Need to expand your skills in statistical methods and quantitative analysis? Attend the ICPSR Summer Program! Each year, ICPSR provides a comprehensive, integrated program of studies in research design, statistics, data analysis, and social science methodology. Registration is now open for the 2013 session.
For a listing of course offerings and application information, see the ICPSR Summer Program web site. New and ongoing courses this year include:
- Assessing and Mitigating Disclosure Risk for Confidential Data
- Monte Carlo Simulation and Resampling Methods
- Network Analysis: An Introduction
Note that while most courses are held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, the following three will be held nearby, in Amherst, MA or New York, NY:
- Analyzing Developmental Trajectories
- Designing, Conducting, and Analyzing Field Experiments
- Hierarchical Linear Models I: Introduction
- The Workflow of Data Analysis using Stata
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And don’t forget ICPSR as a source of quantitative data on a range of topics: from consumer behavior, election statistics, health, international relations, social attitudes and behavior, and more! Recently added datasets include:
- Congressional Record for 104th-109th Congresses: Text and Phrase Counts
- Eurobarometer 73.1: The European Parliament, Biotechnology, and Science and Technology, January-February 2010
- Mathematics Teaching in the 21st Century
- National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), 1994-2008
- State Vaccination Requirements and Exemption Law Database, 2011
In other news, ICPSR now is releasing all of its new data files in R software format.
For further information, contact Katherine McNeill, Social Science Data Services Librarian, at mcneillh@mit.edu.