tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25308696700919805052024-03-09T03:19:37.598+05:30Statistics and AnalyticsStatistics, Analytics, Calculus, Modeling, Bayesian, Logistic Regression, Spatial Analysis, GIS, Clinical Trials, Data Mining, Microarray, R Programming, STATISTICA, Natural Language Processing, Sentiment Analysis, Text Mining, Rasch, Sample Size, Survey, Simulation, Life Science, Biostatistics, Clinical Trial, Pharmacokinetics, Bioequivalence, Epidemiology, Bootstrap, Meta Analysis, Inference, Survival Analysis, Forecasting, Bioequivalence, Linear Models, Quantitative Risk, Sampling, ANOVAAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03520938060244354932noreply@blogger.comBlogger96125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2530869670091980505.post-11922720716091340742014-05-28T15:32:00.001+05:302014-05-28T15:32:24.845+05:30Introduction to Statistical Issues in Clinical Trials<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Streptomycin
has a storied history, and many uses - it is the treatment of choice for
plague, and is also used to control algae in ponds. Its place in statistics history, though,
dates to 1946, when a study demonstrated its effectiveness in cases of
tuberculosis. This study - controlled,
double blind with a placebo - is generally regarded as the first randomized
controlled trial (RCT).</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Learn the principles of designing and analyzing RCT's in our online
course, "<b>Introduction to Statistical Issues in Clinical Trials</b>,"
with Dr. Vidyadhar Phadke at Statistics.com. </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">For more details please visit </span><span lang="EN-IN"><a href="http://www.statistics.com/ClinicalStats/" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.statistics.com/ClinicalStats/</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">. </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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principles in the design and analysis of randomized controlled trials.
Participants will learn the basic principles for the design of trials, and
sample size determination. They will also learn the appropriate statistical
techniques associated with the major types of end points for trials
(categorical, count, Normal, non-Normal). Participants will also be introduced
to pharmacokinetics and the study of drug concentration data.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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companies and other health research organizations who need or want to become
involved in the design, monitoring or analysis of clinical trials.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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devices, psychiatric therapy, alternative medicine.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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research organization for advanced design of clinical trials. Dr. Phadke has responsibility for Cytel's
industry-leading software for adaptive trials (EaSt) and dose-ranging trials
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03520938060244354932noreply@blogger.com0India20.593684 78.962885.536602 58.748036 35.650766 99.177724tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2530869670091980505.post-27401224719474929562014-05-02T18:23:00.000+05:302014-05-02T18:23:02.861+05:30Introduction to Statistical Modeling<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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mathematical notation and formulas are not your friend, consider Dr. Vittorio
Addona's online course <b>Introduction to Statistical Modeling</b> at
statistics.com. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the ideas and techniques of statistical modeling. Once you have completed this
course, you will be able to construct and interpret linear statistical models
involving multiple variables and co-variates, you will understand the
implications of including or excluding explanatory variables, you will be able
to conduct and interpret analysis of variance (ANOVA) and of covariance
(ANCOVA), and you will have a solid theoretical foundation for understanding
linear regression and experimental design. For more details please visit at </span><span lang="EN-IN"><a href="http://www.statistics.com/ModelingIntro/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.statistics.com/ModelingIntro/</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Students who are planning to take regression
and other modeling courses at statistics.com. Analysts or educators who need to
work with multiple variables but are not comfortable with the standard formula-
and linear-algebra based approach generally taken.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Course outline:</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> The course
is structured as follows<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SESSION 1: What is a Statistical
Model?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Explanatory
and response variables<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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terms<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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model formulas<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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models to data<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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to R software<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SESSION 2: The Logic Behind
Models<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Statistical
adjustment<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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to the geometry of model fitting:<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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as a measure of alignment<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<b>SESSION 3: Randomness and Models<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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variance into parts<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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virtues of orthogonality<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The homework in this course consists of short
answer questions to test concepts, guided data analysis problems using
software, and guided data modeling problems using software.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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also has supplemental readings available online, and example software codes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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teaches statistics at Macalaster College in Minnesota. His research falls into three broad
categories: survival analysis, sports statistics, and election audits. His doctoral work was in survival analysis, a
statistical field often employed in medical studies of time-to-event data. Vittorio
teaches across the statistics curriculum: introductory modeling, probability,
mathematical statistics, and an applied survival analysis course.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">This course takes place online at the
Institute for 4 weeks. During each course week, you participate at times of
your own choosing - there are no set times when you must be online. Course
participants will be given access to a private discussion board. In class
discussions led by the instructor, you can post questions, seek clarification, and
interact with your fellow students and the instructor.</span></div>
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week. At the beginning of each week, you receive the relevant material, in
addition to answers to exercises from the previous session. During the week,
you are expected to go over the course materials, work through exercises, and
submit answers. Discussion among participants is encouraged. The instructor
will provide answers and comments, and at the end of the week, you will receive
individual feedback on your homework answers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(C-eLT), Pune, partner with Statistics.com and offer these courses to Indian
participants at special prices payable in INR.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03520938060244354932noreply@blogger.com0India20.593684 78.962885.4490234999999991 58.748036 35.7383445 99.177724tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2530869670091980505.post-14339002360168978472014-04-28T12:19:00.002+05:302014-04-28T12:19:48.946+05:30Text Mining<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Peter Bruce, President
and Founder of Statistics.com, says, as I read about the frenzy of interest in
mining Twitter data, I think of the 1949 Gold Rush, which boosted the settler
population of California from under 1,000 to over 100,000 in two years. Most miners made little money, but suppliers
of tools and owners of technology did quite well. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"Text
Mining" will introduce the essential techniques of text mining, understood
here as the extension of data mining's standard predictive methods to
unstructured text. This course will discuss these standard techniques, and will
devote considerable attention to the data preparation and handling methods that
are required to transform unstructured text into a form in which it can be
mined. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Learn about
text mining techniques in Nitin Indurkhya's online course, "<b>Text Mining</b>," at statistics.com.
For more details please visit </span><span lang="EN-IN"><a href="http://www.statistics.com/textmining" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.statistics.com/textmining</span></span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Who
can take this course?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">IT
professionals, web marketing analysts, data mining and statistical consultants.
In general: analysts and researchers who need to pilot, implement or analyze
data mining methods aimed at data containing unstructured text (forms, surveys,
etc.).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Course outline:</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> The course
is structured as follows<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Introduction and Data preparation<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Predictive Models for Text<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Document classification<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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this course consists of short answer questions to test concepts and guided data
analysis problems using software. In addition to assigned readings, this course
also has a get started guide, and supplemental readings available online.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of the "Handbook of Natural Language Processing" (CRC), was also
Principal Research Scientist at eBay and Professor at the School of Computer
Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales (Australia), as well as
the founder and president of Data-Miner Pty Ltd, an Australian company engaged
in data-mining consulting and education.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and exchange comments with the instructors via a private discussion board
throughout the course. The courses take place online at
statistics.com in a series of 4 weekly lessons and assignments, and require
about 15 hours/week. Participate at your own convenience; there are no
set times when you must be online. You have the flexibility to work a bit every
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03520938060244354932noreply@blogger.com0India20.593684 78.962885.536602 58.748036 35.650766 99.177724tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2530869670091980505.post-34348099259155488922014-04-18T13:31:00.001+05:302014-04-18T13:31:25.294+05:30Sample Size and Power Determination<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"How many subjects do I
need?" is a common question from researchers. "It depends" is the common,
unsatisfactory, response. Learn what the
answer depends on in Thomas Ryan's online course, “Sample Size and Power
Determination,” at Statistics.com.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">For more details please visit at </span><span lang="EN-IN"><a href="http://www.statistics.com/samplesize/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.statistics.com/samplesize/</span></span></a></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"Sample Size and Power
Determination" covers how to plan the appropriate sample size for a study,
striking the optimal balance of feasible sample size, reasonable assumptions,
and acceptable power. The power of a study (the study's ability to prove a
treatment effect exists) is determined by such factors as the magnitude of the
treatment effect, the sample size, alpha (the level of statistical significance
required), and (for survival studies) the study duration. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Since some of these factors are
under the researcher's control while others are not, the goal of power analysis
is to balance them as a series of "What if's." For example "What
sample size would we need if the treatment reduces the risk of death by 10%,
and what sample size would we need if the treatment reduces the risk of death
by 20%?" Or, "How would power be affected if the study followed
patients for two years rather than three?" This process of finding a
balance among factors is done most effectively with graphs that allow the
researcher to grasp (and communicate) a range of options in a single picture,
and find the one that strikes the optimal balance of feasible sample size,
reasonable assumptions, and acceptable power.
