Matt Jans

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Can anyone recommend a good overview article comparing methods of sentiment analysis?

This isn't my specialty area, and I'm not in a position to conduct an extensive lit review, so I'm hoping you all can point me to your favorite sentiment analysis articles. By "sentiment analysis"...

20 September 2021 8,266 10 View

Has anyone seen (or calculated themselves) performance benchmarks between Stata and SAS?

I have a good sense of how Stata and SAS differ in how they handle data files (with SAS reading only one observation into memory at a time and being able to handle multiple files at one, and Stata...

26 February 2015 1,629 7 View

What are the proper techniques for analyzing reliability of categorical variables with a large number of categories?

The specific context is industry and occupation codes. These are 6-digit codes that are hierarchical and categorize a person's industry and occupation based on what they report to an open-ended...

27 January 2015 9,062 8 View

Does anyone have a survey collecting sexual orientation data on teens or older adults?

Do you know of or have a survey that collects sexual orientation (i.e., LGB or "sexual identity") data from teens or older adults? I've been gathering some info on LGB questions broadly, so I'd...

02 December 2014 7,690 4 View

Do you like to use 0 or 1 as the base category for your categorical (nominal and ordinal) variables?

I realize there are some situations where a true dummy coding (0, 1) is needed to make coefficients interpretable (and situations where you have to do contrast coding, etc), but in terms of...

21 August 2014 6,453 11 View

Are gay and lesbian people less likely than straight people to report their sexual orientation in surveys?

I'm doing some research on this right now, and finding an interesting relationship. Has anyone out there studied this (directly or through lit review)? Any expectations one way or the other? Do...

27 February 2014 9,877 10 View

What is the relationship between age and nonresponse bias?

Looking for one or two model papers for a conference paper. Does anyone have a favorite paper on nonresponse bias (unit and/or item) in elderly populations...or papers correlating age with...

06 January 2014 4,585 4 View

What is an effective amount to offer a teenager (13-18) to do a 15 min phone survey?

I'm designing an incentive experiment for a survey of teen respondents. I'm wondering what amount of incentive will work for a short phone survey. The incentive will be promised (rather than...

15 October 2013 7,467 3 View