**Final call: There are still a few places and a few bursaries available
**
Finite population survey sampling inference - a statistical modelling
approach
June masterclass in social statistics hosted by the Lancaster-Warwick ESRC
National Centre for Research Methods Node
Date: 27th - 28th June 2005
Location: Lancaster University
Presenter: Professor Murray Aitkin, Department of Psychology University of
Melbourne. Australia
This course takes a new approach to inference in sample surveys, and
reconciles the standard finite population survey-sampling approach with
the statistical modelling approach to data analysis. Over a series of four
lectures, concepts such as the empirical likelihood and the likelihood
interval will be introduced. This will then be extended into the Bayesian
context, dealing with such problems as weighting in sample surveys.
Practical demonstrations will be presented to illustrate the techniques.
There is a discount for 2004/5 members of SSM
Further details, including fee structure and timetable, are available from
the website:
<http://www.cas.lancs.ac.uk/masterclasses/finite.html>http://www.cas.lancs.
ac.uk/masterclasses/finite.html
A registration form is also available on the web:
<http://www.cas.lancs.ac.uk/masterclasses/extregistration.php>http://www.ca
s.lancs.ac.uk/masterclasses/extregistration.php
Professor Murray Aitkin holds the PhD and DSc in mathematical statistics
from Sydney University. He was senior lecturer in statistics in the School
of Behavioural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney in 1969-76 before
being appointed to Lancaster as SSRC Professorial Fellow in Statistics
Applied to the Social Sciences 1976-79. He was the Foundation Director of
the Centre for Applied Statistics at Lancaster 1979-87, and has since then
held teaching, research and consulting positions at Tel Aviv University,
the Australian National University, the University of Western Australia,
the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, the Educational Testing Service and
the American Institutes for Research. He is now Professorial Fellow in the
Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne.
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