2012 List of Summer Statistics and Methods Courses

Here is my 2012 compendium of summer stats and methods courses around the world. Multiple programs at the same university or under the aegis of the same sponsor are shaded in color. As always, please notify me (via the link to my faculty webpage in the right-hand column) of errors, omissions, bad links, etc.

UNITED STATES/NORTH AMERICA

Location (link)	Deadline	Sessions	Topics
APA Advanced Training Inst.	...	...	...
UC Davis	3/20	5/29-6/2	Longitudinal SEM
UC Davis	..."	6/4-8	Exploratory Data Mining
Michigan State	3/27	6/11-15	Methods/Racial-Ethnic Diversity
U. Cincinnati	..."	6/18-22	Non-Linear Methods
American Statistical Assn (San Diego)	FCFS	7/28-8/2	Continuing Education programming at Joint Statistical Meetings
Ctr for the Adv of Res Methods and Analysis (CARMA)	...	...	Ongoing workshops around the world, including 5/11-19 at Wayne State Univ. (Detroit).
Ctr for Spatially Integrated Social Science			Awaiting 2012 Update to Program's Website
Claremont Grad Univ			Awaiting 2012 Update to Program's Website
Curran-Bauer Analytics (UNC)	?	6/4-8 6/11-15	Multilevel Modeling SEM
Johns Hopkins/ Bloomberg SPH	...	6/18-7/6 (course lengths vary)	Statistical and Epidemiological Techniques, Content Areas (e.g., Diabetes, HIV/AIDS)
Michigan State University			Awaiting 2012 Update to Program's Website
Muthen Mplus Courses	...	...	Short courses through the year at various locations
Oregon St.			"This year we are not going to hold a Summer Institute on Research Methodology... Please check back in early 2013 for details of our next Summer Institute."
Penn St. Univ. Summer Institute on Innovative Methods		6/21-22	Propensity Score Methods for Causal Inference
Portland St. (OR)	?	6/13-14 6/15-16 6/18-19	Multilevel Regression SEM Longitudinal
STATA Usage Workshops (here and here)	...	...	Short courses throughout year in U.S. and other countries
Statistical Horizons	...	...	Brief workshops, covering different topics, offered in Philadelphia and elsewhere
Texas A&M			Awaiting 2012 Update to Program's Website
U at Buffalo	?	5/9-11 5/14-18 5/21-25	Social Networks SEM HLM
U of Calgary (Alex Bierman)	4/23; Contact: aebierma@ucalgary.ca	5/14-18	Hierarchical, Longitudinal, and Categorical Modeling
UConn (DATIC)	*Full, Waitlist Only	6/4-8 6/11-15 6/18-20 6/25-29 7/16-20	Missing Data *Dyadic Analysis - Multilevel *HLM Dyadic Analysis - SEM SEM
UConn (Neag Sch. of Ed.)	?	5/14-15	Value-Added Modeling
U Illinois, Urbana-Cham			2011 workshops were cancelled due to low enrollment; no mention on website if 2012 courses will be offered
U Kansas "Stats Camp"	4/30 (Early Bird)	6/4-22	Twelve courses, each five days, including SEM (basic and longit.), multilevel, meta-analysis, categorical, "R," testing, networks, missing data
U Kentucky "LINKS Ctr"	5/15	6/3-8	Social Network Analysis
U Maryland		6/6-8	Introduction to Bayesian Statistical Modeling
UMass Amherst	?	5/30-6/1 6/4-7 6/11-15 6/19-22	Social Network Analysis Developmental Trajectories HLM Intensive Longitudinal
U Michigan Ann Arbor (ICPSR)	5/1 (for discounts)	6/18-7/13, 7/16-8/10 & shorter	Intro, Regression, Multivariate, SEM, Bayes, Network Analysis, Longitudinal, Latent Class, "R," ...
U Michigan Ann Arbor (SPH)	6/1	7/8-27 (1 & 3 wk courses)	Biostat, Epi, Logistic Regression, Meta-Analysis, Clinical Trials, Survival Analysis, Content Areas (e.g., Cancer, Infectious, Genetic)...
U Michigan Ann Arbor (SRC)	5/25	6/4-29, 7/2-27 (+ 1, 2, 8 wks)	Questionnaire Design, Sampling, Data Analysis, Qualitative, Focus Groups, Interviewing, Experimental/ Quasi-Experimental...
U Minnesota (SPH)	?	5/21-6/8	5-day courses (+/- a few days) mainly public health content courses, but some methods courses (e.g., GIS, epidemiology, qualitative analysis)
U San Francisco	Contact Tom Stillman: stillmant@usfca.edu		Math 101 - Elementary Stat Math 106 - Quantitative Methods in Business
U Texas (Statistics & Scientific Computation)	"Registration is now open. Students receive a 60% discount and groups can receive a 20% discount off the regular $500 course fee. "	5/21-24	"Short courses are offered at all levels including introductory statistics, software, and statistical methods and applications." Includes SEM.
U Washington (SISMID)	6/11 (Early Bird)	6/9-25	Statistical/methodological and public-health content courses (many w/ mathematical modeling)
Western Psychol Association  (San Francisco)		4/26-29	Multiple-Group SEM, Latent Class Analysis, Item Response Theory, Multivariate Analysis

