Writings.

Publications

Olivia Lau, Ryan T. Moore, and Michael Kellermann. “eiPack: R × C Ecological Inference and Higher Dimension Data Management.” R News, vol. 7, no. 2 (October 2007), pp. 43-47, Link.

• Applications: Legislative redistricting, epidemiology
• Implements extreme case analysis, ecological regression, and the multinomial-Dirichlet model
• Package available on CRAN
• Package is the best short example of R / C++ code

Kosuke Imai, Gary King, and Olivia Lau. “Toward a Common Framework for Statistical Analysis and Development.” Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, vol. 17, no. 4 (December 2008), pp. 892-913, Link.

• Software available as “Zelig: Everyone’s Statistical Software”
• Applications: Interprets and presents results from statistical and econometric models
• Package maintainer from 2002-2007 (last maintained version was 2.8-5)

Jonathan Wand, Gary King, and Olivia Lau. “Anchors: Software for Anchoring Vignette Data.” Journal of Statistical Software, vol. 42, no. 3 (June 2011), pp. 1-25 Link.

• Applications: Corrects interpersonal subjectivity in survey responses
• Implements a random-effect ordered probit model for censored data
• Package available here.

Old Working Papers

These are working papers and I know there are errors. Please do not cite.

• Prospectus (approved, but comments are greatly appreciated!)
• United Nations Security Council Reform: The Efficacy of Small States Under Bipolarity and Uni-Multipolarity.
• Measuring Institutional Strength: The Correlates of Growth.