OTTAWA SHORT COURSE ON APPLYING STATISTICS 2000 Monday & Tuesday, May 15&16 2000 9am to 5pm Ottawa, Ontario Canada Sponsored by Department of Epidemiology and Community Health of the University of Ottawa and the Loeb Health Research Institute at The Ottawa Hospital MULTIVARIATE DEPENDENCIES Lecturers: David Cox, Nuffield College, Oxford and Nanny Wermuth, ZUMA - Center for Survey Research, Mannheim Registration Fee: $300.00 (Cdn) - The fee to Graduate Students is $150.00. Includes the lecturer's book "Multivariate Dependencies - Models, Analysis and Interpretation", Chapman and Hall, 1996 The aim of the course: The course will provide a systematic discussion of a basis for the analysis and interpretation of complex multivariate data. The course is designed for those making extensive use of statistical methods in health and social science research who need to meaningfully interact with both other statisticians and scientists / decision makers. Common issues and themes that arise in almost any form of careful data analysis, complex or otherwise, will be discussed. The course is intended for those concerned with the analysis and interpretation of complex data, especially but not entirely observational data. The applications from the social and health sciences are wide-ranging including, for example, studies of medical interventions and of sociological or psychological development. While the primary emphasis will be on statistical methods for direct use in applications, some issues of theoretical interest will also be addressed. One central theme will be the role of independence graphs and on processes by which the data could have been generated. This theme suggests the recasting and restructuring of fairly standard and well known statistical techniques to better focus and report on important data analysis issues. No software presentations will be given, the emphasis being largely on methods which can be implemented within standard packages. A fairly similar course was given last Fall at the Fields Institute in Toronto (http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/cis-scourse.html#MARKOV). While the course is based in part on the lecturers' book "Multivariate Dependencies - Models, Analysis and Interpretation" (Chapman and Hall, 1996), a number of important developments since the book will be described. As well as core material a number of specific research questions will be discussed in detail; the corresponding data can be obtained via the internet (soon at http://www.lri.ca/). For further information and registration email the course organizer, Keith O'Rourke at [EMAIL PROTECTED] =========================================================================== This list is open to everyone. Occasionally, less thoughtful people send inappropriate messages. Please DO NOT COMPLAIN TO THE POSTMASTER about these messages because the postmaster has no way of controlling them, and excessive complaints will result in termination of the list. For information about this list, including information about the problem of inappropriate messages and information about how to unsubscribe, please see the web page at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ ===========================================================================
