Further Tinkering with Model of USN&WR Law School Rankings

Thanks to Paul Varriale, who caught an error in the data I'd used, I've slightly edited my model of U.S. News & World Report's law school rankings. (In place of the overall scores that USN&WR in fact assigned to law schools, I'd somehow plugged in some slightly erroneous numbers.) Happily, the change improves the fit between USN&WR's scores and the scores generated by the model. It modestly changes some of the results I reported earlier, however. Rather than laying out all the changes, here, I plan to simply go back and edit my prior posts as necessary, adding a note and a link to this post when I do.

Earlier posts about the 2007 USN&WR law school rankings:

• Change to U.S. News Law School Rankings Methodology
  
• "Financial Aid" Revised in U.S. News Methodology
  
• How USN&WR Counts Faculty for Rankings
  
• Whence Come the LSATs and GPAs Used in the Rankings?
  
• Gains and Losses Due to USN&WR's Use of Reported Median LSATs and GPAs
  
• How to Model USN&WR's Law School Rankings
  
• Why to Model USN&WR's Law School Rankings
  
• The ABA and USN&WR's Law School Rankings
  
• Accuracy of the Model of USN&WR's Law School Rankings
  
• Z-Scores in Model of USN&WR's Law School Rankings