Illustrations include examples from means, proportions, correlations,
and survival analysis, and possibly from other procedures as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Course outline:</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> The course is structured as follows<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SESSION 1: Introduction to Sample Size Determination and Power, Including
Useful Software</span></b></div>
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confidence intervals<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Factors that determine
sample size<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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population mean<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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from the literature<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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studies<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What should be avoided: Retrospective power and standardized
effect sizes<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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analysis<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SESSION 2: Tests on Population Means (continued)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">T-Test or Z-Test for
population mean?<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Testing the normality
assumption<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Confidence Intervals on
Power and/or Sample Size?<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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literature with unequal sample sizes<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sample sizes determined by
scientist in two stages without software<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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efficient sample determination using software<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Using coefficient of
variation<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SESSION 3: Tests on Proportions and Variances<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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proportion <o:p></o:p></span></li>
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rectification<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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transformations built into software, for tests of proportions<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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variances<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Simple linear regression<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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must be inputted<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Repeated measures designs, Logrank test for survival analysis<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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sample size determination with more advanced<br />
statistical methods and some information on corresponding software<br />
capability</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></li>
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in this course consists of short answer questions to test concepts and guided
data analysis problems using software.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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addition to assigned readings, this course also has supplemental readings
available online<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Anyone responsible for the planning of a
study, or its subsequent analysis. Investigators writing grant applications or
other proposals in which sample size must be specified.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Size and Power Determination" (Wiley, 2103), a number of other books, plus
numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals.
He is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association,
American Society for Quality, and Royal Statistical Society. Participants can
ask questions and exchange comments with Dr. Ryan via a private discussion
board throughout the period of the course.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03520938060244354932noreply@blogger.com0India20.593684 78.96288tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2530869670091980505.post-51397617988595867492014-04-16T11:48:00.004+05:302014-04-16T11:48:58.947+05:30Practical Rasch Measurement - Core Topics<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Surveys and
tests produce prodigious quantities of data for diagnostic and assessment
purposes, but how useful is that data for decision-making? Rasch models
help you optimize the utility of quantitative information from surveys and
exams. Learn what the Rasch model involves by taking Dr. Everett V. Smith’s
online course "<b>Practical Rasch
Measurement - Core Topics</b>". For more details please visit at </span><span lang="EN-IN"><a href="http://www.statistics.com/rasch1" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.statistics.com/rasch1</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">. </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rasch analysis constructs linear measures from scored observations, such as
responses to multiple-choice questions, Likert scales and quality-of-life
assessments. This course covers the practical aspects of data setup, analysis,
output interpretation, fit analysis, differential item functioning,
dimensionality and reporting. Simple test linking and equating designs are
addressed. Supporting theory is presented conceptually. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Who
can take this course:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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researchers, social scientists who use surveys or questionnaires in their work,
education assessment analysts and managers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anchoring<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Homework in this course consists of short
answer questions to test concepts and end of course project.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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course also has supplemental readings available online, and an end of course
data modeling project.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago,
is co-editor of “Introduction to Rasch Measurement: Theory, Models, and
Applications” (2004), “Rasch Measurement: Advanced and Specialized
Applications” (2007), and “Criterion-Reference Testing: Practice Analysis to
Score Reporting using Rasch Measurement Models” (2009). He also serves as the
Associate Editor for the “Journal of Applied Measurement” and is on the
editorial boards of “Educational and Psychological Measurement and the Journal
of Nursing Measurement.” Participants can ask questions and exchange comments
directly with Dr. Smith via a private discussion board throughout the period.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03520938060244354932noreply@blogger.com0India20.593684 78.96288-32.3970015 -1.8964950000000016 73.5843695 159.82225499999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2530869670091980505.post-83037836712140826482014-04-09T17:47:00.002+05:302014-04-09T17:47:18.302+05:30Biostatistics in R: Clinical Trial Applications<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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compare treatments, incorporate covariates into the analysis, analyse survival
(time-to-event) trials, model longitudinal data, and analysis of bioequivalence
trials.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Karl Peace’s online course <b>Biostatistics in R: Clinical Trial Applications</b>
at Statistics.com. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is structured as follows<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">WEEK 1: Treatment Comparisons<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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answer questions to test concepts, guided data analysis problems using
software, and guided data modeling problems using software.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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supplemental readings available online.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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University of Rochester Medical Center, co-author of "Clinical Trial
Methodology" and "Clinical Trial Data Analysis Using R," and the
author or co-author of 80 refereed articles in scholarly journals. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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College of Public Health at Georgia Southern University, Georgia Cancer
Coalition Distinguished Cancer Scholar, founding director of the Center for
Biostatistics, and the founder of Biopharmaceutical Research Consultants, Inc.
(BRCI), and is Founder and Chair of the Biopharmaceutical Applied Statistics
Symposium (BASS). He has contributed heavily to the medical, scientific and
statistical literature by <b>authoring or co-authoring over 150 articles and
six books.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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companies and other health research organizations who need or want to become
involved in the design, monitoring or analysis of clinical trials and who are
familiar with R software and considering its use in clinical trials.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03520938060244354932noreply@blogger.com0India20.593684 78.962880000000041-8.580994 37.654286000000042 49.768361999999996 120.27147400000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2530869670091980505.post-2447227750377092882014-04-09T15:59:00.003+05:302014-04-09T15:59:31.978+05:30Spatial Statistics with Geographic Information Systems (GIS)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Peter Bruce (President and Founder-
Statistics.com) says, “Wandering around Memphis, TN recently, I was able to use
my phone to tell me the value of a mansion I was passing by, and locate the
hotel famous for letting ducks use the elevator. I could also have used
it to find Graceland, but some tasks still lie well within the realm of the
human brain. Location data is now the fastest growing type of data, and its
effective use is the province of spatial statistics.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of geospatial analysis in David Unwin's online course "Spatial Statistics
with Geographic Information Systems (GIS)," at Statistics.com. For more
detail please check at </span><span lang="EN-IN"><a href="http://www.statistics.com/spatial-statistics-GIS/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.statistics.com/spatial-statistics-GIS/</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of spatially continuous data using methods that are collectively referred to as
geostatistics. Lesson 4 has a brief introduction to the basic concepts as used
in interpolation, but this is all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the homework is a mixture of some simple exercises and consists of guided data
analysis problems using public domain software.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In addition to
assigned readings, this course also has an end of course data modeling project,
and supplemental video lectures.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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David Unwin</b>,<b> </b>is Emeritus Chair of Geography at Birkbeck College, and
Visiting Professor in the Department of Geomatic Engineering at University
College, both in the University of London. His work using and developing
spatial statistics in research stretches back some 40 years, and he has
authored over a hundred academic papers in the field, together with a series of
texts, of which the most recent are his “Geographic Information Analysis, 2nd
edition” (with D. O'Sullivan, 2010) and a series of edited collections at the
interface between geography and computer science in “Visualization in GIS”
(Hearnshaw and Unwin, 1994), “Spatial Analytical Perspectives on GIS” (Fischer,
Scholten and Unwin, 1996) “Virtual Reality in Geography” (Fisher and Unwin,
2002) and, most recently representation issues in “Re-presenting GIS” (Fisher
and Unwin, 2005). Having developed the world's first wholly internet-delivered
Master's program in GIS in 1998, David Unwin has considerable experience of
teaching and tutoring online.
