This short course is designed to provide graduate students with basic concepts to facilitate the transition into their respective disciplines. Students are invited by the Graduate School. This is not an open workshop.
ICPSR - Bayesian Latent Variable Analysis This workshop will focus on a variety of commonly used latent variable techniques from the Bayesian perspective. The Bayesian paradigm is, in many ways, superior to classic techniques for estimating models with latent … Continued
ICPSR - Machine Learning for the Analysis of Text as Data Quantitative analysis of digitized text represents an exciting and challenging frontier of data science across a broad spectrum of disciplines. From the analysis of physicians' notes to identify … Continued
ICPSR - Latent Growth Curve Models (LGCM): A Structural Equation Modeling Approach A powerful method for analyzing longitudinal data is Latent Growth Curve Models (LGCM). LGCM allow each case in a sample to have individual trajectories ("latent curves" or … Continued
Social Media's Role in Survey Research The ubiquity of social media in the world today presents new opportunities and challenges when it comes to social research. This course considers the use of social media in survey research. Throughout the survey … Continued
Cognitive Interviewing: A Hands-On Approach National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health Joint Program in Survey Methodology, University of Maryland/University of Michigan Cognitive Interviewing has become a very popular method for pretesting and evaluating survey questionnaires. The current approach … Continued
Applied Spatial Regression Analysis This short course provides an introduction to the field of spatial regression modeling. When analyzing data aggregated to geographic areas (e.g., census data for counties), a fresh set of issues arise that are not present in … Continued
Applied Spatial Regression Analysis This short course provides an introduction to the field of spatial regression modeling. When analyzing data aggregated to geographic areas (e.g., census data for counties), a fresh set of issues arise that are not present … Continued
Virtual Design for Surveys: A Hands-On Approach This course focuses on how and why words, numbers, symbols and graphics independently and jointly influence answers to questions in Internet and paper surveys. It begins with theoretical background on why and … Continued
