Estimating Population Quantities From Multiple Data Sources Using the Structural Tensor Factorization Soichiro Yamauchi (Harvard University) Abstract: Estimating population quantities such as public opinions from survey data is a fundamental task in many social science studies. In... Read More Estimating Population Quantities From Multiple Data Sources Using the Structural Tensor Factorization
Latent Factor Approach to Missing Not at Random Naijia Liu (Princeton University) Abstract: Social scientists rely heavily on survey datasets to study important questions, such as policy preferences and voting intentions. However, it... Read More Latent Factor Approach to Missing Not at Random
Certain. Wrong. Misinformed? Evaluating Survey-Based Measures of Political Misperceptions Matthew Graham (Yale University) Abstract: Survey measures of the public's factual beliefs suggest widespread misinformation on politically relevant matters of fact: not only do... Read More Certain. Wrong. Misinformed? Evaluating Survey-Based Measures of Political Misperceptions
Don’t Know, Don’t Care: Non-Attitudes in African Public Opinion Blair Read and Paige Bollen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Abstract: Public opinion data can contain a wealth of information about how citizens evaluate and participate in... Read More Don’t Know, Don’t Care: Non-Attitudes in African Public Opinion
Bias-Corrected Crosswise Estimators for Sensitive Inquiries Yuki Atsusaka (Rice University), Randy Stevenson (Rice University) and Ahra Wu (Dartmouth College) Abstract: The crosswise model is an increasingly popular survey technique to... Read More Bias-Corrected Crosswise Estimators for Sensitive Inquiries