Participants can ask questions and exchange comments directly with Dr.
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Spatial analysis often uses methods adapted
from conventional analysis to address problems in which spatial location is the
most important explanatory variable. This course, which is directed
particularly to students with backgrounds in either computing or statistics but
who lack a background in the necessary geospatial concepts, will explain and
give examples of the analysis that can be conducted in a geographic information
system such as ArcGIS or Mapinfo. The motivation is simple: it is one thing to
run a GIS, but quite another to use it analytically to help answer questions
such as:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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variation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to use and interpret the data from Geographic Information Systems (GIS's),
including those in environmental analysis and management, banking, insurance,
logistics, law enforcement services, defence, media, real estate, retail and
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and exchange comments with the instructors via a private discussion board
throughout the course. The courses take place online at
statistics.com in a series of 4 weekly lessons and assignments, and require
about 15 hours/week. Participate at your own convenience; there are no
set times when you must be online. You have the flexibility to work a bit every
day, if that is your preference, or concentrate your work in just a couple of
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03520938060244354932noreply@blogger.com0India20.593684 78.962885.536602 58.748036 35.650766 99.177724tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2530869670091980505.post-34611862627119913562014-04-07T11:53:00.001+05:302014-04-07T11:53:59.641+05:30Webinar on exact tests for correlated data (Tuesday, April 8, 11:00 am - 12:00 US Eastern time)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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be giving an instructional webinar on exact tests for correlated data. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Tuesday, April 8, 11:00 am - 12:00 US Eastern time (NO Charge) <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Correlated data are common in many research
areas, but especially in multicentre clinical trials, genetics, epidemiology,
ophthalmology, and teratology. Correlated data arises often where multiple
outcomes are measured on an individual over time, or on several individuals
sharing common genetic or environmental exposures. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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correlated categorical outcomes rely on large-sample distributional assumptions
(e.g., approximate normality) to justify their results. These approaches work
poorly for small or sparse samples.
That's when you need exact methods. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A recently introduced StatXact® module
provides a suite of exact tests for analysing correlated data tables. These
tools provide correlated-data analogues for common exact tests, including
Fisher’s test. We’ll illustrate use and results interpretation using real-world
examples, including ophthalmological, developmental toxicology, family-based
Alzheimer’s genetics studies, two multicentre clinical trials, and brain
pathology research applications. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Trend tests for ordered binomials <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Kruskal-Wallis test (for a two-way table with one ordered and one
unordered variable) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Corcoran, Ph.D., Associate Dept. Head, Utah State University. Dr. Corcoran received his B.S. from USU in Statistics
and Computer Science in 1995. He earned his Biostatistics and Genetic
Epidemiology doctorate from Harvard in 1999, then joined the faculty of USU's
Department of Mathematics and Statistics. At USU, Chris has collaborated on
several large research projects, including studies of aging, dementia,
cardiovascular disease, cancer, and autism. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and how genetic and environmental factor interactions alter disease risk.
Considering thousands or even millions of genes simultaneously requires
carefully designed statistical and computational methods. Chris has steadily
developed, implemented, and documented such approaches in StatXact, LogXact,
and in SAS-compatible functions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03520938060244354932noreply@blogger.com0India20.593684 78.962880000000041-8.580994 37.654286000000042 49.768361999999996 120.27147400000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2530869670091980505.post-40208017661665261672014-04-02T11:42:00.004+05:302014-04-02T11:42:49.753+05:30Applied Predictive Analytics<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Einstein said "In theory, theory and
practice are the same. In practice, they
are not." This course is about the
practice of predictive analytics, and is taught in partnership with a company
with years of consulting experience with telecoms (predicting churn), large
retailers (predicting holiday sales), online merchants (microtargeting), and
more<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is a fully practical and applied course -
you should have some familiarity with predictive modeling before taking
it. In part 1 of this course, you will
get some hands-on experience with real-world data and the issues of problem
definition and data prep. In Part 2 you
will take a defined dataset, develop models, assess them, and submit your best
model. Your instructor will serve as
your personal guide in this effort.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mr. Mohan Singh will present his course
“Applied Predictive Analytics, in partnership with CrowdANALYTIX” online at
Statistics.com. For more details please visit at <a href="http://www.statistics.com/applied-pa/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Applied Predictive Analytics, inpartnership with CrowdANALYTIX</span></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The goal of this course is to teach users (who
have basic knowledge of R programming, predictive analytics and statistics) to
apply machine learning techniques in real world case studies. This course
provides hands on approach, presenting the opportunity to participate in a
private educational competition hosted by CrowdANALYTIX.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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data from the "daily deals" industry (consisting of websites like
Groupon, Living Social etc. which source local deals to offer each day). The
daily deals industry is emerging and highly competitive. The goal will be to
predict the revenue from each offering using the given data.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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participants will be given a set of exercises and instructions to work on the
raw data or processed data (details below). Users will apply their
statistical/machine learning knowledge, along with their business
understanding, to solve the problems and interpret the modeling results for the
given business objective. The course will follow an iterative approach for
problem solving, in which users are required to submit modeling responses
multiple times.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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This Course:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Business analysts, R users, SAS users,
statistical analysts who want to learn to implement and apply machine learning
techniques to solve predictive analytics problems in a real world business
case. Data mining analysts who want extend their knowledge to include machine
learning techniques for data modelling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WEEK 1: Business Case Study,
Introduction and Data Pre-processing<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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and business case study introduction<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Cleaning, pre-processing & data visualization<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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business objective to be modelled based on the case study<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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perform simple statistical measures. Perform data cleaning, data pre-processing
and data manipulation as required by the case study problem.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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WEEK 2: Classification Problem, Data Sampling, Feature Selection and Model
Building<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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to machine learning<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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packages in R)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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feature selection and processing on given data<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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building based on classification techniques<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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machine learning packages in R. Converting raw data into features or creating
