Transcription of Basic Principles of Statistical Inference
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Basic Principles of Statistical InferenceKosuke ImaiDepartment of PoliticsPrinceton UniversityPOL572 Quantitative Analysis IISpring 2016 Kosuke Imai (Princeton) Basic PrinciplesPOL572 Spring 20161 / 66 What is Statistics?Relatively new disciplineScientific revolution in the 20th centuryData and computing revolutions in the 21st centuryThe world is stochastic rather than deterministicProbability theory used to model stochastic eventsStatistical Inference : Learning about what we do not observe(parameters) using what we observe (data)Without statistics: wild guessWith statistics:principled guess1assumptions2formal properties3measure of uncertaintyKosuke Imai (Princeton) Basic PrinciplesPOL572 Spring 20162 / 66 Three Modes of Statistical Inference1 Descriptive Inference .
Inferring population average turnout from a sample of voters Inferring individual level behavior from aggregate data 3 Causal Inference: predicting counterfactuals Inferring the effects of ethnic minority rule on civil war onset Inferring why incumbency status affects election outcomes Inferring whether the lack of war among democracies can be
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