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LISA Statistics Short Course: Designing Surveys
(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 2012 Schedule:
September 11: Designing Experiments and Collecting Useful Data;
September 17 & 18: Using JMP to design experiments and analyze the results;
September 25: Designing Surveys;
November 2: Analyzing Surveys;
November 8: Introduction to R, Part I;
November 9: Introduction to R, Part II;
November 15 & 16: How to make plots to tell the story of your data;
*These courses will be held in the GLC, all other courses are in 3060 Torgersen Hall.
Tuesday, September 25;
Instructor: Dr. Eric Vance;
Title: Designing Surveys;
Course Information:
In this short course, learn how to design a survey to strengthen your research by applying statistical thinking to designing your survey and learning the five steps necessary for collecting data that will answer your research questions. We will cover how to select your sample (including sample size calculations), how to design a questionnaire to minimize errors and biases inherent in surveys, how to pilot test and re-test your survey, and how to implement your survey. You will have opportunities to apply what you have learned to your own problems and, at the end, to ask LISA statistical collaborators any questions you might still have about designing surveys.
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