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Small Cluster Numbers? New Tools Help Political Scientists Get More Accurate Results

Clustered data is common in political science research.

➡️ The Problem: Standard methods can produce misleading statistics when there are few clusters (G), even if each cluster has many observations.

➡️ New Solutions: This paper provides user-friendly Stata and R packages that offer better uncertainty measures for small G.

➡️ Why It Matters: Reanalyzing recent work with the new methods shows more reliable results than relying on traditional cluster-robust standard errors.

Political Science Research & Methods
Practical and Effective Approaches to Dealing with Clustered Data was authored by Justin Esarey and Andrew Menger. It was published in PSR&M in 2019. Find on Google Scholar10.1017/psrm.2017.42
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