The ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research is
very pleased to announce a special fee offer regarding a  new course
that appears for the first time in the 2011 schedule. 

 

Professor Keith Poole (Philip H. Alston Jr. Distinguished Professor of
Political Science, University of Georgia) will teach a five-day workshop
on "Estimating Geometric Models of Choice and Judgment." 

The course description is as follows:

 

This course is concerned with methods of estimating latent dimensions of
preference and similarity from individuals' observed choices and
judgments. Factor analysis, multidimensional scaling, and related
techniques are studied both with classical maximum likelihood and
Bayesian methods. Given either similarities or preference data, the
statistical methods developed over the past 60 years from early factor
analytic methods through Bayesian MCMC will be taught historically in
order to illustrate the various perspectives of the inventors of these
methods. R will be the primary software platform used in the course and
all of the programs are open source and run on any platform.

 

The workshop will be held on the campus of the University of Michigan in
Ann Arbor. The dates are Monday, June 13 through Friday, June 17. The
class will meet 9:00 a.m. through 5:00 p.m. each day. Registration
information for this class is available on the ICPSR Summer Program
website, at http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/sumprog/.
<http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/sumprog/>  

 

The special fee for the workshop is $350. This rate that is
substantially lower than the amount usually charged for our five-day
courses. By making this special offer to the research community, we hope
to maximize interest and participation in the class, and in the ICPSR
Summer Program more generally. 

 

Professor Poole's workshop is a great opportunity for anyone interested
in scaling methodology and general strategies for discerning systematic
structure in multivariate data. But, it should be particularly relevant
for researchers who use NOMINATE and OC scores to study legislative
roll-call voting and other types of binary-choice data.

 

Further information about this, and other classes, in the ICPSR Summer
Program is available on the website
(http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/sumprog/). And, you should feel free to
contact the Summer Program with any questions via e-mail
([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ) or telephone
(734-763-7400).


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