Saturday, March 06, 2010

Here is my annual (2010) compendium of statistics and methodology workshops being offered this upcoming summer (primarily in the U.S., but also in Europe). Although details vary by program, they are generally open to graduate students, post-docs, and faculty.

APA Advanced Training Institutes (LINK):

*Structural Equation Modeling in Longitudinal Research, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, May 25-29

*Exploratory Data Mining in Behavioral Research, University of Southern California, June 14-18

*Nonlinear Methods for Psychological Science, University of Cincinnati, June 21-25

*Research Methods with Diverse Racial and Ethnic Groups, Michigan State University, East Lansing, June 21-25, 2010

American Statistical Association/Joint Statistical Meetings (Continuing Education).Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 31-August 5 (LINK, added March 15).

Calabria, Italy (Public Administration, SDIPA). Five-day workshops throughout the summer, on topics such as SEM, network analysis, and research methods (FLYER mostly in Italian; a form entirely in English is available upon request from Nino Miceli at miceli@unical.it; added April 9)

Claremont Graduate University (School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences). One-day workshops (both on-site and online) focusing on program evaluation, but also covering additional topics in research methods and statistics (LINK; added May 8).

Curran-Bauer Analytics (North Carolina). Multilevel Linear Models, May 24-28, and SEM, June 7-11. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (LINK).

Data Analysis Training Institute of Connecticut. HLM "A" June 14-18, 2010; SEM June 14-18 (sold out, waitlist being compiled); HLM "B" June 21-25; Dyadic Data Analysis June 21-25 (sold out, waitlist being compiled) (LINK).

Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis. One- and two-week courses on dozens of topics, July 12-August 20 (LINK; added March 15).

European Educational Programme in Epidemiology. Florence, Italy, June 21-July 9, "The main three week course offers in the first two weeks five general modules on epidemiological study design and statistical analysis of epidemiological data. In the third week six special modules, ranging from cancer epidemiology and fertility and pregnancy to the impact of changes of global climatic environment cover topics of current relevance for health (students can choose which modules to follow)." (LINK; added March 15).

Johns Hopkins University (Bloomberg School of Public Health). Summer Institute of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, June 14-July 2 (LINK).

London School of Economics. Survey methodology workshop, second summer term, July 26-August 13 (LINK; added April 19).

Muthen M-plus Short Courses. Baltimore and Barcelona (LINK).

National Centre for Research Methods (United Kingdom). "The 4th ESRC Research Methods Festival, organised by the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), will be held on 5-8 July 2010 at St Catherine's College, Oxford, UK" (LINK).

Norwegian School of Management, Oslo (Center for Applied Statistics).Two-day workshop with Ken Bollen on Longitudinal Modeling with Structural Equation Models, May 31-June 1 (LINK; added April 14).

Oregon State University. Summer Institute on Research Methodology, July 13-15, "2 day workshop including Introduction to Mplus and Latent Growth Curve Modeling using Mplus; one day workshop on Multilevel & Longitudinal Models using Stata" (LINK).

Oslo Summer School in Comparative Social Science Studies. August 2-6, Event History Analysis and the Life Course (LINK; added March 15).

Penn State (Methodology Center). Analysis of Longitudinal Dyadic Data, June 7-9 (LINK; added March 22)

Portland State University (Oregon). A series of two-day workshops in mid-June, on numerous topics (LINK).

Scientific Software International (SSI). Short workshops on SEM/LISREL and HLM in June and September, Chicago (LINK; see "Workshops" heading in left-hand column).

STATA Short Courses. Held all over the world, at many different times of the year, often in three-day workshops (LINK, added March 15).

Statistical Horizons. Brief workshops, covering different topics, offered in Philadelphia and elsewhere (LINK).

Summer School on Modern Methods in Biostatistics and Epidemiology. June 13-26, Cison di Valmarino, Treviso, Italy (LINK; added March 15).

Texas A&M (Educational Psychology). One-day (May 23) meta-analysis workshop; five-day workshops (May 24-28) on other topics (March 31 early-bird registration discount) (LINK).

Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). One- and two-day workshops on R statistical package, multilevel models for longitudinal data, and SEM (EQS), from June 28-July 2 (LINK; added May 18).

University at Buffalo (Sociology). Workshops of one week or shorter in May, covering SEM, HLM, and secondary analysis (LINK).

University of California, Davis (Longitudinal Research Institute). Variety of topics in longitudinal research, August 16-18 (LINK; added June 20).

University of Denver (Society for Social Work and Research Summer Quantitative Training Institutes). Social-network analysis (July 21-23) and propensity scores (July 28-30). (LINK; added June 2).

University of Illinois (Educational Psychology). Five-day and shorter workshops in June, covering multilevel modeling, mixed methods, and testing/measurement (LINK; added March 15).

University of Kansas. KU's "Stats Camp" offers several five-day workshops throughout June on numerous topics (LINK).

University of Kentucky (LINKS Center). Brief workshops on various topics pertaining to social network analysis, held from June 7-12 (LINK).

University of Maryland (Center for Integrated Latent Variable Research). Conference on "Advances in Longitudinal Methods in the Social and Behavioral Sciences," June 17-18, with June 16 all-day pre-conference short course (LINK).

University of Massachusetts-Amherst (Center for Research on Families). Five-day workshops throughout June (LINK).

University of Michigan...

ICPSR Quantitative Methods

Survey Research Center

School of Public Health -- Epidemiology

University of New Hampshire (Carsey Institute). "Using Multilevel Modeling to Analyze Longitudinal Data," June 7-9 (LINK; added May 8).

University of Texas, Austin. Wide variety of statistical topics, May 24-27 (priority given to people associated with UT) (LINK; added May 8).

Virginia Commonwealth University (CARMA). Three-day courses on a wide range of topics, offered both in Richmond, VA, and Detroit (Wayne State) (LINK).