Mar 25, 2009

ECPR Summer School on Methods and Techniques 2009 in Ljubljana

Dear list subscribers,

I would like to point your attention to the 2009 program of the ECPR Summer School in Methods and Techniques in Ljubljana. The course program has been expanded and now also includes one-week courses.

Sincerely, Ingo Rohlfing

4th ECPR SUMMER SCHOOL IN METHODS AND TECHNIQUES (Ljubljana, 29 July - 15 Aug 2009)
The offer of cutting-edge courses has been further expanded (more diversity of topics, and opportunities to "cross-fertilize" between methods and techniques), with an international team of instructors

- 5 "refresher courses" :
1 INTRODUCTION TO SPSS
2 INTRODUCTION TO R
3 MATHS REFRESHER (I): LINEAR ALGEBRA & CALCULUS
4 MATHS REFRESHER (II): PROBABILITY
5 INFERENTIAL STATISTICS

- 13 full 2-week courses :
6 QCA AND FUZZY SETS - CONFIGURATIONAL COMPARATIVE METHODS
7 MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS
8 CASE STUDY ANALYSIS
9 QUANTITATIVE TEXT ANALYSIS
10 GROUNDED THEORY AS A MEANS OF INTERPRETATIVE ANALYSIS
11 EXPERIMENTAL METHODS
12 DATA THEORY AND MISSING DATA
13 SURVIVAL ANALYSIS AND EVENT HISTORY ANALYSIS
14 INTRODUCTORY NETWORK ANALYSIS
15 POLITICAL GAME THEORY
16 CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS AND STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELLING
17 MIXED METHODS RESEARCH
18 MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS AND COMPARATIVE CROSSNATIONAL SURVEYS DATA

- 10 more compact 1-week courses (can be combined in a week 1 - week 2 sequence):
19 LOGICAL MODELS (Week 1)
20 WORKING WITH COMPARATIVE SURVEY DATA (Week 1)
21 ETHNOGRAPHIC METHODS AND IN DEPTH INTERVIEWING (Week 1)
22 EXPERT INTERVIEWS: QUALITATIVE DATA GENERATION (Week 1)
23 NETWORK ANALYSIS: APPLICATIONS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE (Week 1)
24 VISUAL AND STATISTICAL EXPLORATION OF DATA (Week 2)
25 QUALITATIVE TEXT ANALYSIS: DISCURSIVE APPROACHES (Week 2)
26 QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS USING NVIVO (Week 2)
27 ORGANISING AND ANALYSING FOCUS GROUPS (Week 2)
28 LIMITED DEPENDANT VARIABLES (Week 2)

Registrations on first come - first served basis (register early to be sure to be accepted to the course of your choice)
All details at: http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/events/summerschools/ljubljana/index.aspx

Ingo Rohlfing, PhD
Research Associate
Chair of Comparative Politics (Prof. Andr€ ¦é Kaiser)
Gottfried-Keller- Str. 1
D-50931 K€ ¦öln
+49 (0)221 470-3360
http://www.politik.uni-koeln.de/kaiser/mitarbeiter/rohlfing.htm


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