Related UW Courses
Demography is a major subfield within the discipline of sociology and is also an interdisciplinary science that links sociology with statistics, geography, economics, anthropology, psychology, epidemiology, and related social and biological sciences. Below is a list of graduate level courses in demography and population studies offered by CSDE and by individual departments and schools at UW.
Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences
CS&SS 508 : Introduction to R for Social Scientists |
Familiarizes students with the R environment for statistical computing (http://www.r-project.org). R is a freely available, multi-platform, and powerful program for analysis and graphics similar to S-PLUS. Covers the basics of organizing, managing, and manipulating social science data; basic applications; introduction to programming; links to other major statistical packages.
Instructor: Cori Mar (CSDE)
Schedule: F 10:30-11:20, Savery 149
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CS&SS 544 : Event History Analysis of Social and Spatial Change |
Examines life course research using event-history analysis with applications to the substantive areas of household dynamics, family formation and dissolution, marriage, cohabitation, and divorce, migration histories, residential mobility, and housing careers. Examines continuous- and discrete-time longitudinal models during practical laboratory sessions.
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