Dear all: We might have some free places for the following one-day courses *** July 17 Structural Equation Modeling: Theory and Practice (Peter Bentler, UCLA) Basic concepts of statistical inference for causal effects in experiments and observational studies (Donald Rubin, Harvard University) *** July 22 General Latent Variable Modeling Using Mplus Version 3 (Bengt Muthen, UCLA) Latent Class Regression Analysis (Jeroen K. Vermunt, Tilburg University) Item Response Analysis with ConQuest (Mark Wilson,University of California, Berkeley) The courses accompany the Conference of the Society for Multivariate Analysis in the Bahavioral Sciences (SMABS) but may be booked separately at 80 Euro each. Until the end of May, there is also the opportunity to register a last-minute poster. Abstracts of the courses and detailed information on the Conference may be found at www.smabs.org (for the courses, please click on "Program" and then on "Workshops"). Ivailo Partchev University of Jena Germany