FCFS = First Come, First Served

EUROPE

Location(link)	Deadline	Sessions	Topics
Ctr for the Adv of Res Methods and Analysis (CARMA)	...	...	Ongoing series of workshops around the world
Essex UK	5/1 (or else lateness surcharge)	7/9-20 7/23-8/3 8/6-17	Numerous statistical, methodological, and applied courses
European Ed. Prog. in Epi. (Florence, It)	5/5	6/18-21 6/25-7/13	Competing Risks Analysis Epidemiology
German Soc Sci Infrastructure Services (GESIS) Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences	"Some courses are already fully booked. Early application also means more affordable accommodation..."	8/9-25 for Summer School (next cell)	Workshops throughout the year, including the 1st Summer School in Survey Methodology
Modern Methods in Biostat & Epi (Italy)	5/31	6/3 6/4-9 6/4-9 6-10 6/11-16 6/11-16 6/17 6/18-23	Stata: Intro,Meta-Analysis,Table Biostat, Applied Regression Epi, Logistic Reg., Missing Data Stata-Related Courses Epi, Longitudinal, Health Eval Biostat, Survival Stata Survival Causal Inf., Clin. Trial, Cancer
Muthen Mplus Courses	...	...	Short courses through the year at various locations
National Centre for Research Methods (UK)	...	...	Ongoing courses (including brief ones)
Oslo (Norway) Summer School	?	7/23-27 7/30-8/3	Mostly Political Science courses, but also specialized methods courses
PLS School		Brief workshops all year	Topics focusing on Partial Least Squares (courses mainly in Germany)
U Calabria (SDIPA) Italy	?	7/16-29 7/23-27 (also Sept courses)	Res. Methods, Econometric Time Series, Panel, Multivariate
U Sheffield UK "Figure It Out"	?	6/25 6/26 6/29	Multiple RegressionSPSS Multilevel Modeling/SPSS SEM/Mplus
U Ulster (N. Ireland UK)	Contact: Sharon Adams lifelonglearning @ulster.ac.uk		Awaiting 2012 Update to Program's Website
Utrecht Univ. Netherlands (Each course has link in right-hand column)		8/13-17 8/20-24 8/27-29 ...	Intro SEM with Mplus Advanced Mplus New Mplus version 7 (with Bengt Muthen)
XL Stat			Brief courses in Paris & U.S.

Link to Google Translate to figure out phrases in languages other than one's own.


OTHER LOCATIONS

Location (link)	Deadline	Sessions	Topics
U of Melbourne	?	7/2-5	Bayesian and frequentist path analysis and SEM

Welcome to QM I for Fall 2011. In anticipation of tomorrow's opening class, I've collected links for my lecture notes on the topics we will cover (asterisked [*] pages are from my undergraduate research-methods class). These are shown below:

Introductory ideas (here and here)

Units of analysis*

Sampling*

Types of Measures*

Percentiles, histograms, and distributions

Descriptive statistics:* Central tendency (mean, median, and mode) and spread (standard deviation); moments of a distribution; and z-scores (here, here, and here)

Probability (here and here)

Correlation and significance-testing

t-tests

Chi-square

Non-parametric statistics

Statistical power

Confidence intervals

This year, I've tried to compile my annual list of summer statistics and methodology programs in tabular form (HTML table formatting, though not exactly welcoming, didn't look prohibitively difficult!). This format should allow readers to see different programs' deadline and session dates at a glance. Also, I'm creating separate tables for the U.S./North America and Europe. As always, please notify me (via the link to my faculty webpage in the right-hand column) of errors, omissions, bad links, etc.

