The Royal Statistical Society Professional Development Centre
The Royal Statistical Society Professional Development Centre are offering courses that may be of interest to you and your colleagues.
Multi-level models by Dr Damon Berridge on 22 - 23 April 2009, London
Will highlight the problems that occur when the hierarchical nature of many social surveys is ignored in routine statistical analysis. The classical "variance components" ANOVA model will be described and extended to multi-level model.
For: For social science researchers and research students and for data analysts from government, health and medicine.
Bookings being taken by the Post Graduate Statistics Centre, University of Lancaster
Missing data by Dr James Carpenter & Prof Mike Kenward on 26 - 27 May 2009, London
Will help participants develop an appreciation of the issues that arise when data are missing; to explain common jargon; to develop an intuition for the shortcomings of simple methods for coping with missing data; to develop an intuition for direct model-based, multiple imputation-based and weighting approaches for the analysis of partially observed data and explore relevant software; to understand the importance of sensitivity analysis and how it can be carried out; and to learn from each other by discussing experiences.
For: Applied statisticians from most backgrounds (e.g. medical, social sciences), statistically able researchers (e.g. epidemiologists, social scientists , and economists).
Price: From £370 plus vat.
An introduction to time series forecasting by Prof Robert Sollis on 2 - 3 June 2009, London
This offers an introduction to time series forecasting. The course will explain how to forecast time series using univariate and vector statistical time series models, and how to evaluate the forecasts obtained to help decide on the best forecasting specifications to be used in practice.
For: Applied statisticians and econometricians wanting a detailed introduction for forecasting using parametric time series models. This includes researchers working in academia, banking/finance, consulting, health service, marketing, the ONS or elsewhere.
Price: From £370 plus vat.
An introduction to R & S-Plus by Andrew Jack on 4 June 2009, London
Aims to give a basic introduction to R & S-Plus for people with no or little previous experience.
For: Anyone who wishes to visualise and/or analyse numerical data.
Price: From £195 plus vat.
Multilevel modeling by Prof Harvey Goldstein & Prof Fiona Steele on 4 - 5 June 2009, London
Designed to give participants a solid grounding in the theory and application of multilevel models. The course will be based around theoretical sessions followed by "hands-on" sessions illustrating the theoretical concepts.
For: Statisticians and quantitative researchers with an interest in the analysis of hierarchically structured data. Previous participants have included university researchers from the social sciences, medicine and public health and government statisticians.
Price: From £370 plus vat.
Statisticians in a Six Sigma organisation by Roland Caulcutt on 17 June 2009, London
Roland Caulcutt has trained hundreds of blackbelts and greenbelts in several large organizations. Using a business simulation, he will demonstrate how the improvements are achieved and how statisticians can effectively contribute.
For: Statisticians employed by larger organisations.
Price: From £195 plus vat
The programme is being continually added to and you can see the most up-to-date offering at www.rss.org.uk/courses.
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