Tuesday, March 13, 2012

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)DeadlineSessionsTopics
APA Advanced Training Inst..........
UC Davis3/205/29-6/2Longitudinal SEM
UC Davis...6/4-8Exploratory Data Mining
Michigan State3/276/11-15Methods/Racial-Ethnic Diversity
U. Cincinnati..."6/18-22Non-Linear Methods
American Statistical Assn (San Diego)FCFS7/28-8/2Continuing 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 Only6/4-8
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.)
?5/14-15Value-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)6/4-22Twelve courses, each five days, including SEM (basic and longit.), multilevel, meta-analysis, categorical, "R," testing, networks, missing data
U Kentucky
"LINKS Ctr"
5/156/3-8Social Network Analysis
U Maryland
6/6-8Introduction 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)
5/256/4-29,
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 FranciscoContact 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)
6/9-25Statistical/methodological and public-health content courses (many w/ mathematical modeling)
Western Psychol Association 
(San Francisco)

4/26-29Multiple-Group SEM, Latent Class Analysis, Item Response Theory, Multivariate Analysis




FCFS = First Come, First Served

EUROPE
Location(link)DeadlineSessionsTopics
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)
5/56/18-21
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)5/316/3
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 yearTopics 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)DeadlineSessionsTopics
U of Melbourne?7/2-5Bayesian and frequentist path analysis and SEM




Wednesday, August 24, 2011

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

Sunday, March 06, 2011

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)DeadlineSessionsTopics
APA Advanced Training Inst..........
U Cincinnati 4/66/20-24Nonlinear Methods                    
Michigan St U3/306/20-24Diverse Racial/Ethnic Groups
UC Davis3/306/20-24SEM/Longitudinal
UC Davis3/306/27-7/1Exploratory Data Mining
American Statistical Assn(Miami Beach)FCFS7/30-8/4Continuing 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 3/316/19-24
7/10-15
Spatial Regression, Penn State
Multilevel Model, UC Santa Barb
Claremont Grad Univ?August 19-22Evaluation and Applied Research Methods
Curran-Bauer Analytics (UNC)?5/23-27
6/6-10
SEM
Multilevel Linear Models
DATIC
(UConn)
All full; waitlist only6/13-17
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
?7/11-15Dyadic data analysis
Muthen Mplus Courses......Short courses through the year at various locations
Oregon St. ?7/12-15Multilevel/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) 5/22-27Intermediate 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-Cham5/20 (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...6/6-24Nine courses, each five days, including SEM (basic and long.), multilevel, meta-analysis, categorical, "R," testing, networks, missing data
U Kentucky
"LINKS Ctr"
5/156/5-10Social 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)
5/236/6-7/1,
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)
6/13-29Statistical/methodological and public-health content courses (many w/ mathematical modeling)
*Deadline date to receive discount; FCFS = First Come, First Served

EUROPE
Location(link)DeadlineSessionsTopics
Ctr for the Adv of Res Methods and Analysis (CARMA)......Ongoing Series of Workshops Around the World
Essex UK                   6/17/11-22
7/25-8/5
8/8-19
Numerous statistical, methodological, and applied courses
European Ed. Prog. in Epi.
(Florence, It)
5/66-20-24
6/27-7/15
Genetic Epidem.
Epidemiology
London School of Economics...7/25-8/12Survey 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)5/316/5
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
8/22-9/2Regression, Factor Analysis, General Linear Model, SEM, Latent Growth Models, Latent Class Analysis, and Multilevel Modelling
XL Stat (Paris)Added 7/11?9/26-28Partial Least Squares

OTHER LOCATIONS
Location (link)DeadlineSessionsTopics
Hyderabad (India, IBS)
Added 4/21
By 5/20 (10% off) or 5/306/2-4SEM

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

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

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

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

Wednesday, November 03, 2010

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)

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

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.