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Friday, October 3, 2025

Basic Primer on Stata Graphics

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While the graphics functions in Stata remain among the more cumbersome and nettlesome, helpful external resources exist for those interested...
Thursday, September 25, 2025

"Making Bail" and Race

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Megan Stevenson (UVa) begins a recent paper, A Decomposition of Racial Disparities in Pretrial Detention , with the observation that "[...
Thursday, September 18, 2025

CELS 2025 Registration

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At the request of the CELS 2025 conference co-organizers, I am delighted to pass along the following conference registration information:   ...
Sunday, September 14, 2025

Even Descriptive Statistics (and Tables) in Stata Got A Bit More Powerful (and Complicated)

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While perhaps I shouldn't be surprised, but even some simple, quick-and-easy descriptive commands in Stata have become a bit more comple...
Friday, September 5, 2025

Should Confidence Intervals Increase or Decrease Confidence?

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As described in this helpful essay ( here ), a confidence interval is one of those "statistical inventions that hides its trick in pla...
Friday, August 29, 2025

Structuring Coding for "State-" and "District-Level" Controls

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While this discussion on the StataList (click here ) does not specifically speak to the legal context per se , the logic of what is being di...

Defendant/Prosecutor Cross-Racial Pairing Effects on Convictions

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As racial disparities in the criminal context persist, studies of factors that might plausibly contribute likewise persist. One such inqui...