Some Techniques I Would Like to Work On

This is about as self-referential as it gets... but here it goes any way.  There are a few techniques that I would like to learn over the next semester.  I figured I would mention them here in case others are interested in checking whether they might benefit by the same techniques.  I may write more about them in the future as I explore their limits:

• Dot plots (as a replacement for tables of descriptive statistics)
• Mosaic plots (as a replacement for tables for categorical variables -- maybe mostly for presentations)
• Matching -- possibly the integration of matching, estimation, and simulation in Zelig
• CART (classification and regression trees) for something radically different than traditional regression approaches