Dear Colleagues,



We would appreciate if you circulate the following announcement regarding
the 2018 ICPSR Summer Workshops at the Hobby School of Public Affairs at
the University of Houston (UH) to your colleagues and graduate students.



*ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research*



The Hobby School of Public Affairs has been selected by Inter-University
Consortium of Political

and Social Research (ICPSR) as a host of the 2018 Summer Program in
Quantitative Methods of Social Research (ICPSR) that was launched in 1962
as a national initiative for training social scientists in research methods
including mathematical modeling, statistics, data analytic and experimental
design.



ICPSR is hosted at the University of Michigan, and runs its flagship Summer
Institute in Ann Arbor. The HSPA joins a selective group of academic
institutions in the ICPSR network offering summer training workshops. Other
hosts of Summer Workshops include the University of Massachusetts at
Amherst, the University of California Berkeley, Indiana University at
Bloomington, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ICPSR also has three international partners:
the University of Glasgow, Scotland; the University of St. Gallen,
Switzerland; and York University, Toronto, Canada.



These workshops aim at training students and professionals in the
analytical tools and software used in the analysis of data in the social
sciences. The Hobby School will offer four short workshops this summer:



1.      Linear Regression Analysis in the Social Sciences (basic methods
for statistical analysis), five-day workshop, May 14-18.



2.      Introduction to R (open-source statistical software), three-day
workshop, May 14-16.



3.      Introduction to Crowdsourcing and MTurk (tools for decentralized
task management, survey and experimental design), two-day workshop, May
21-22.



4.      The Generalized Linear Model and Maximum Likelihood Estimation
(advanced methods for statistical analysis), five-day workshop, May 21-25.



The workshops meet daily from 9 am to 5 pm, and include lectures and
hands-on lab training on the applications learned in class. For more
information about the ICPSR Summer Program at the Hobby School please
contact Pablo M. Pinto ([log in to unmask]), Director, Center for Public
Policy, or Scott Mason ([log in to unmask]), Program Manager at the
Hobby School. Financial support of up to $1,000 per workshop is available
for eligible students.



Thank you so much for your help.

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