Politics by numbers

..., former President of the American Political Science Association's Section for Political Methodology, talks about the use of quantitative methods for assessing the probability of armed conflicts. Professor Freeman focuses his research on developing a ... ... about it, as opposed to others who do it explicitly. I think the people that do it the best are the people that use Bayesian statistics. They are much more explicit about their beliefs, about specification and the like. Scholars like Jeff Gill from Washington ...