Monthly Archives: August 2010

Urban canoeing: Cedar Lake to Minnehaha Falls and back

Chris Desjardins and I took another urban canoe trip yesterday. We originally planned to pick up where we left off last time, at Hidden Falls in Saint Paul, but we chose a different route to take advantage of recent rains … Continue reading

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Structural equation modeling for theory-driven evaluation

Just to show that I’m not the biggest slacker-blogger on the Web, I want to direct you to my guest-post on AEA365: A tip-a-day by and for evaluators. I chose my “tip” because I think structural equation modeling (SEM) and … Continue reading

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Regression discontinuity gallery: Spatiotemporal piecewise regression

I think I have settled on a dissertation topic: spatiotemporal piecewise regression evaluation. Spatiotemporal piecewise regression (SPR) refers to the analysis of longitudinal data from a spatial regression discontinuity (SRD) design with multiple pre-test observations. SRD offers a way to … Continue reading

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