Advanced Quantitative Methods I: Description and Prediction

Harvard HKS

The goal of this course is to prepare students to analyze public policy issues using statistics. Topics included fall in the areas of probability theory, statistical inference, causal inference, and machine learning. While many students taking this course will have already taken courses in statistics and econometrics, this course will probably place a much stronger emphasis than typical courses on conceptually understanding the statistical methods. Since the course is targeted to first-year…