December

Title: Missing Values in Longitudinal Data Analysis
Host: Department of Statistics & CSTAT
Presenter: Dr. Roderick Little, Dept.of Biostatistics, U of M
Date: Tuesday December 01, 2009
Time: 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Location: 204 Natural Science Bldg
Registration Begins: Monday October 19, 2009
Description:
Lecture on missing data and solutions.

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Title: Mixed Model Analysis of Research Data
Host: CSTAT
Presenter: Dr. Robert Tempelman
Date: Friday December 04, 2009
Time: 01:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Location: 402 Computer Center
Registration Begins: Monday September 07, 2009
Description:
Learn more about how to account for random effects in order to obtain correct standard errors.

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January

Title: The Nuts and Bolts of Evaluation
Host: Community Evaluation & Research Center
Presenter: Laurie Van Egeren, Ph.D.
Date: Friday January 15, 2010
Time: 01:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Location: Kellogg Center Room 6
Description:
This session will focus on how to successfully navigate the journey from responding to an evaluation request for proposals, through identifying the resources required to conduct an evaluation, to creating a realistic evaluation budget.


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Title: STATA: Introduction & Basic Data Analysis
Host: CSTAT
Presenter: Dr. Tenko Raykov
Date: Friday January 22, 2010
Time: 01:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Location: 106B Wells Hall
Registration Begins: Monday December 07, 2009
Description:
A number of software facilities for data management are discussed and illustrated on empirical data.

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Title: Developing an Evaluation Plan for Grants
Host: Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies
Presenter: VPRGS
Date: Thursday January 28, 2010
Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Location: Life Sciences, Conference B205
Description:
Attend this workshop series to enhance your skills in securing a grant for your research project.


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Title: SPSS: Introduction & Basic Data Analysis
Host: CSTAT
Presenter: Dr. Sandra Herman
Date: Friday January 29, 2010
Time: 01:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Location: 106B Wells Hall
Registration Begins: Monday December 07, 2009
Description:
Learn more about the statistical software SPSS 17.

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February

Title: Multi-Dimensional Scaling
Host: CSTAT
Presenter: Dr. William Jacoby
Date: Friday February 12, 2010
Time: 01:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Location: 106B Wells Hall
Registration Begins: Monday January 11, 2010
Description:
Learn more about multidimensional scaling methods.

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Title: Qualitative Analysis
Host: CSTAT
Presenter: Dr. Steven Gold
Date: Friday February 19, 2010
Time: 01:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Location: 106B Wells Hall
Registration Begins: Monday January 11, 2010
Description:
Learn more about theories and methods of qualitative field research.

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Title: Tips and Tricks for Research Grants
Host: Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies
Presenter: VPRGS
Date: Thursday February 25, 2010
Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Location: International Center, Spartan Room C
Description:
Attend this workshop series to enhance your skills in securing a grant for your research project.

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Title: Exploratory Factor Analysis
Host: CSTAT
Presenter: Dr. Richard DeShon
Date: Friday February 26, 2010
Time: 01:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Location: 106B Wells Hall
Registration Begins: Monday January 11, 2010
Description:
Covers common factor and principle component approaches to modeling covariance matrices, common rotation methods and methods for computing scores on latent factors.

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March

Title: Longitudinal Models
Host: CSTAT
Presenter: Dr. Ryan Bowles
Date: Friday March 19, 2010
Time: 01:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Location: 106B Wells Hall
Registration Begins: Monday February 01, 2010
Description:
Discusses methods for examining longitudinal change using SEM with attention to measurement across time through examination of metric invariance.

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Title: After Submission of your Research Grant
Host: Vice President of Research and Graduate Studies
Presenter: VPRGS
Date: Thursday March 25, 2010
Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Location: CAS Bldg, Deeb Room 191
Description:
Attend this workshop series to enhance your skills in securing a grant for your research project.

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Title: Hierarchical Linear Models
Host: CSTAT
Presenter: Dr. Kimberley Maier
Date: Friday March 26, 2010
Time: 01:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Location: 106B Wells Hall
Registration Begins: Monday February 01, 2010
Description:
Covers research benefits from HLM, illustration of a two-level HLM, and how one can analyze multilevel data.

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April

Title: Multi-Level Modeling: Intermediate & Advanced Applications
Host: CSTAT
Presenter: Dr. Tenko Raykov
Date: Friday April 02, 2010
Time: 01:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Location: 106B Wells Hall
Registration Begins: Monday February 01, 2010
Description:
Methods for interval estimation of the intraclass correlation coefficient and multilevel methods for analyzing longitudinal data are discussed with the use of Mplus and LISREL.

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Title: Time Series Analysis
Host: CSTAT
Presenter: Dr. Michael Colaresi
Date: Friday April 09, 2010
Time: 01:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Location: 106B Wells Hall
Registration Begins: Monday February 01, 2010
Description:
Covers techniques to analyze time serial processes and data. Example code and demonstrations will utilize R.

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Title: Meta-Analysis
Host: CSTAT
Presenter: Spyros Konstantopoulos, Ph.D.
Date: Friday April 16, 2010
Time: 01:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Location: 106B Wells Hall
Registration Begins: Monday February 01, 2010
Description:
Discusses the early stages of synthesizing research across a sample of studies such as data collection, coding, and data evaluation.

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Title: Models for Corner Solution Responses
Host: CSTAT
Presenter: Dr. Jeffrey Wooldridge
Date: Friday April 23, 2010
Time: 01:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Location: 106B Wells Hall
Registration Begins: Monday February 01, 2010
Description:
Summarizes different methods for modeling response variables that are continuous over a wide range of values.

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Missing Values in Longitudinal Data Analysis

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