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Training - Brown Bag

These informal meetings are intended to provide space for presentations and discussions on topics in applied statistics that are of interest to demographic researchers. And yes, you’re welcome to bring your lunch!

Winter 2009

Introduction to Respondent Driven Sampling
Krista J. Gile
Tuesday February 24, 2009
11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
Raitt Hall 221

Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS) is a type of snowball sampling where existing study subjects recruit future subjects from others they know. It is typically used to study hidden populations where a probability sample would not be possible or practical. The primary difficulty with RDS is estimating population parameters given the dependence among the observations.

Krista will give a basic introduction to RDS for researchers who are currently using or might want to use this method in the future. This will include when it is appropriate to use RDS as well as the strengths and weaknesses of current estimation methods.

This will be a good introduction to her more technical talk at the CSSS seminar on Wednesday February 25 from 12:30 to 1:20 in Denny 401. http://www.csss.washington.edu/Seminars/current/Seminar-25-feb.shtml

Autumn 2008

Introduction to Epidemic Modeling

Spring 2008

Introduction to Using Census Data

Winter 2008

Introduction to Longitudinal Data Analysis

Autumn 2007

Minimizing the pain of getting human subjects approval

Summer 2007

How to interpret interactions

Winter 2007

Uh-oh, what do I do with this missing data?