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Upcoming Events

No event planned for Fall of 2009

Prior Conferences

Mapping Your Spatially Referenced Data with ArcGIS
Spring of 2009

This hands-on training provides a brief introduction to ArcGIS software. The focus of this course is on teaching beginner users how to bring tabular data into a GIS environment and begin mapping it for descriptive and or analytic purposes. The instructor will also offer an overview of more advanced ArcGIS functions related to data production, manipulation, and integration.

Location: Room 3218 William H. Sewell Social Science Building at UW-Madison
Date: 3/31, 4/2
Time: 2:00 P.M.- 3:30 P.M.
Instructor: Dave Long

Demography - Social Science - Statistics Workshop
Spring of 2009

This series of four statistical workshops will focus on recent advancements in spatial data analysis and the potential applications to demography. We will discuss some perspective on the types of problems encountered in demography for which spatial statistical methods can be helpful. Spatial dependence and spatial heterogeneity will be covered. The background of some of the underlying statistical ideas will be presented.

Location: Agriculture Hall 354 at UW-Madison
Date: 4/2, 4/9, 5/7
Time: 12:20 P.M.- 1:50 P.M.

Location: Agriculture Hall 301 at UW-Madison
Date: 4/23
Time: 12:20 P.M.- 1:50 P.M.

Women's Health and Retirement Security: How Far We Have Come and Where We Need to Go
Fall of 2008

A Preconference Workshop at the Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting, in National Harbor, Maryland on November 21, 1:30 pm – 5:30 pm

GeoDa Workshops
Fall of 2008

The Applied Population Lab is offering three workshops on using GeoDa. GeoDa is software designed to provide a graphical interface to methods of descriptive spatial data analysis, such as spatial autocorrelation statistics, as well as basic spatial regression functionality. For more information about GeoDa, visit this site: https://www.geoda.uiuc.edu/.

Location: Room 3218 William H. Sewell Social Science Building at UW-Madison
Date: 10/3, 10/10, and 10/17
Time: 9:30 A.M.- 11:30 A.M.
Topics: Spatial Weights and Spatial Autocorrelation in Geoda, Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis in Geoda, and Spatial Regression Analysis in Geoda and R
Instructors: Bill Buckingham and Dave Long

Introduction to R Programming
Spring of 2008

William Whipple Neely from the UW Statistics Department gave a series of workshops on R Programming on 2/15, 2/22, 2/29, 3/7 at 10:30 A.M. in Room 2470 William H. Sewell Social Science Building at UW-Madison.

Personality Measurement in Large Longitudinal Surveys Workshop, Fall of 2007

This workshop is sponsored by the Center on Demography and Economics of Aging (University of Chicago), Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor) and the Center for Demography of Health and Aging (University of Wisconsin-Madison). Personality measurements used in various longitudinal studies were discussed at this workshop on November 5-6.

Statistical Methodology Workshop Series III, Spring of 2007

This third series was devoted to causal inference from data with non-random assignment. In particular, there was discussion of the so-called propensity scoring matching and its advantages and shortcomings...(Read more)

Statistical Methodology Workshop Series II, Fall of 2006

The main theme of the second series was sampling of hidden or hard-to-find populations...(Read more)

Statistical Methodology Workshop Series I, Spring of 2006

The first statistical methodology series was devoted to the issue of multiple imputation...(Read more)

Future of Cognitive Aging Research Conference, May 20-22, 2005

CDHA co-sponsored an International conference on the Future of Cognitive Aging Research held at the Pennsylvania State University...(Read more)

Statistical Disclosure Control for Data Confidentiality, November 10-12, 2004

Three specialists from Statistics Netherlands, Anco Johannes Hundepool, Eric Schulte Nordholt, and Peter Paul de Wolf, will conduct the training workshop, which will provide participants with an understanding of the theoretical mathematical aspects of statistical disclosure control and the application of these methods using the ARGUS software. (Read more...)

Training Workshop: Nesstar Software Suite, June 4-5, 2003

The training workshop was hosted by CDHA in partnership with the University of Wisconsin Survey Center (UWSC) and the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH)... (Read more)

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