductory Statistics (Fifth Edition). New York: Wiley.

 

They are the three you will use in the intro to stats class taught by Sara unless she decides to change it.

 

The Wonnacott and Wonnacott text is pretty great, I think. I read it in conjunction with Statistics by Freedman, Pisani, and Purves. Taken together, I thought that they provided an excellent foundation of basic statistics and probability theory.

[hawkeye78]

The Wonnacott and Wonnacott text is pretty great, I think. I read it in conjunction with Statistics by Freedman, Pisani, and Purves. Taken together, I thought that they provided an excellent foundation of basic statistics and probability theory.

Yeah it was useful for someone that didn't have a big background in stats (me)

 

This is the book for the 2nd semester of Intermediate Methods which is really mostly an OLS class.

 

 

Introductory Econometrics, A Modern Approach, 4th Edition. Jeffrey Wooldridge. South Western, Cengage Learning. ISBN 0324581629.

[alittlebitofluck]

Yeah it was useful for someone that didn't have a big background in stats (me)

 

This is the book for the 2nd semester of Intermediate Methods which is really mostly an OLS class.

 

 

Introductory Econometrics, A Modern Approach, 4th Edition. Jeffrey Wooldridge. South Western, Cengage Learning. ISBN 0324581629.

 

I am using Woolrdidge now. While the appendices can be intimidating, I think that the book treats the subject matter well. That said, I found that my understanding of the material increased dramatically when I began reading A Guide to Econometrics by Kennedy. But that might just be me.

[hawkeye78]

I am using Woolrdidge now. While the appendices can be intimidating, I think that the book treats the subject matter well. That said, I found that my understanding of the material increased dramatically when I began reading A Guide to Econometrics by Kennedy. But that might just be me.

Fred (the guy who teaches our intermediate methods class) mentioned the Kennedy book recently as one we should pick up and add to our collection. It's on my "to buy" list now.

 

 

Did you come up for our recruitment weekend recently? 

 

 

EDIT: this was the next section of my syllabus after the Woolrdidge book was listed

 

"I also recommend that you take a look at the following supplemental textbook that provides a different perspective on the topic:

A Guide to Econometrics, 6th Edition. Peter Kennedy. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 1405182571."

Edited March 19, 2013 by hawkeye78

[alittlebitofluck]

I PMed you.

[ThisGuyRiteHere]

As someone with experience in metrics, you are learning almost the same thing from a regular statistics book. It does not get into specific methods till about Chapt 10-12, where you need calculus for it.

That is in reference to woodbridge BTW

[Cesare]

I was planning on rereading Habermas, Skinner, and Foucault.... but after reading these comments I guess I will skim over my notes from previous quant and qual courses.