new features, if needed for the modelling objective.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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WEEK 3: Evaluation Metrics, Scoring Model Output, Leaderboard Prediction<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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machine learning model like decision trees, ensemble modelling etc.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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metric like confusion matrix, RMSE etc.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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level machine learning model for the problem. These scores will be reflected on
the private contest leaderboard for all participants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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for Business Case Study<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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building and Leaderboard updates on a daily basis visualize the output of
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on understanding the various model outputs for the business objective.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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senior data scientist at CrowdANALYTIX with extensive research experience in
healthcare and imaging. He has taught
data mining & computer science at University College Dublin and UC,
Irvine. Participants can ask questions
and exchange comments with Mr. Singh via a private discussion board throughout
the period.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and exchange comments with the instructors via a private discussion board
throughout the course. The courses take place online at
statistics.com in a series of 4 weekly lessons and assignments, and require
about 15 hours/week. Participate at your own convenience; there are no
set times when you must be online. You have the flexibility to work a bit every
day, if that is your preference, or concentrate your work in just a couple of
days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(C-eLT), Pune, partner with Statistics.com and offer these courses to Indian
participants at special prices payable in INR.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03520938060244354932noreply@blogger.com0India20.593684 78.962880000000041-8.5815185000000014 37.654286000000042 49.7688865 120.27147400000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2530869670091980505.post-1572638373083532882014-03-28T11:42:00.001+05:302014-03-28T11:42:04.810+05:30Data Mining: Unsupervised Techniques<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Data mining, the art and science of learning
from data, covers a number of different procedures. This course covers key
unsupervised learning techniques: association rules, principal components
analysis, and clustering. (Introduction to Predictive Modeling covers
techniques that are used to predict a record's class or the value of an outcome
variable on the basis of a set of records with known outcomes). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Learn with</span><span lang="EN-IN"> </span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mr. Anthony
Babinec in online course "</span><span lang="EN-IN"> </span><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Data Mining:
Unsupervised Techniques</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">" at Statistics.com. For more details
please visit at </span><span lang="EN-IN"><a href="http://www.statistics.com/datamining/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.statistics.com/datamining/</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We, C-eLT, Pune, partner with Statistics.com
and offer these courses to Indian participants at special prices payable in
INR.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The course will include an integration of
supervised and unsupervised learning techniques. This is a hands-on course -
participants in the course will have access to an Excel-based comprehensive
tool for data-mining, XLMiner, the use of which will be explained in the
course. Participants will apply data mining algorithms to real data, and will
interpret the results.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Marketers seeking to specify customer segments
and identify associations among products purchased, environment scientists
seeking to cluster observations, analysts who need to identify the key
variables out of many, MBA's seeking to update their knowledge of quantitative
techniques, managers and scientists who want to see what data-mining can do,
and anyone who wants a practical hands-on grounding in basic data-mining
techniques.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SESSION
1: Principal Components Analysis<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The final lesson is an integration of
supervised and unsupervised techniques. To get the full benefit of this course,
familiarity with supervised learning is needed, but those not requiring this
integration can learn about clustering, association rules and principal
components without having had a course in supervised learning.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The instructor, <b>Anthony
Babinec</b>, is the president of AB Analytics and served previously as Director
of Advanced Products Marketing at SPSS; he worked on the marketing of
Clementine and introduced CHAID, neural nets and other advanced technologies to
SPSS.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ask questions and exchange comments with the instructors via a private
discussion board throughout the course. The courses take place
online at statistics.com in a series of 4 weekly lessons and assignments, and
require about 15 hours/week. Participate at your own convenience; there
are no set times when you must be online. You have the flexibility to work a
bit every day, if that is your preference, or concentrate your work in just a couple
of days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(C-eLT), Pune, partner with Statistics.com and offer these courses to Indian
participants at special prices payable in INR.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03520938060244354932noreply@blogger.com0India20.593684 78.962885.4490234999999991 58.748036 35.7383445 99.177724tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2530869670091980505.post-76078355212012644272014-03-21T10:55:00.000+05:302014-03-21T10:55:03.844+05:30Discrete Choice Modeling and Conjoint Analysis<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Journal in 2007 and revamped it, the Journal fought strong newspaper industry
headwinds to reverse a decline in ad sales and boost overall revenue and
attract subscribers. They used conjoint analysis, a technique that has
been widely used in market research for 30 years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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In "Discrete Choice Modeling and Conjoint Analysis" with Anthony
Babinec, you will learn how to ask survey respondents to rank, rate, or choose
among multiple products with multiple attributes, using experimental designs to
manipulate the appearance of attribute levels in product concepts. Data in
hand, you then use statistical methods to infer how the market would choose
among a set of competing product alternatives. This course covers statistical
techniques that address questions like this. Conjoint analysis is a marketing
research technique that asks respondents to rank, rate, or choose among
multiple products or services, where each product is described using multiple
characteristics.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of AB Analytics and previously Director of Advanced Products Marketing at SPSS,
has specialized in the application of statistical and data mining methods to
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and exchange comments with the instructors via a private discussion board
throughout the course. The courses take place online at statistics.com
in a series of 4 weekly lessons and assignments, and require about 15
hours/week. Participate at your own convenience; there are no set times
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03520938060244354932noreply@blogger.com0India20.593684 78.962885.536602 58.748036 35.650766 99.177724tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2530869670091980505.post-53806028402954288342014-03-20T12:29:00.000+05:302014-03-20T12:33:22.940+05:30Online courses on Applied Statistics - Data Science, Research Science and more<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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designing and analyzing studies - including Bayesian analysis, conducting
surveys and analyzing the data they yield, and a unique concentration strand
devoted to Rasch methods)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IN" style="color: #ff3300; font-size: 12.0pt;">Introductory
Statistics<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We, the Center for eLearning and Training
(C-eLT), Pune, partner with Statistics.com and offer these courses to Indian
participants at special prices payable in INR.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let me tell you in very brief why prescribing
these courses for your personnel is such a great idea:</span></div>
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<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -18pt;">The courses enable mastery over statistical
skill sets and give your team a competitive edge</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -18pt;">They enhance your personnel’s ability to make
smarter business decisions that are data driven</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -18pt;">They put professional growth on the fast track</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -18pt;">The participants have the opportunity to learn
from top statisticians who are authors of popular books on Statistics and often
professors at leading universities.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -18pt;">The courses are online and participants can
follow a flexible schedule in terms of time and space</span></li>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Need advice on what which course to take?
