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CMIST Short Courses

The Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research, based at the University of Manchester, has the following short courses running in January 2015.

Details of all courses can be found at www.cmist.manchester.ac.uk/study/courses/short/. Prices vary with £140 for those from educational and charitable institutions and £195 for others (based on a 1-day course). All bookings required online (see course pages). For enquiries email [log in to unmask]

Intermediate

Sequence Analysis – 14 January 2015: 11am – 5pm Dr Morten Wahrendorf

Sequence analysis has recently experienced increasing interest in life course research and summarises a variety of techniques to analyse "sequences", for example, employment or partnership histories. Thereby, the interest is not only to describe and visualise 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.

Introduction to Bayesian Analysis – 15 - 16 January 2015: 10am – 4pm Dr Guangquan Li

Use of Bayesian methods is becoming increasingly widespread within quantitative social and health sciences, particularly for analysing data with complex structure, such as hierarchical or multilevel data. However, very few applied researchers have any formal training in Bayesian methods. This two-day course aims to introduce quantitative researchers to the basic principles of Bayesian inference and simulation-based methods for estimating Bayesian models, and to highlight some of the potential benefits that a Bayesian approach can offer. There is a large practical component to this course with time for hands-on data analysis using examples drawn mainly from the social and health sciences.

Introductory

Introduction to STATA – 21 January 2015: 10am – 4:30pm Dr James Laurence

The course provides an introductory training in STATA, a statistical package increasingly used for social research data analysis which has powerful data manipulation procedures and extensive and powerful statistical capabilities

Listing of courses for February and March 2015

Introductory

Questionnaire Design – 25 February 2015 Dr Pamela Campanelli

Multi Item Scales – 26 February 2015 Dr Pamela Campanelli

Foundation Skills for Data Analysts – 18 March 2015 Dr Laurence Lessard-Phillips

Introduction to Data Analysis 1 – 19 March 2015 Dr Sarah King-Hele

Introduction to Data Analysis 2 – 20 March 2015 Dr Sarah King-Hele

Intermediate

Structural Equation Modelling using MPlus – 10 – 12 March 2015 Professor Tarani Chandola and Dr Nick Shryane

Constructing Measures using the Rasch Model – 28 – 29 March 2015 Professor Julian Williams and Dr Maria Pampaka

Dr Jackie Carter

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