Sherman Dorn's Weblog

Late last week I received the exemption letter and downloaded the dataset for NLSY79 from the NLS Investigator.

Next step: familiarize myself with the sampling codes for R (an open-source statistical package similar to S-Plus). I wish R had been around when I was in grad school, because in several ways it’s simpler than either SAS [...]

I sent in the request for an IRB exemption certification for this pilot project, because secondary analysis of existing longitudinal data sets would not give me any identifiable information. There is an option for the NLSY79 to acquire geocoding (which requires permission from the Bureau of Labor Statistics as well as an IRB form), but [...]