TCRN investigators offer semester-long and short courses that teach students in the statistical and social sciences about advanced modeling in official statistics and data dissemination, thereby increasing the pipeline of researchers and practitioners in survey methods. Courses are described below. For details and timing of TCRN and other short courses of interest, see the Events Calendar.of the Duke Social Sciences Research Institute.
- Short course on missing data given at the Odum Institute in February 2016 (PowerPoint, pdf)
- TCRN short courses given to Duke SSRI affiliates:
- Mixed membership models in the social sciences
- Missing data methods
- Advanced Markov Chain Monte Carlo
- Introduction to survey research
- Best practices in survey question writing
- Introduction to survey experiments
- Introduction to Qualtrics survey software
- Semester courses at Duke:
- STA 321: Statistics of Surveys
- POLSCI 704: Measuring Public Opinion: Survey Methods and Design
- Workshop on Using the Survey of Income and Program Participation (joint with University of Michigan)
- Workshop on using SIPP at Population Association of America 2015 meeting
