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Hertie School of Governance Introduction to Collaborative Social Science Data Analysis
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Issues with robust standard errors #31

Open christophergandrud opened 9 years ago

christophergandrud commented 9 years ago

It is really common in political science and economics to throw robust standard errors at grouped data.

If you're interested in some of the background on why this is often not the best solution see this new article:

http://pan.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/long/mpu015v1