While relogit is a standard "go-to" Stata command when a data set includes "rare events," a threat of bias is enhanced if rare events derive from a "small sample." While bootstraping
may be an option for some, a recent Stata listserv discussion (here) emphasizes a pair of commands -- firthlogit and exlogit -- that might make sense for others. [...]
With help from a colleague, I can report on significant news relating to the US Sentencing Commission that goes along with the new Congress. As reported in this post, back
in August 4, 2022, the Senate confirmed Prez Biden’s seven nominees to the US Sentencing Commission, fully reconstituting the Commission after many years of being [...]
[Note: After patiently hearing me out on this topic since the election, Jack asked me to write this up. The delay is entirely my fault. The truth is I’ve been paralyzed
by the realization that we sleep-walked through an entire election cycle with the major parties and candidates showing only the barest interest in reforming our system [...]
[First posted in AWOL 18 March 2011, updated 4 January 2025] Arkeometri Sonuçları Toplantıları ISSN: 1017-7671 [First posted in AWOL 18 March 2011, updated 4 January
2025] [...]
Roman Identity: Between Ideal and Performance Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta, José Luís Brandão, Cláudia Teixeira, Ália Rodrigues (eds)
Recent years have seen a significant increase in migration and displacement. Due to economic, political, and climatic pressures, large numbers of individuals are [...]
The Archaeology of War: Studies on Weapons of Barbarian Europe in the Roman and Migration Period Bartosz Kontny From graves to settlements, and from the battlefield to underwater
sacrificial sites, weapons dating to the Roman and Migration Period have long been found in an array of contexts throughout the region that forms modern-day Poland. [...]
[First posted in AWOL 12 December 2018, updated 4 January 2025] [First posted in AWOL 12 December 2018, updated 4 January 2025] Syrians for Heritage (SIMAT)
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On New Year’s Day, at least 14 people were killed and dozens more wounded when a man drove a rented pickup truck into a crowd of revelers on Bourbon Street, New Orleans.
The FBI quickly identified the assailant as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. Army veteran, saying that an ISIS flag was found in his truck and the Bureau was “working [...]
Legal Education: Jesse Rothstein (UC-Berkeley) & Albert Yoon (Toronto), Rankings Without U.S. News: A Revealed Preference Approach to Evaluating Law Schools Neil Hamilton (St.
Thomas-MN), Professional Identity Formation And The NextGen Bar Open Opportunities For Law Student And Law School Success David Hyman (Georgetown), Jing Liu (East [...]
Nancy B. Rapoport (UNLV; Google Scholar), Training Law Students to Model Civility When Social Media Makes Civility Harder to Maintain, 85 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 511 (2024): This
paper, presented as part of a symposium honoring the Hon. Joseph F. Weis Jr., discusses two relatively recent law student behavioral failures,... [...]
