Textbooks
Desiging Simulations in R - A textbook (in progress, and joint with James Pustejovsky) please give feedback!) on writing simulations in R, with an emphasis on Monte Carlo simulations for assessing how well estimators work in given contexts.
Software
textreg - Concise comparative summarization of text (you can regress a category label onto the full space of words and phrases in a corpus). CRAN R package.
simITS - Package for evaluating Interrupted Time Series data using simulations that have autoregressive structure. This gives nice displays of projected uncertainty that grows as one extrapolates farther and farther form the policy change. CRAN R package.
blkvar - Package for analyzing multisite and blocked experiments in various different ways. R package on GitHub. Install this package in R using
devtools::install_github( "https://github.com/lmiratrix/blkvar")
hettx - Package for testing for and estimating treatment variation in individually randomized trials. CRAN R package. Also see GitHub for most recent version.
PUMP - Package for doing power calculations, in particular when planning studies that have multiple outcomes. See this MDRC blog post for more information. Also see the Web App for doing these calculations. (Joint work with MDRC.)
Teaching
Grading participation: Miratrix has started having students set their own agenda for how they participate in class. Check out this writeup from VPAL at Harvard for more information.
Other Resources and Information
- Insights from JREE: Paper Summaries for the Field. A library of freely available and written-to-be-accessible summaries of papers published in JREE (part of an initiative started by the current editorial board of which Dr. Miratrix is a part).
- Prof. Luke Miratrix's CV (Click Here.)
- Maxime Richard's award winning poster on geographic regression discontinuity designs. This work is part of a two-paper series looking at how spatial statistics can be coupled with RDD. For our first paper, see A Nonparametric Bayesian Methodology for Regression Discontinuity Designs. For the second, see A Bayesian Nonparametric Approach to Geographic Regression Discontinuity Designs: Do School Districts Affect NYC House Prices?.
- Recorded talk on bias in observational studies: Miratrix & Weidmann's "Using national data and meta-analysis techniques to get a handle on how bad some biases might be in practice". Online Causal Inference Seminar, December 2020