The notion of statistics WITHOUT ASSUMPTIONS¹ is somewhat misleading.
I understand that the authors want to reach an audience who are likely to
have been told that procedures for dealing with non-metric data are
assumption free. BUT is it desirable to perpetuate the myth of assumption
free¹ in the title of the course?
Why not just title it: Statistical procedures for categorical & ordinal data
Best
Diana
On 5/11/07 09:58, "Pierre Walthery"
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> See http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/courses/external/2007-2008/
>
>
> Non-Parametric Statistics Dec. 11th, 2007, under the title 'Statistics
> Without Assumptions' - this intermediate course offers details of
> chi-squared and some alternatives for ordinal data, but also a wider
> coverage helping you decide when to use non-parametric statistics at all.
>
> Qualitative Comparative Analysis
> Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) use a systematic approach to
> thinking about the cases in your small to medium N study. NVIVO software
> is used at an intermediate level. Suitable for anyone, including
> Case-Study Researchers. Allows for mixed-methods research via the NVIVO
> "Casebook".
> Offered as a one-day workshop on 3/12/2007 or 9/06/2008.
>
> Computerised Qualitative Analysis with NVIVO
> This workshop covers the annotation and coding of qualitative data using
> NVIVO software. We introduce some qualitative interpretation techniques,
> teach how you do the coding and annotation of data in NVIVO, how
> demographic and opinion data from surveys are mixed with interviews, how
> to code focus group data, and how to analyse photos within NVIVO. Several
> sample data sets are provided.
>
> *****Computerised Qualitative Analysis Nov. 9th 2007 is nearly full but not
> quite*** Next offering is in 2008
>
> Regression Statistics for Labour Research
> We cover descriptive statistics for wage data; employment probabilities;
> how do a regression analysis; and (briefly) selectivity adjustment for
> wage equations. We thus allow the non-employed to remain in your sample
> whilst making wage predictions. We use SPSS, so a previous exposure to
> this software is advisable. Intermediate level of difficulty.
> Workshop is one day, 7/12/2007.
>
> Course Tutors Wendy Olsen and Pierre Walthery.
> Apologies for any cross-postings
>
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