Contact us with your goals and background and we will provide some suggestions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IN" style="color: #ff3300; font-size: 12.0pt;">Data Mining
and Prediction<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Applied Predictive Analytics,
in partnership with CrowdANALYTIX<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Data Mining in R - Learning
with Case Studies<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Data Mining: Unsupervised
Techniques<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Decision Trees and Rule-Based
Segmentation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Political Analytics<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Predictive Analytics 1 -
Machine Learning Tools<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Predictive Analytics 2-
Neural Nets and Regression<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IN" style="color: #ff3300; font-size: 12.0pt;">Data
Analytics<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Cluster Analysis<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Discrete Choice Modeling and
Conjoint Analysis<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Forecasting Analytics<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Interactive Data
Visualization<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Introduction to Social
Network Analysis<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Logistic Regression<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Statistical Analysis of
Microarray Data with R<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IN" style="color: #ff3300; font-size: 12.0pt;">Using R<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Data Mining in R - Learning
with Case Studies<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Graphics in R<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Mapping in R<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Modeling in R<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">R for Statistical Analysis<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">R Programming - Advanced<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">R Programming - Intermediate<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">R Programming - Introduction
1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">R Programming - Introduction
2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Visualization in R with
ggplot2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IN" style="color: #ff3300; font-size: 12.0pt;">Text
Analytics<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Natural Language Processing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Sentiment Analysis<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Text Mining<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IN" style="color: #ff3300; font-size: 12.0pt;">Operations
Research and Risk<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Advanced Optimization<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Financial Risk Modeling<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Introduction to Optimization<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Introduction to Quantitative
Risk Analysis<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Risk Simulation and Queuing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IN" style="color: #ff3300; font-size: 12.0pt;">IT/Programming<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Advanced Analytics and
Machine Learning with Hadoop<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Introduction to Analytics
using Hadoop<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Introduction to Python for
Analytics<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Social Data Mining With
Python<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">SQL and R - Introduction to
Database Queries<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IN" style="color: #ff3300; font-size: 12.0pt;">Biostatistics<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Advanced Survival Analysis<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Biostatistics 1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Biostatistics 2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Epidemiologic Statistics<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Meta Analysis<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Meta Analysis 2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Sample Size and Power
Determination<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Statistical Analysis of
Microarray Data with R<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Survival Analysis<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IN" style="color: #ff3300; font-size: 12.0pt;">Clinical
Trials<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Adaptive Designs for Clinical
Trials<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Biostatistics in R: Clinical
Trial Applications<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Clinical Trials -
Pharmacokinetics and Bioequivalence<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Introduction to Statistical
Issues in Clinical Trials<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Safety Monitoring Committees
in Clinical Trials<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Sample Size and
Power-Analysis for Cluster-Randomized and Multi-Site Studies<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IN" style="color: #ff3300; font-size: 12.0pt;">Social
Science<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Advanced Structural Equation
Modeling<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Analysis of Survey Data from
Complex Sample Designs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Introduction to Assessment
and Measurement<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Introduction to Structural
Equation Modeling<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Many-Facet Rasch Measurement<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Modeling Longitudinal and
Panel Data: GEE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Practical Rasch Measurement -
Core Topics<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Practical Rasch Measurement -
Further Topics<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Rasch Applications, Part 1:
How to Construct a Rasch Scale<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Rasch Applications, Part 2:
Clinical Assessment, Survey Research, and Educational Measurement<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Survey Analysis<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Survey Analysis in R<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Survey Design and Sampling
Procedures<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IN" style="color: #ff3300; font-size: 12.0pt;">Spatial
Analytics<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Mapping in R<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Spatial Analysis Techniques
in R<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Spatial Statistics with
Geographic Information Systems<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IN" style="color: #ff3300; font-size: 12.0pt;">Statistical
Modeling<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Advanced Logistic Regression<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Advanced Structural Equation
Modeling<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Categorical Data - Applied
Modeling<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Generalized Linear Models<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Introduction to Smoothing and
P-spline Techniques using R<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Introduction to Statistical
Modeling<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Introduction to Structural
Equation Modeling<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Logistic Regression<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Mixed and Hierarchical Linear
Models<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Modeling Count Data<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Modeling in R<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Modeling Longitudinal and
Panel Data: GEE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Multivariate Statistics<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Regression Analysis<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IN" style="color: #ff3300; font-size: 12.0pt;">Survey
Statistics<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Analysis of Survey Data from
Complex Sample Designs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Survey Analysis<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Survey Analysis in R<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Survey Design and Sampling
Procedures<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IN" style="color: #ff3300; font-size: 12.0pt;">Bayesian<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Bayesian Regression Modeling
via MCMC Techniques<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Bayesian Statistics in R<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Introduction to Bayesian
Computing and Techniques<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Introduction to Bayesian
Hierarchical and Multi-level Models<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Introduction to Bayesian
Statistics<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03520938060244354932noreply@blogger.com0State Highway 264, Maharashtra, India20.593684 78.96288-55.4946745 -82.75587 90 -119.31837000000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2530869670091980505.post-62395085883470375262014-03-17T11:15:00.000+05:302014-03-17T11:17:10.591+05:30Meta Analysis<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"The
scandalous failure of scientists to cumulate scientifically," a 2006 talk
by Sir Iain Chalmers, referred to the tendency of scientists to look at
individual studies in isolation, rather than as part of a systematic review of
the "body of evidence" on a given subject. Meta-analysis
provides the statistical methodology to aggregate multiple studies for a
general conclusion. Learn more in Dr. Michael Borenstein's and Dr. Hannah
Rothstein's online course, “<b>Meta Analysis</b>,” at statistics.com. For more
details please visit at </span><span lang="EN-IN"><a href="http://www.statistics.com/meta/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.statistics.com/meta/</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a half-second longer reaction time for drivers using a cell phone, while
another reports no effect from using a cell phone. Conclusions from
additional studies lie in between. How to resolve these
differences? When done right, Meta analysis can aggregate multiple
studies for a general conclusion. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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course:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meta-Analysis
refers to the statistical analyses that are used to synthesize summary data
from a series of studies. If the effect size (or treatment effect) is
consistent across all the studies in the synthesis, then the meta-analysis
yields a combined effect that is more precise than any of the separate
estimates, and also allows us to conclude that the effect is robust across the
kinds of studies sampled. By contrast, if the effect size (or treatment effect)
varies from one study to the next, the meta-analysis may allow us to identify
the reason for the variation and report (for example) that the treatment is
more effective in a particular kind of patient, or in a particular dose range.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In this course we
will discuss the logic of meta-analysis and the way that it is being used in
many fields, including medicine, education, social science, ecology, business,
and others. Participants will learn how to conduct a meta-analysis (how to
compute an effect size, compute summary effects, assess heterogeneity of
effects, test for differences in effect size across subgroups, and more). We
will also discuss various controversies in meta-analysis (such as the question
of mixing apples and oranges, the criticism of garbage-in-garbage-out). We will
also draw on recent headline-making analyses such as the Avandia meta-analysis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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get hands-on experience in performing analyses using Excel(tm) and also using
Comprehensive Meta-Analysis (CMA). All participants will have access to a free
trial of CMA for the duration of the course. At the conclusion of the course,
all participants should feel comfortable conducting a meta-analysis from start
to finish using this or other software.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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This Course:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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plan to perform a meta-analysis, or who want to be able understand
meta-analyses that have been published by others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">SESSION 1:</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Computing the Overall Effect in Meta Analysis<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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program<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">SESSION 2: Fixed
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<b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">SESSION 4:</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Publication Bias and other Issues in Meta Analysis<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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short narrated software demos, and supplemental readings available online.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(Director, Biostat, Inc.) and <b>Hannah R. Rothstein</b> (Professor, Baruch
College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York) are
co-authors (with Hedges and Higgins) of “Introduction to Meta-Analysis,” and
co-editors (with Sutton) of “Publication Bias in Meta-Analysis: Prevention,
Assessment and Adjustments.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03520938060244354932noreply@blogger.com0India20.593684 78.962880000000041-8.5815185000000014 37.654286000000042 49.7688865 120.27147400000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2530869670091980505.post-47286670532011530242014-03-10T15:06:00.002+05:302014-03-10T15:06:19.225+05:30Forecasting Analytics<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"I have seen
the future, and it is just like the present, only longer." This
quote from "The Profit" (a parody of "The Prophet")
actually contains subtle insight into statistical forecasting. It's not a magic wand - it is simply a
collection of tools for projecting into the future what we think we know about
how the present works. Statistical forecasting is both an art and a
science - the science part is covered in Dr. Galit Shmueli's "<b>Forecasting Analytics</b>,"
offered online at statistics.com. For more details please visit at </span><span lang="EN-IN"><a href="http://www.statistics.com/forecasting" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.statistics.com/forecasting</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Aim of Course:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This course will
teach you how to choose an appropriate time series forecasting method, fit the
model, evaluate its performance, and use it for forecasting. The course will
focus on the most popular business forecasting methods: Regression models,
smoothing methods including Moving Average (MA) and Exponential Smoothing, and
Autoregressive (AR) models. It will also discuss enhancements such as second-layer
models and ensembles, and various issues encountered in practice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Who Should Take
This Course:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Business analysts, sales forecasters,
economists, financial analysts, anyone who needs to produce, interpret or
assess forecasts will find this course useful. Participants should be familiar
with basic statistics, including linear regression.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Course outline:</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> The course
is structured as follows<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b>Session 1: Characterizing
Time Series and the Forecasting Goal; Evaluating Predictive Accuracy and Data
Partitioning</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Visualizing time series<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Forecasting vs. explanation<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Performance evaluation<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Session 2: Regression-Based Models</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Overview of forecasting methods<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Capturing trend seasonality and
irregular patterns with linear regression<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Measuring and interpreting
autocorrelation<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Evaluating predictability and the Random
Walk<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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(AR) models<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Session 3: Smoothing-Based Methods</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Model-driven vs. data-driven methods<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Centered and training Moving Average (MA)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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triple)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b>Session 4: Forecasting
in Practice</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(automation, managerial forecast adjustments, and more)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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(neural nets, ARIMA, and logistic regression)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Forecasting binary outcomes<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The instructor, <b>Dr.