UNITED STATES/NORTH AMERICA

Location (link)	Deadline	Sessions	Topics
APA Advanced Training Inst.	...	...	...
U Cincinnati	4/6	6/20-24	Nonlinear Methods
Michigan St U	3/30	6/20-24	Diverse Racial/Ethnic Groups
UC Davis	3/30	6/20-24	SEM/Longitudinal
UC Davis	3/30	6/27-7/1	Exploratory Data Mining
American Statistical Assn(Miami Beach)	FCFS	7/30-8/4	Continuing Education Programming at Joint Statistical Meetings
Ctr for the Adv of Res Methods and Analysis (CARMA)	...	...	Ongoing Workshops Around the World, Including 5/16-21 at Virginia Commonwealth Univ.
Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science	3/31	6/19-24 7/10-15	Spatial Regression, Penn State Multilevel Model, UC Santa Barb
Claremont Grad Univ	?	August 19-22	Evaluation and Applied Research Methods
Curran-Bauer Analytics (UNC)	?	5/23-27 6/6-10	SEM Multilevel Linear Models
DATIC (UConn)	All full; waitlist only	6/13-17 6/20-24 6/27-7/1	HLM SEM Dyadic Analysis
Johns Hopkins/ Bloomberg SPH	...	6/13-7/1 (courses of varying length)	Statistical and Epidemiological Techniques, Content Areas (e.g., Tobacco, HIV/AIDS)
Michigan State University Added 6/1	?	7/11-15	Dyadic data analysis
Muthen Mplus Courses	...	...	Short courses through the year at various locations
Oregon St.	?	7/12-15	Multilevel/Longitudinal Models using Stata (first two days); Longitudinal Modeling using Mplus (last two days)
Portland St. (OR)	?	6/13-14 6/15 6/16-17 6/18	Missing Data Power Analysis HLM "R" (and "lessR")
STATA Usage Workshops	...	...	Short courses throughout year in U.S. and other countries
Statistical Horizons	...	...	Brief workshops, covering different topics, offered in Philadelphia and elsewhere
Texas A&M Updated 4/8	4/ 29 (Early-bird)	5/22-27	Intermediate Stats, HLM, Item Response Theory, Meta-Analysis, SEM, Qualitative Analysis
U at Buffalo	?	5/12-13 5/16-20 5/23-27	Social Networks SEM HLM
U Illinois, Urbana-Cham	5/20 (or earlier if filled up)	6/6-9 6/10	Model Based Measurement and Computerized Adaptive Testing Mixed Methods
U Kansas "Stats Camp"	Different for CE credits, student awards...	6/6-24	Nine courses, each five days, including SEM (basic and long.), multilevel, meta-analysis, categorical, "R," testing, networks, missing data
U Kentucky "LINKS Ctr"	5/15	6/5-10	Social Network Analysis
UMass Amherst	?	6/1-3 6/6-8 6/13-17 6/28-7/1	Social Network Analysis Developmental Trajectories HLM Diary Data/HLM
U Michigan Ann Arbor (ICPSR)	5/1*	6/20-7/15, 7/18-8/12 & shorter	Intro, Regression, Multivariate, SEM, Bayes, Network Analysis, Longitudinal, Latent Class, "R," ...
U Michigan Ann Arbor (SPH)	6/1	7/10-29 (1 & 3 wk courses)	Biostat, Epi, Logistic Regression, Meta-Analysis, Clinical Trials, Survival Analysis, Content Areas (e.g., Cancer, Infectious, Genetic, Injury/Violence)...
U Michigan Ann Arbor (SRC)	5/23	6/6-7/1, 7/5-7/29 (+ 1, 2, 8 wks)	Questionnaire Design, Sampling, Data Analysis, Qualitative, Focus Groups, Interviewing, Program Evaluation, Longitudinal...
U Minnesota (SPH) Added 3/15	?	5/23-6/10	Mainly  public health content courses, but some methods courses (e.g., GIS, participatory epidem., qualitative analysis, secondary/census data)
U Washington (SISMID) Added 3/24	5/16 (Early-bird)	6/13-29	Statistical/methodological and public-health content courses (many w/ mathematical modeling)

