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Booking is now open for the Cathie Marsh Institute Short Courses
"Introduction to Cluster Analysis" & "Introduction to Sequence Analysis"
Introduction to Cluster Analysis<https://www.cmist.manchester.ac.uk/study/short/introductory/cluster-analysis/> - 9th February 2018
Outline
The course covers cluster analysis concepts and methods in SPSS. It is aimed at those with an interest in developing practical skills to implement clustering techniques and those with an interest in area typologies and classifications.
Course objectives
Participants will develop an understanding of clusterIng methods and procedures in SPSS. By the end of the course they will be able to carry out preliminary analysis to select and transform variables for cluster analysis, choose a clustering method, evaluate and choose cluster solutions, interpret clusters and present cluster analysis results. Hierarchical and non-hierarchical cluster analysis will be applied to 2011 Census local area data to produce an area classification to group areas with similar overall population characteristics into clusters.
https://www.cmist.manchester.ac.uk/study/short/introductory/cluster-analysis/
Introduction to Sequence Analysis<https://www.cmist.manchester.ac.uk/study/short/introductory/sequence-analysis/> - 1st February 2018
Outline
Sequence analysis has recently experienced increasing interest in life course research and summarizes a variety of techniques to analyse whole "sequences", for example, employment or partnership histories. The interest, hereby, is not only to describe and visualize whole sequences, but also to compare and regroup similar sequences into clusters, which in turn can be used within other methods (e.g. as independent variable in regression analyses). The course provides a basic introduction into sequence analysis, including its theoretical implication within life course research, and the practical skills required to conduct sequences analysis with Stata.
Course objectives
The course has two objectives:
First, the course introduces the general theoretical idea of sequences analysis and illustrates which kind of questions can be investigated by its mean within life course research.
Second, the course provides a practical introduction into sequence analysis based on Stata, focusing on describing and visualising sequences and on methods to compare and regroup sequences into clusters.
https://www.cmist.manchester.ac.uk/study/short/introductory/sequence-analysis/
Please also see our full range of Cathie Marsh Institute Short Courses<http://www.cmist.manchester.ac.uk/study/short/list/> for 2017-2018.
We look forward to seeing you soon.
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