Galit Shmueli</b>, Professor of Data Analytics at the Indian School of Business
(SRITNE) in Hyderabad, is a co-author of "Data Mining for Business
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Humans have taken their voices online
en-masse. Twitter publishes half a billion tweets each day. Over one billion
people engage their friends via Facebook. So what makes Facebook worth $170
billion - about $150 per active user? Mainly, it's the ability to sell things
to those users, based on analysis of their data and behavior. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Data Mining with Python</b>, is about.
You will use Python to extract valuable signals from these huge, chaotic
datasets to explain collective behavior and create computational knowledge
bases. Using Python, you will analyze user-generated content such as movie
ratings, online comments, status updates, and friendship networks. You will
learn algorithms from the fields of social network analysis, text analysis, and
recommender systems. Finally, you will gain experience with pragmatic workflows
that leverage social APIs to reveal human insights in your own projects. This course includes substantial Python
instruction, and is a good way for those with some Python familiarity to extend
their knowledge. The instructor of this course is Dr. Shilad Sen. For more details
about course and instructor please visit at <a href="http://www.statistics.com/python-social-data/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.statistics.com/python-social-data/</span></a>.
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This Course:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Programmers and statisticians familiar with
Python who want to learn how to do analysis of text and social network date;
analysts who know some Python and who want to deepen their Python knowledge by
learning how to mine social data.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Recommendation algorithms<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Refresher
on Python data structures<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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large datasets<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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noise in long-tailed datasets<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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time complexity in a nutshell<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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to recommendation algorithms<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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study: If you liked “Star Wars” you’ll like ??<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Introduction to text analysis in Python<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Python’s
“yield” keyword<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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weighting<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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that identify distinctive language<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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clustering<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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study: Distinctive language in subreddit communities<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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APIs<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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study: Datasift & sentiment analysis on Twitter<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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network analysis<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Network
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Facebook graph: visualization and community detection<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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predictive modeling methods to target voters in political campaigns? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Analytics at Statistics.com, which will teach you which aspects of campaigns
are especially important for modeling purposes, and the difference between
traditional targeting methods and more recent micro-targeting techniques. The
course covers what to measure and how to design surveys to measure it. The role of experiments is discussed, and you
will learn how television advertising, online advertising, and social media fit
in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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course "<b>Political Analytics</b>" at Statistics.com. </span></div>
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details please visit <a href="http://www.statistics.com/political-analytics/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.statistics.com/political-analytics</span>/</a>.
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This Course:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Data analysts who are familiar with predictive
modeling and want to learn how to apply it in the political world. Political consultants and staff who have had
some exposure to predictive modeling, and want to dive deeper and learn how it
is applied in a political campaign.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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campaigns need to target<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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of a campaign<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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the right targets for the right phase<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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individual level modeling and beginning the modeling process<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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targeting<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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pitfalls<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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new indicators<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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concepts and the future of political targeting<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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and natural experiments<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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for broadcast television<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Instructor <b>Mr. Ken Strasma </b>is
co-founder and CEO of HaystaqDNA, a firm that provides predictive analytics and
strategic consulting services for corporations, non-profits and membership
organizations. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Strasma served as targeting director for John
Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign, and for President Obama's 2008 campaign. Through
his firm Strategic Telemetry, Strasma produced the predictive analytics models
used by the campaigns, and helped popularize the use of that technology. Ken is
the author of numerous articles and studies regarding targeting, marketing,
demographics and social media analysis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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course. The courses take place online
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03520938060244354932noreply@blogger.com0India20.593684 78.962880000000041-8.5815185000000014 37.654286000000042 49.7688865 120.27147400000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2530869670091980505.post-19584289044211554432014-01-07T10:42:00.000+05:302014-01-07T10:42:11.212+05:30Data Mining in R<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt;">Data mining is a fast growing area in statistics, but if you lack
institutional access to standard data mining software from SAS and IBM/SPSS
your options are limited. If you are interested in Data Mining, Dr. Luis
Torgo's "<b>Data Mining in R-Learning with Case Studies</b>,"
online course introduce you to both R and data mining. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt;">This course teaches you how to do data mining in the
increasingly-dominant open-source R software. This course follows a "Lear
by doing it" strategy where data mining topics are introduced as needed
when addressing a series of real world data mining case studies. Join Dr. Luis
Torgo in his online course "Data Mining in R-Learning with Case
Studies," at statistics.com. For More details please visit at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-IN"><a href="http://www.statistics.com/data-mining-r" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.statistics.com/data-mining-r</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Aim of Course:</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The main goal of this course is to teach users
how to perform data mining tasks using R. The course follows a learn by doing
it strategy, where data mining topics are introduced as needed when addressing
a series of real world data mining case studies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Who can take this
course:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">R users who want to learn how to apply R to
data mining. Data mining analysts in
search of new tools. Students in
statistics.com's PASS program in Data Mining seeking an affordable data mining
tool. Note that working in R will be
more involved than using a specially designed interface for data mining, such
as those found in major commercial data mining programs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is structured as follows<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">SESSION 1: Predicting Algae Blooms (Case Study 1)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Descriptive statistics<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Blooms (Continuation of Case Study 1)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The instructor, Dr. Luis Torgo, is an Associate Professor
of the Department of Computer Science of the Faculty of Sciences of the
University of Porto and a researcher of the Laboratory of Artificial
Intelligence and Data Analysis (LIAAD) belonging to INESC Porto LA. He is
the author of Data Mining With R, as well as a number of scholarly articles and
other publications. He teaches R at different levels and has given courses in
the use of R for data mining in several countries. Dr. Torgo will be
available to course participants throughout the period, taking comments and
questions on a private discussion forum.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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comments with the instructors via a private discussion board throughout the
course. The courses take place online at statistics.com in a series
of 4 weekly lessons and assignments, and require about 15 hours/week.
Participate at your own convenience; there are no set times when you must be
online. You have the flexibility to work a bit every day, if that is your
preference, or concentrate your work in just a couple of days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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registration for its courses at special prices in Indian Rupees through its
partner, the Center for eLearning and Training (C-eLT), Pune.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03520938060244354932noreply@blogger.com0India20.593684 78.962885.536602 58.748036 35.650766 99.177724tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2530869670091980505.post-80858234152922635702013-07-09T12:22:00.000+05:302013-07-09T12:22:01.018+05:30Introduction to Social Network Analysis (SNA)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Social Network Analysis has existed for a long
time, but social media has fundamentally changed the way we do this analysis.
