Statistical Workshops

Phil Schrodt (Political Science, Penn State University) will presebt a two-hour workshop, Friday, Nov. 4, from 2 to 4 pm, in the Gatton Computer Lab, on "Using TABARI, Text & Event Data Analysis," a program he designed for conducting text analysis to analyze and forecast international events.

Professor Philip A. Schrodt (Penn State University, Political Science) is one of the leading scholars in International Relations and Political Methodology. His current research focuses on predicting political change using statistical and pattern recognition methods.

Dr. Damla Senturk (from UCLA Biostatistics), will present, "Time Course Data and Varying Coefficient Modeling," in CB 231 from 9 am to 10 am, Monday September 9, 2011. 

Multilevel Modeling (MLM) Using Stata.  Brandon Bartels (Political Science, GWU) will present a 3-day workshop on Multilevel Modeling (MLM) using Stata that extends to longitudinal analysis.  Brandon uses multilevel modeling in his research in judicial politics and teaches a graduate course in MLM at GWU.  Morning sessions are devoted to conceptual topics (in BE 148), with afternoon sessions in the Gatton computer lab (BE 105).

 Paul Voss (Sociologist, UNC, Chapel Hill, Odum Institute) will present a 3-day workshop on spatial regression analysis.  Paul introduces R, some Bayesian modeling and a simple software package, GeoDa, as well.  Morning sessions are devoted to conceptual topics (in BE 148), with afternoon sessions in the Gatton computer lab (BE 105). (Co-sponsored with Statistics, the Tracy Farmer Institute and the Geospatial Science & Technology (GST) Group.) May 17th to 19th (Tuesday to Thursday), Gatton.