*Deadline date to receive discount; FCFS = First Come, First Served

EUROPE

Location(link)	Deadline	Sessions	Topics
Ctr for the Adv of Res Methods and Analysis (CARMA)	...	...	Ongoing Series of Workshops Around the World
Essex UK	6/1	7/11-22 7/25-8/5 8/8-19	Numerous statistical, methodological, and applied courses
European Ed. Prog. in Epi. (Florence, It)	5/6	6-20-24 6/27-7/15	Genetic Epidem. Epidemiology
London School of Economics	...	7/25-8/12	Survey Methods and Analysis
National Centre for Research Methods (UK)	...	...	Ongoing courses (including brief ones)
Oslo (Norway) Summer School	?	7/25-29 8/1-5	Mostly Political Science courses, but also specialized methods courses
Modern Methods in Biostat & Epi (Parma, Italy)	5/31	6/5 6/6-11 6/6-11 6-12 6-13/18 6/13-18	Stata: Intro,Meta-Analysis,Tables Biostat, Regression, Survival Epi, Causal, Logistic Regression Stata: Intro, Survival, Missing Epi, Longitudinal, Health Eval Biostat, Clin Trials, Ev-Based
Muthen Mplus Courses	...	...	Short courses through the year at various locations
U Calabria (SDIPA) Italy	?	7/18-22 7/25-29	SEM Experimental Design
U Sheffield UK "Figure It Out" Added 4/8	?	6/29 6/30 7/1	Data Mgt/SPSS Multilevel Modeling/SPSS SEM/Mplus
U Ulster (N. Ireland UK)Added 7/22	Contact: Sharon Adams lifelonglearning @ulster.ac.uk	8/22-9/2	Regression, Factor Analysis, General Linear Model, SEM, Latent Growth Models, Latent Class Analysis, and Multilevel Modelling
XL Stat (Paris)Added 7/11	?	9/26-28	Partial Least Squares

OTHER LOCATIONS

Location (link)	Deadline	Sessions	Topics
Hyderabad (India, IBS) Added 4/21	By 5/20 (10% off) or 5/30	6/2-4	SEM

Today, we'll be covering confidence intervals (CI). We've alluded to the basic idea in terms of margin-of-error in a political poll, but today, we'll have a more formal treatment of CI's. Many researchers feel CI's are the best way to present results, rather than null-hypothesis significance testing. CI's have taken hold in many fields, but are only slowly catching on in the social sciences. Here are links to my previous postings on the topic.

Primary lecture notes on confidence intervals

General formula for confidence intervals and a song

This week we'll be covering statistical power (also known as power analysis). Power is not a statistical technique like correlation, t-test, and chi-square. Rather, power involves designing your study (particularly getting a large enough sample size) so that you can use correlations, t-tests, etc., more effectively. The core concept of power, like so much else, goes back to the distinction between the population and a sample. When there truly is a basis in the population for rejecting the null hypothesis (e.g., a non-zero correlation, a non-zero difference between means), we want to increase the likelihood that we reject the null from the analysis of our sample. In other words, we want to be able to pronounce a result significant, when warranted. Here are links to my previous entries on statistical power.

Introductory lecture

Why a powerful design is needed: The population may truly have a non-zero correlation, for example, but due to random sampling error, your sample may not; plus, some songs on statistical power!

Remember that there's also the opposite kind of error: The population truly has absolutely no correlation, but again due to random sampling error, you draw a sample that gives the impression of a non-zero correlation.

How to plan a study using power considerations

Here are direct links to some old chi-square blog postings. This one discusses the reversibility error and how properly to read an SPSS printout of a chi-square analysis. The other one illustrates the null hypothesis for chi-square analyses in terms of equal pie-charts.

The following photo of the board, containing chi-square tips, was added on November 15, 2011 (thanks to Selen).

Plus a song (added November 1, 2011):

One Degree is Free

Lyrics by Alan Reifman

(May be sung to the tune of “Rock and Roll is Free,” Ben Harper)

Look at your, chi-square table,

If it is, 2-by-2,

One cell can be filled freely,

While the others take their cue,

The formula that you can use,

Come on, from the columns, lose one,

And one, as well, from the rows,

Multiply the two, isn’t this fun?

One degree is free, in your table,

With con-tin-gen-cy, in your table,

One degree is free, in your table,

…free in your table,

…free in your table,

Say, your table is larger,

Maybe it’s 2-by-4,

Multiply one by three,

3 df are in store,

The df’s are essential,

To check significance,

Go to your chi-square table,

And find the right instance,

Three degrees are free, in your table,

With con-tin-gen-cy, in your table,

Three degrees are free, in your table,

…free in your table,

…free in your table,

(Guitar Solo)

As we cover t-tests, beyond the introductory notes from my "Basic Statistics Page," we'll be looking at older blog posts here and here.