Data has become more plentiful and easy to collect, but this has pushed the
boundaries of existing techniques. Sociological methods do not easily scale to
the size of these networks, but purely statistical methods miss the complex
social interactions that take place. This course will teach a mix of
quantitative and qualitative methods for describing, measuring and analyzing
social networks. We will learn how to identify influential individuals, track
the spread of information through networks, and see how to use these techniques
on real problems.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to Social Network Analysis (SNA)</b>” online at Statistics.com. For more
details please visit at </span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://goo.gl/btJZW" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Social Network Analysis</span></a></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Anyone who wants to learn to analyze social
data - people who work in organizations with social media presences that they
want to manage and analyze, or those who work on these networks and want to
better understand the details of the environment they create.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is structured as follows<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Network Analysis Basics<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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The Social Network<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Applications<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03520938060244354932noreply@blogger.com0India20.593684 78.962880000000041-8.5815185000000014 37.654286000000042 49.7688865 120.27147400000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2530869670091980505.post-65101288541219406232013-07-04T11:35:00.000+05:302013-07-04T11:35:25.476+05:30Biostatistics 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Karl Pearson
founded the journal "Biometrika" 110 years ago, and laid the
foundation for today's classical biostatistics (chi-square test, hypothesis
testing, correlation, more). His political views, even for the times,
were unsavory (a proponent of eugenics, he advocated "war against the
inferior races"), but his statistical contributions remain embedded in the
technical and pedagogical literature. Statistics.com offers a two-course
online sequence in Biostatistics, starting with <b>Biostatistics 1</b> and
Biostatistics 2. Each course is 4 weeks long, and taught by Prof. Abhaya
Indrayan, co-author of "Medical Biostatistics." For more details
please visit at <b><a href="http://goo.gl/xGBwH" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Biostatistics 1</span></a>. <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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"Biostatistics 1" covers sensitivity-specificity and predictive
values of medical tests, confidence intervals, medical vs. statistical significance,
and chi-square, Student's t and ANOVA F-tests, including multiple comparisons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Should Take This Course:</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="background: white; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This non-mathematical course is specially
designed for medical and health professionals who deal with medical data and
want to acquire some statistical skills. These include nursing, pharmacy,
laboratory technology and nutrition professionals beside physicians, surgeons
and dentists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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probability<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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probability<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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medical test<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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predictive value<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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SEs<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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one-sample mean and proportion<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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median<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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differences between means and proportions<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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power<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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significance<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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one-sample and two-sample situations<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Indrayan, in addition to authoring "Medical Biostatistics," (2nd ed.,
CRC Press), has also written a book on medical research methods. He is
Chair of the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at the College
of Medical Sciences, University of Delhi, and frequently provides
biostatistical Consultation to the World Health Organization, the World Bank
and UNAIDS.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and exchange comments with the instructors via a private discussion board
throughout the course. The courses take place online at
statistics.com in a series of 4 weekly lessons and assignments, and require about
15 hours/week. Participate at your own convenience; there are no set
times when you must be online. You have the flexibility to work a bit every
day, if that is your preference, or concentrate your work in just a couple of
days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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accepts registration for its courses at special prices in Indian Rupees through
its partner, the Center for eLearning and Training (C-eLT), Pune.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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will cover the analysis and
interpretation of judge-intermediated ratings, like essay grading, Olympic
ice-skating, therapist ratings of patient behavior, etc. Specifically, you will
learn how to assess whether raters function (as desired) interchangeably, or whether
they differ systematically in ways that can impair the overall rating system. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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course “<b>Many-Facet Rasch Measurement</b>” online at Statistics.com. For more
details please visit at <a href="http://goo.gl/noppe" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Many-Facet Rasch Measurement</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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psychology, medicine and other fields who deal with data that include ratings
from human judges.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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measures and measurement rulers <o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03520938060244354932noreply@blogger.com0India20.593684 78.962880000000041-8.5815185000000014 37.654286000000042 49.7688865 120.27147400000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2530869670091980505.post-90114931152554831332013-07-03T14:44:00.000+05:302013-07-03T14:52:50.675+05:30Visualization in R with ggplot2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Plot,"
meaning a piece of land, came from Old English (origin around 1100), and soon
gave rise to the "graph" meaning of the term. The term
"ggplot" comes from Leland Wilkinson's book "Grammar of
Graphics," and refers to an R Project that codifies and implements
"best practices" in graphing. Dr. Randall Pruim will present
his course "Visualization in R with ggplot2," online at statistics.com.
</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">For more details
please visit at </span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://goo.gl/2ZdPv" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Visualization in R with ggplot2</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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In "<b>Visualization in R with ggplot2</b>", you will learn how to
use the ggplot R Project to make, format, label and adjust graphs using R. The "grammar of graphics" for which
ggplot is named is a system of describing and organizing the fundamental
components of a graph and the process of creating a graph. Using ggplot2,
participants will learn how to design and implement graphs in an efficient,
elegant and systematic manner, following principles of general good graphing
practice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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can take this course:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Statistical analysts who use R and need to
create or modify graphs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Course outline:</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> The course is structured as follows<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SESSION 1: Introduction to ggplot2</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How
to create basic plots (scatterplots, histograms, and barcharts) using
qplot()<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Setting
vs. mapping<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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to add extra variables with aesthetics (like color, shape, and size) or
faceting<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SESSION 2: Finer control over plots</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ggplot system: geoms, stats, and all that jazz<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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to display data in other forms (densityplots, boxplots, etc.) using geoms<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Techniques
for overcoming overplotting with drawing scatterplots of large datasets<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SESSION 3: Transformations</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Group-wise
summaries and transformations to add extra information to your plots<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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to visualize time series<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SESSION 4: Polishing Your Plots</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tweaking
your plots for maximum presentation impact<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Introduction
to color theory<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Labels,
legends, and axes<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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and adjusting the plot themes<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dr. Randall Pruim
is chair of Mathematics and Statistics department at Calvin College as well as
director of the Calvin’s Integrated Science Research Institute (ISRI), which
was founded in 2008 through a $1.1 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical
Institute. Dr. Pruim is also part of Project MOSAIC, an NSF-funded initiative
to improve the teaching of modeling, statistics, calculus, and computation
nationally. The mosaic R package, available on CRAN, is a product of Project
MOSAIC that makes it easier to teach calculus and statistics using R.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the Institute for 4 weeks. During each course week, you participate at times of
your own choosing - there are no set times when you must be online. The course
typically requires 15 hours per week. Course participants will be given access
to a private discussion board so that they </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">will be able to ask questions and exchange comments with
instructor, </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dr. </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Randall Pruim</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">. In class discussions led by the
instructor, you can post questions, seek clarification, and interact with your
fellow students and the instructor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03520938060244354932noreply@blogger.com0State Highway 264, Maharashtra, India20.593684 78.962885.536602 58.748036 35.650766 99.177724tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2530869670091980505.post-9593902756448223902013-06-26T15:41:00.000+05:302013-06-26T15:41:06.858+05:30Clinical Trials - Pharmacokinetics and Bioequivalence<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How quickly does
the human body absorb a drug? What are the effects of different
doses? Pharmaceutical companies study these issues in small, early-phase
studies that, before they undertake a large randomized study of a drug's safety
and efficacy. Learn more in "<b>Clinical Trials - Pharmacokinetics
& Bioequivalence</b>," which will be taught online by Dr. Vidyadhar
Phadke at statistics.com. For more details please visit at </span><span lang="EN-IN"><a href="http://www.statistics.com/bioequivalence" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.statistics.com/bioequivalence</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">. </span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This course
covers the statistical measurement and analysis methods relevant to the study
of pharmacokinetics (the absorption, distribution and secretion of drugs), dose-response
modeling and bioequivalence. In this course, you will apply the principles of
designing and analyzing clinical trials to the circumstances of several actual
