JEFF GILL

Gill, Jeff. “Introducing the Special Issue of Political Analysis on Bayesian Methods (An Introduction and Overview of Bayesian Methods)”. Political Analysis 12, no. 4 (2004): 323-337

Gill, Jeff, Micah Altman, and Michael McDonald. “Numerical Issues in Statistical Computing for the Social Scientist”. John Wiley & Sons, 2003

Reviews:  “A compact guide to the voluminous literature on optimisation, numerical analysis, and computational statistics. This is no small achievement.” – Statistical Software Newsletter in Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. “…an excellent text. It has the potential to be enormously influential across the social sciences…It should be required reading for everyone who performs statistical computing at…

Gill, Jeff. “Bayesian Methods: A Social and Behavioral Sciences Approach”. CRC Press, 2002

Reviews: “…easily the most comprehensive, scholarly, and thoughtful book the subject… it will do much to promote the use of Bayesian methods.” –David Blackwell, University of California, Berkeley. “A surprisingly thorough review written by a user of Bayesian statistics, with applications drawn from the social sciences.” –Persi Diaconis, Stanford University. “This book is a brilliant…

Gill, Jeff, and Jason Gainous. “Why Does Voting Get So Complicated? A Review of Theories for Analyzing Democratic Participation”. Statistical Science 17, no. 4 (2002): 383-404

Gill, Jeff, and Ken Meier. “Ralph’s Pretty Good Grocery Versus Ralph’s Super Market, Separating Excellent Agencies From the Good Ones”. Public Administration Review 61, no. 1 (2001): 4-12

Gill, Jeff. “Whose Variance is it Anyway? Interpreting Empirical Models with State-Level Data”. State Politics and Policy Quarterly, 2001, 318-38

Figure 1: Alternative Population Models

Gill, Jeff. “Generalized Linear Models: A Unified Approach”. SAGE QASS series, 2000

Datasets from the book: Capital Punishment, Scottish Vote, Educational Testing, World Copper Prices, Committee Bill Assignments Incomplete Beta Function Table (Replication from Cox and Snell, 1968).  S-Plus/R code for the examples.  The Handout from my American Statistical Association (Boston chapter) Workshop. Contains lots of S-Plus/R code for GLMs.  Data from the Workshop (useful for running the examples).  Pat Altham’s Homepage (several useful guides to…

Gill, Jeff, and Kenneth Meier. “What Works, A New Approach to Program and Policy Analysis”. Routledge, 2000

Code and datasets from the book:  S-Plus/R code, Child Support, Texas Schools, 1854 “Lunatics”, Murder Rates and Pooled Texas Data.

Gill, Jeff, and Ken Meier. “Public Administration Research and Practice: A Methodological Manifesto”. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 10, no. 1 (2000): 157-199

Gill, Jeff, and James Thurber. “Tightwads and Spendthrifts: Measures of Fiscal Behavior In the House of Representatives”. Political Research Quarterly 52, no. 2 (1999): 387-401