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Dear sigma Network, If you are an SPSS user, you may be interested in the event below. ASSESS is an independent, free-to-join user group for SPSS that holds occasional meetings and events: http://www.spssusers.co.uk/aboutassess.html Please address any queries directly to the ASSESS event organisers. David ________________________________ The SPSS users group (ASSESS) is organising a day of two one-day courses using IBM SPSS Statistics together with five user presentations and a users clinic comprise a one-day IBM SPSS Statistics users (ASSESS) conference. It will be held on Friday 10th November 2017 at the University of York. One one day course will introduce IBM SPSS Statistics to complete beginners to enable users to get started from scratch. The other one-day course will show uses of k-means cluster analysis on geospatial data using demographics. A one day user talks session of five user presentations on Exploratory Factor Analysis, Clustering of local authority data and survey analysis using databases together with a user clinic will run in parallel through the day with courses for beginners to SPSS and on Clustering including an application to derive a deprivation index. The day of user presentations comprises a morning session presenting three case studies showing applications to in IBM SPSS Statistics and an afternoon session featuring a recorded webinar followed by a data management session and a question and answer session where an expert panel will answer questions raised by delegates regarding IBM SPSS Statistics. The recorded webinar will be a plenary talk on using IBM SPSS STATISTICS to analyse items from surveys using item response theory. Delegates may choose to attend a single morning users session or workshop and/or a single afternoon users session or workshop. Come along to learn more about current and upcoming uses of IBM SPSS Statistics including the performing of statistical analyses in fields of applications. Learn when these models should be used, how to implement statistical routines in IBM SPSS Statistics using real data to make policy decisions, problems associated with their use and how to interpret and understand output to identify client behaviour. See software demonstrations, share experiences with other users and plan for future meetings. Coffee breaks are included. Lunch is also included if attending both a morning AND afternoon event. Further details (including a booking form) are available at http://www.spssusers.co.uk/Events/2017/index.html. The meeting contact is Peter Watson ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>). Peter Watson MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit 15 Chaucer Road Cambridge CB2 7EF Telephone: +44 (0) 1223 355294 x801 or +44 (0) 1223 273712 (direct) Fax +44 (0) 1223) 359062