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From Statistical Nuisances to Serious Modeling: Changing How We Think About the Analysis of Time-Series—Cross-Section Data

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2017

Nathaniel Beck
Nathaniel Beck*
Affiliation:
Department of Politics, New York University, New York, NY 10012-1119. e-mail: nathaniel.beck@nyu.edu
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This special issue of Political Analysis hopefully marks a watershed in how we as a discipline think about modeling time-series—cross-section (TSCS) data. By that I mean moving beyond thinking of TSCS data as only presenting a series of technical estimation problems that are seen as violations of the Gauss-Markov assumptions, problems that can be treated by better estimation methods. The articles in this special issue point to ways of moving forward in thinking of TSCS data as providing opportunities to model intrinsic and important features of the data (while also paying attention to the various statistical issues).

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Research Article
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Political Analysis , Volume 15 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Time-Series Cross-Sectional Analysis , Spring 2007 , pp. 97 - 100
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Copyright © The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Political Methodology 

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