Second Chance for New Student Orientation

An additional new student orientation will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 4, at 1:30pm at the Ritazza's in the library. All are welcome! Questions contact Andy at abaxter1 [at] uncc.edu.

New Student Orientation

New student orientation is scheduled for Wed. Aug. 29 and Thurs. Aug. 30 at 1:30pm in the Ritazza's in the library. Returning students feel free to join. Sessions are redundant. Questions, contact Andy at baxterassoc[at]gmail[dot]com.

Good Source of Training for SAS, SPSS, STATA

A relatively nearby, inexpensive, and high-quality source of training on some of the statistical software commonly used in our program is at the Odum Institute at UNC Chapel Hill. See this link:
http://www.odum.unc.edu/odum/jsp/content_node.jsp?nodeid=21
Scroll to the end to see the software course offerings.

-Andy

Additional Prelim Meetings

Thursday, May 24

10am: Dr. Kropf - Research Design

1pm: Dr. B - Quant

As of this posting, both will be in the Colvard graduate student lounge.

Current Prelim Meeting Schedule with Professors

Monday, May 14:
11 to noon - Schwarz
1pm to 2pm - Russo ***Econ conference room, 242 Friday Bldg.***

Tuesday, May 15:
11 to noon - Manuel
1pm to 2pm - Dr. B

July - Wang

All meetings in the Colvard Graduate Student Lounge directly down from the PPOL suite unless otherwise noted!

Still waiting to hear on everyone else. David says he will set a meeting with us when he has finalized everything.

I will post updates here and on the chalkboard in the Grad Lounge.

August 2007 Preliminary Exams

Hi everyone! As per my e-mail to those taking the prelims in August, this will be the place we can place the final schedule for professor meetings, joint study sessions, questions to the group, etc.

As of today, 4-20-2007, I have e-mailed all the professors requesting meetings with each of them for us during either the week of May 14th-18th or May 21st-25th.

David has said he would meet with us as soon as the new format is determined.

Wooooo-hooooo! I am looking forward to a summer of studying economics, stats, research design/methods, program evaluation and THEORY! Yeeeha.

See each of you soon. Cheers to all! Wendy

NYT article: Income Gap is Widening

New data (2005 tax records) show that Americans in the top 1% receive the largest share of national income since 1928. The top 10% received 48.5 % of all reported income.


http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/29/business/29tax.html?em&ex=1175400000&en=5a2d017aeb4df8cf&ei=5087%0A

ps....sorry no Gini coefficient discussion involved :)

Great Article Comparing STATA, SASS, and SPSS

Follow this link to a good breakdown of the relative strengths and weaknesses of SASS, STATA, and SPSS. Easy to read and very helpful.

http://www.ats.ucla.edu/STAT/technicalreports/Number1/ucla_ATSstat_tr1_1.0.pdf

Letter to President Bush regarding redeployment:

http://www.speaker.gov/pdf/pres1507.pdf