trials. This course is primarily case oriented and will give you the
"hands-on" practice required in this demanding field.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">After taking this
course, participants will be able to specify the design of a new drug or new
device study, with the goal of establishing whether the new drug or device is
statistically equivalent to an existing therapy. This includes designing the
study in accordance with regulatory requirements, as well as appropriate
methods for analyzing data. Participants will also be able to fit statistical
models to dose-response data, with the goal of quantifying a reliable relationship
between drug dosage and average patient response.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Who Should Take
This Course:</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Analysts
responsible for designing, implementing or analyzing clinical trials.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is structured as follows<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 13.5pt;"><b>SESSION 1: Clinical Trials for Drugs
and Devices</b></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Clinical trials review<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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therapy and chiropractic therapy (two examined in the lesson, two for
homework)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 54pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;">
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<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Illustrative analysis of two cases</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b>SESSION 2: Pharmacokinetics (PK) and
Bioavailability</b></span></div>
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Basic concepts of PK<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">PK analysis of time-concentration data
(bioavailability assessment)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">o<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Estimation of Cmax, Tmax, AUC, Ke, Ka<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 54pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;">
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<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Dose-response modeling<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
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<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc">
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="circle">
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="square">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Michaelis-Menton model for
saturating relationship<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Power model: A model that
includes three shapes<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
<h1 style="background: white; line-height: 13.5pt; margin-top: 0cm;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></h1>
<h1 style="background: white; line-height: 13.5pt; margin-top: 0cm;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">BIOEQUIVALENCE –<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h2 style="background: white; line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 13.5pt;">SESSION 3: Inference for Pharmocokinetic
(PK) data</span></h2>
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Normality testing of PK parameters (AUC, Cmax)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Transformations for achieving normality (AUC,
Cmax)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Parametric (AUC, Cmax) and Non-parametric
tests (Tmax)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Bootstrap confidence interval for t1/2<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></h2>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b>Analysis of Dose-Response Data</b></span></div>
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Estimation of median effective dose<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Testing of dose proportionality in power model<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b>SESSION 4: Bioequivalence
Studies-Parallel Design</b></span></div>
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Statistical equality vs. clinical equivalence<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Testing bioequivalence (AUC)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">CI approach (AUC)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Testing bioequivalence (Cmax)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">CI approach (Cmax)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<h2 style="background: white; line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></h2>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Bioequivalence Studies 2 x 2
(Crossover Design)</span></div>
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">What is crossover design?<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Analysis of illustrative data using two sample
tests<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
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</ul>
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Testing equivalence using CI<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
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<b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dr. Vidyadhar Phadke</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is Senior
Statistician at Cytel Statistical Software and Services, the leading contract
research organization for advanced design of clinical trials. Dr. Phadke has responsibility for Cytel's
industry-leading software for adaptive trials (EaSt) and dose-ranging trials
(Compass).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">You will be able to ask questions
and exchange comments with the instructors via a private discussion board
throughout the course. The courses take place online at
statistics.com in a series of 4 weekly lessons and assignments, and require
about 15 hours/week. Participate at your own convenience; there are no
set times when you must be online. You have the flexibility to work a bit every
day, if that is your preference, or concentrate your work in just a couple of
days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to gain a familiarity with R to facilitate its use in more advanced courses.
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The One-Sample T-Test in R<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b>SESSION 2: The Two-Sample T-Tests, the Chi-Square GOF test in R<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b>SESSION 3: The Simple Linear Regression Model in R<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03520938060244354932noreply@blogger.com0India20.593684 78.962885.536602 58.748036 35.650766 99.177724tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2530869670091980505.post-19757182770204921002013-06-21T11:41:00.000+05:302013-06-21T11:41:02.200+05:30Natural Language Processing (NLP)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sophisticated machine
learning foundations lie behind it, one of which is natural language processing
(NLP). Nitin Indurkhya, a leading authority on NLP, will present his online
course on NLP at Statistics.com. </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">For more details please visit at </span><span lang="EN-IN"><a href="http://www.statistics.com/language" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.statistics.com/language</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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"<b>Natural Language Processing</b>" will introduce you to the
algorithms, techniques and software used in the rapidly growing field of
natural language processing (NLP). You will learn about existing
applications, particularly speech understanding, information retrieval, machine
translation and information extraction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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NLP draws heavily on work in computational linguistics and artificial
intelligence. The course textbook will provide the necessary background in
linguistics and computer science for those students who need it. In this
course only a portion of the textbook will be covered, however anyone going on
to do further studies in NLP will find the textbook a very useful reference.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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At the completion of the course, you should be able to read the description of
an NLP application and have an idea of how it is done, what the likely
weaknesses are, and often which claims are probably exaggerated. The course
also prepares students to do further work in NLP by giving them a good grasp of
the basic concepts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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can take this course:</span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Analysts,
researchers and managers who deal with, or might need to deal with, NLP systems
at a variety of levels - needs assessment, design, deployment and operation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Course outline:</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> The course is structured as follows<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">SESSION 1:
Introduction of NLP and Word-level Analysis<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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(review)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Sentence-level Processing<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Part-of-Speech Tagging<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Semantics<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Applications of NLP<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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co-author of "Text Mining" (Springer) and co-editor of the
"Handbook of Natural Language Processing" (CRC), was also Principal
Research Scientist at eBay and Professor at the School of Computer Science and
Engineering, University of New South Wales (Australia), as well as the founder
and president of Data-Miner Pty Ltd, an Australian company engaged in
data-mining consulting and education.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and exchange comments with the instructors via a private discussion board
throughout the course. The courses take place online at
statistics.com in a series of 4 weekly lessons and assignments, and require
about 15 hours/week. Participate at your own convenience; there are no
set times when you must be online. You have the flexibility to work a bit every
day, if that is your preference, or concentrate your work in just a couple of
days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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"Independent, identically-distributed" is the assumption behind basic
modeling methods. The real world is rarely so conveniently
arranged. Data within a school may be correlated (when compared to
observations from other schools in the study).
Likewise for patient treatment centers in multi-center clinical trials.
Learn how to deal with data like this in "<b>Modeling Longitudinal and
Panel Data: GEE</b>" with Dr. Joseph Hilbe and Dr. James Hardin, in their
online course at statistics.com. For more details please visit at </span><span lang="EN-IN"><a href="http://www.statistics.com/longitudinal" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.statistics.com/longitudinal</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">. </span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This course
covers the extension of Generalized Linear Models (GLM) to model varieties of
longitudinal and clustered data, called panel data. Specifically, the course
treats generalized estimating equations (GEE), a population averaging method
that models panel data in which the response is a member of the exponential
family of distributions; e.g., continuous, binary, grouped, and count. GEE is
one of several methods used to model panel data - the most noted alternative
being random effect models. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">The course will discuss GEE theory, relevant
correlation structures, and differences in both theory and application between
population averaging GEE (PA-GEE) and random effects or subject specific panel
models (SS-GEE).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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medical and psychological researchers who need to analyze and model
longitudinal or panel data.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Course outline:</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> The course is structured as follows<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Model Construction and Estimating Equations
for Panel data in general and PA-GEE specifically<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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matrix<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">SS-GEE models (random effect)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Hardin are the authors of "Generalized Estimating Equations" (Chapman
& Hall/CRC). Dr. Joseph Hilbe is Emeritus Professor at the University
of Hawaii and Solar System Ambassador with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at
California Institute of Technology. He is an elected Fellow of both the
American Statistical Association and Royal Statistical Society. Dr. James
Hardin is on the faculty at the University of S. Carolina, and also on the
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