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LISA Statistics Short Course: Survey Design and Analysis
(Academic)
LISA SHORT COURSES IN STATISTICS
LISA (Virginia Tech's Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis) is providing a series of evening short courses to help graduate students use statistics in their research. The focus of these two-hour courses is on teaching practical statistical techniques for analyzing or collecting data. See www.lisa.stat.vt.edu/?q=short_courses for instructions on how to REGISTER and to learn more.
Fall 2014 Schedule:
Tuesday, October 7: Design of Experiments;
Tuesday, October 14: SQL in R;
Tuesday, October 21: Survey Design and Analysis;
Tuesday, October 28: Introduction to R;
Tuesday, November 4: Generalized Linear Models and Categorical Data Analysis in R;
Tuesday, November 11: Graphics in R;
Tuesday, November 18: A tutorial for shiny in R;
Tuesday, December 2: Data Analysis in SAS;
Tuesday, October 21;
Instructor: Benedicto Kazuzuru;
Title: Survey Design and Analysis;
Course Information:
Survey methods involve collection of information from people with a view of understanding a particular problem in a society. Therefore one could easily be tempted to think that surveying simply means "asking questions from people to find an answer to a particular question". But how do you ask and whom do you ask and what you ask matters a lot in finding such an answer. This short course introduces statistical survey methods necessary to acquire and analyze the needed information in an objective way which would minimizes bias and errors in the final conclusion. The topics to be covered includes the key stages for survey designs (A clear research problem, population to be studied, sampling methods and sample size, data capture methods, questionnaire design and pilot study) and methods to analyze survey data.
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