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New site

Hello Quarto & Positron
Like many other people in the R Extended Universe circa 2021, I originally created my website using blogdown and Hugo. In a lot of ways, it was great! It worked with minimal…
Aug 19, 2025

Spencer SCD @ Vandy Part 6: Thoughts about standards

BIG DISCLAIMER UP FRONT: These are just my opinions. They are not a reflection of anyone at IES or my colleagues doing work for SWAT contract.
Jul 2, 2022
 

Spencer SCD at Vandy pt 5: Do we need a central repository for SCD data?

Open research practices are of keen interest to a lot of the folks I met, particularly the grad students. I think that some kinds of open research practices are a little…
Jul 1, 2022
 

Spencer SCD @ Vandy pt. 4: What is stability? And consequences of controlling for baseline trend

Jennifer Ledford opened the conference with some important details about the structure and origins of the conference. We were arranged across the rotunda in small tables…
May 30, 2022
 

Spencer SCD @ Vandy pt. 3: Schools of analysis for SCDs and relevant design choices

When I was developing my own review of literature for the analysis of SCDs for my qualifying process and later dissertation, I sorted the analysis of SCDs into roughly four…
May 23, 2022
 

Spencer SCD @ Vandy Part 2: Functional Relation

Prior to my time at the conference, I had understood the functional relation as being case-specific, related to the basic effect demonstrated by a case or phase pair.…
May 22, 2022
 

Reflections from the Spencer SCD Conference at Vanderbilt Part 1

This was important enough to me that it seemed worth posting my first real blog about. This first part of my reflections are more about how the experience at Vanderbilt made…
May 21, 2022
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