Regression methods Event

Time:: 09:30 - 14:30
Date:: 4 - 6 June 2014
Venue:: Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute Building 39 University of Southampton Southampton SO17 1BJ Participants will need to make their own accommodation arrangements.

For more information regarding this event, please telephone CASS Courses in Applied Social Surveys programme enquiries on +44 (0)23 8059 5376 or email cass@soton.ac.uk .

Event details

This course provides a good introduction to applied regression methods for survey data. The course focuses on logistic regression and multinomial logistic regression. Models for ordinal data will also be introduced. At the beginning of the course, basic principles of multiple linear regression will be reviewed.

Course Objectives:

To introduce participants to multivariate statistical methods for analysing survey data (review of multiple linear regression, introduction to logistic and multinomial regression, introduction to models for ordinal data).
To provide hands-on experience of analysing data

Course Content:
This course will include the following topics:

Review of linear regression
Logistic regression
Diagnostics and Model Selection
Multinomial logistic regression
Introduction to methods for ordinal data

The course will include computer workshops using SPSS so that participants can work through examples and practical exercises.

Target Audience:
The course is aimed at researchers who need to analyse or interpret survey data, especially those in the social, economic, educational and medical sciences. Participants should already be familiar with basic statistical theory including inference and linear regression. Participants may be researchers working in academia, local or central government, survey agencies, market research, the voluntary or the private sector.

Duration:
Times are to be confirmed: The course will begin with coffee and registration at 9.30 with formal teaching starting at 10.00am on the first day. The course finishes at about 2.30pm on the last day. Afterwards there will be an opportunity for participants to ask questions about the course and to discuss with the instructor how to analyse their own data (until about 4pm). (Course participants are welcome to bring their own data.)

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Speaker information

Dr Nikos Tzavidis,Senior Lecturer in Social Statistics at the Division of Social Statistics

Gabriele B Durrant,Reader at the Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute (S3RI)

Olga Maslovskaya,is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow working on the ESRC-funded ‘The Use of Paradata in Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Surveys' at the Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute (S3RI)