LISA SHORT COURSES IN STATISTICS
LISA (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. Refreshments will be provided at the end of each short course!

Remaining Spring 2011 Schedule:
February 15: Regression;
February 21: Intro to SAS Part I*;
February 22: Intro to SAS Part II*;
February 28 & March 1: Introduction to R*;
March 14 & 15: Bayesian Methods for Regression in R*;
*Course to be held in 3080 Torgersen Hall. Other courses will be in Fralin Auditorium

Tuesday, February 15;
Instructor: Jennifer Kensler;
Title: Regression;
Course Information: This short course provides an introduction to simple linear regression, multiple linear regression, and regression with categorical variables. These techniques will be demonstrated using JMP. JMP is available for free download to VT students at http://www2.ita.vt.edu/software/student/products/sas/jmp/index.html. Participants may want to bring a laptop with JMP installed.

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Location:	Fralin Auditorium
Price:	Free
Contact:	Tonya Pruitt lisa@vt.edu 540-231-8354
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