Apologies for cross-postings and to those of you have seen the adverts elsewhere. This is just a reminder about two short courses we are running at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK in April and May. ALL OUR SHORT COURSES INVOLVE HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE OF COMPUTER SOFTWARE USED WITHIN OUR DISTANCE LEARNING MSc PROGRAMME IN INDUSTRIAL DATA MODELLING. ======================================================================== 18-19 April 2000 Principal Components Analysis and Regression (presented by Jon Denne) A 2-day course covering the exploration of multivariate data, principal components analysis and principal components regression. 4-5 May 2000 Classification (presented by Jon Denne) A 2-day course covering cluster analysis, and the building and validation of discriminant models. More information can be obtained from myself and/or found on our Web site at http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk/Courses/MScIDM/ ======================================================================== **Cost** The fee for each of these 2-day courses is £400 (VAT free), to include registration, course materials, certificate of attendance, and coffee, lunch and tea each day. **Availability** Numbers for this course are limited to 16. If you would like to register for either of these courses please contact myself in the first instance, quoting your name, company, address, telephone number, fax number and Email address. We have negotiated reduced rates with three local hotels (Best Western Belmont House Hotel, Jarvis Grand Hotel and Holiday Inn). Please let me know if you would like more information. Feel free to pass this information to whoever you think might be interested. These short courses have been developed from material which forms the basis of our distance learning MSc/PGDip/PGCert/CPD programme in Industrial Data Modelling; IT IS POSSIBLE TO UPGRADE ANY SHORT COURSE ATTENDANCE TO A FULL MODULE CREDIT AND TO REGISTER FOR THE INDUSTRIAL DATA MODELLING PROGRAMME at a later date. If you would like more information just let me know. All the best. Colin. ======================================================================== Colin James Programme Director - Industrial Data Modelling Faculty of Computing Sciences and Engineering De Montfort University Phone ............ (+44) (0)116-250-6147 The Gateway Fax .............. (+44) (0)116-250-6114 Leicester LE1 9BH Email(Personal) ........... [log in to unmask] UK Email(IDM) .......... [log in to unmask] http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk/Courses/MScIDM/ ======================================================================== %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%