Kmenta (1997) and his “philosophy of making everything as simple and clear as possible” (p. vii). It is our hope that readers agree that we have realized this goal. Indeed, if readers are interested in further analyzing or replicating the results presented in this monograph, the datasets are available for download through the SAGE website.
Acknowledgments
There are many people to thank for help on this project. At SAGE, we would especially like to thank Helen Salmon (Acquisitions Editor) and John Fox (Series Editor). Their general enthusiasm for this second edition, coupled with specific useful suggestions for improvement, are greatly appreciated. Also, we wish to take note of the insightful comments made by the many reviewers of our proposal. In addition, we acknowledge particular teachers, including Frank M. Andrews, John DiNardo, Lawrence B. Mohr, and Jan Kmenta, whose wisdom has abided. Furthermore, we are grateful to the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research, University of Michigan, and its past and current directors, William G. Jacoby and Saundra K. Schneider, who have given such strong support to this monograph. Thanks as well to the following SAGE reviewers who provided valuable feedback and suggestions: Charles R. Boehmer, University of Texas at El Paso; Tim Liao, University of Illinois; Michael Ornstein, York University; Carl L. Palmer, Illinois State University; Walter J. Stone, University of California, Davis; Matt Vogel, University of Missouri–St. Louis; and Herbert F. Weisberg, The Ohio State University. Last, but not least, we express gratitude to our students, in Iowa, Michigan, and around the world. They have taught us what we need to teach.
About the Authors
Colin Lewis-Beckis a PhD candidate in Statistics at Iowa State University. He holds a BA from Middlebury College and a dual MPP/MA in Public Policy and Applied Statistics from the University of Michigan. While at Michigan, he received an Outstanding Teaching Award from the Department of Statistics. Also, he has worked as a teaching assistant and a computer consultant, during multiple summers at the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Summer Program, University of Michigan. His research experiences in statistics are varied, including serving as a statistician in the Economic Analysis and Statistics Division of the OECD (Paris) and at STATinMED, a health outcomes research firm in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His interests are applied statistics related to social science research, causal inference, and spatial statistics. Mr. Lewis-Beck has coauthored papers on the quality of life and work productivity, modeling health care costs, and technology use in educational performance.Michael S. Lewis-Beckis F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Iowa and holds a PhD from the University of Michigan. His interests are comparative elections, election forecasting, political economy, and quantitative methodology. He has been designated the fourth most cited political scientist since 1940, in the field of methodology. Professor Lewis-Beck has authored or coauthored more than 240 articles and books, including Applied Regression: An Introduction, Data Analysis: An Introduction, Economics and Elections: The Major Western Democracies, Forecasting Elections, The American Voter Revisited, and French Presidential Elections. He has served as an Editor of the American Journal of Political Science, the SAGE QASS series (the green monographs) in quantitative methods, and The Sage Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods. Currently, he is Associate Editor of International Journal of Forecasting and Associate Editor of French Politics. In the spring of 2012, he held the position of Paul Lazersfeld University Professor at the University of Vienna. During the fall of 2012, he was Visiting Professor at the Center for Citizenship and Democracy, University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium. In the spring of 2013, Professor Lewis-Beck was Visiting Scholar, Centennial Center, American Political Science Association, Washington, DC. During the fall of 2013, he served as Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. In the spring of 2014, he was Visiting Scholar, Department of Political Science, University of Göteborg, Sweden. In the fall of 2014, he served as a Visiting Professor at LUISS University, Rome. At present, he is coauthoring a book on how Latin Americans vote.
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