Population Program Conferences, Short Courses, Workshops

Workshop: CUPC-NCAR Workshop on Migration, Urbanization and Climate Change ~ CU Population Center: May 7-8, 2012; Boulder, Colorado; Lori Hunter and Patricia Romero-Lankao - Organizers; Workshop Website

Short Course: Introduction to Spatial Demography: Geospatial Data and Spatial Regression ~ CU Population Center: May 23-25, 2012; Instructors: Paul Voss, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Seth Spielman, Elisabeth Root, University of Colorado Boulder; This course will provide an overview of spatial analysis in population and health, with an emphasis on spatial statistics and regression.; Class Website; Flyer

Conference: Integrating Genetics and the Social Sciences ~ CU Population Center: August 15-16, 2012; Supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development and the Population Association of America, with additional funds provided by the NICHD funded CU Population Center, the Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research, and the Institute of Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder.; IGSS 2012 Conference Website

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Conference: Integrating Genetics and the Social Sciences: May 31 - June 1, 2011; Supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development and the Population Association of America, with additional funds provided by the NICHD funded CU Population Center, the Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research, and the Institute of Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder.; IGSS 2011 Conference Website

Short Course: APS Short Course: Longitudinal Data Management & Analysis ~ SOCY 7171: July 11-22, 2011; Jani Little, Jill Williams, and Jane Menken - Instructors; Casey Blalock, Laura Patterson, and Christie Sennott - Teaching Assistants; Course Description and Preliminary Syllabus (pdf); Class Website (password protected site)

Wednesday, August 17, 2011, 9:00am - 12:00 noon, IBS Computer Lab, 150: Introduction to Nvivo 9; Kristi Jackson (QUERI, Inc); Registration is required for attendance at this workshop. Workshop is full; registration is closed.; More information about Nvivo; Workshop sponsored by Computing and Research Services.

Tuesday, November 15, 2011, 3:00 to 4:30 PM, IBS Room 155B: Introduction to Multiple Imputation of Missing Data; Patrick Krueger; Missing data is a common problem in social and behavioral data. Many commonly used methods for dealing with missing data can result in seriously biased coefficients and standard errors that do not accurately reflect our uncertainty about the estimate. Although no method for dealing with missing data is perfect, multiple imputation (MI) is relatively easy to implement and provides a substantial advance over prior methods. This talk offers an introduction to the logic behind multiple imputation, and presents a simple example from Patrick's data.; Workshop Slides (pdf); Workshop Example (pdf); Workshop sponsored by CUPC and Computing and Research Services.

Wednesday January 11, 2012, 9:30 AM to 3:15 PM, IBS Computer Lab, Room 150: Introduction to R; Matt Keller, Assistant Professor of Psychology at UCB and a fellow at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics & Elisabeth Root, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography at UCB and Faculty Research Affiliate, IBS; Registration and Workshop Materials; Workshop sponsored by Computing and Research Services.

Thursday, Feb 9, 2012, 12:00 to 1:00 PM, IBS Room 155B: Supercomputing in the Social Sciences: The When, Where, and How; Ben Domingue; Workshop Materials; Workshop sponsored by CUPC and Computing and Research Services.