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<p style="padding-left:5px;">The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is pleased to announce the 2014 Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research. For detailed, up-to-date information about the <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/sumprog/">Summer Program</a>, visit icpsr.umich.edu/sumprog</p>
<p style="padding-left:5px;">The ICPSR Summer Program offers lectures and workshops in a wide variety of topics in research design, quantitative reasoning, statistical methods, and data processing. Many of these courses are presented in two four-week sessions held on the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The first session runs from June 23-July 18, 2014. The second session runs from July 21-August 15, 2014.</p>
<p style="padding-left:5px;">From May through August, the ICPSR Summer Program also offers more than 35 three- to five-day workshops on both statistical and substantive topics. Many of these short workshops take place in Ann Arbor, but several are held in other locations, including Amherst, MA; Berkeley, CA; Boulder, CO; Chapel Hill, NC; Manhattan, NY; and Montreal, Quebec, Canada.</p>
<p style="padding-left:5px;">Several noteworthy features of the 2014 Summer Program include:</p>
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<li>A <strong>15% discount</strong> on registration fees for returning Summer Program participants</li>
<li>A <strong>15% discount</strong> on total registration fees when you register for two or more 3- to 5-day workshops (does not include sponsored substantive workshops)</li>
<li>A continuing emphasis on <strong>data science, network analysis,</strong> and <strong>multilevel modeling</strong></li>
<li><strong>Courses of special interest to diverse audiences</strong>, including "Methodological Issues in Quantitative Research on Race and Ethnicity," "Collaborative Multi-Racial and Ethnic Political Survey," and "The Pathways to Desistance Study: Analyzing the Life Event Calendar Data for Substance Abuse"</li>
<li>Several <strong>new 3- to 5-day workshops</strong>, including "Bayesian Methods for Prevention and Intervention Science" and "Latent Class Analysis in Social Science Research"</li>
<li>The new four-week workshop "Empirical Modeling for Theory Evaluation," exploring EITM-themed materials</li>
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<p style="padding-left:5px;">The course list for the 2014 ICPSR Summer Program reflects the expressed interests of the social scientific research community and provides coverage of statistical procedures of increasing importance to methodologists.</p>
<h2 style="background-color:#deedc3;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;padding-left:5px;width:450px;color:#496627;">Registration</h2>
<p style="padding-left:5px;">Registration is now open for all 2014 courses. For further information, including a full list of courses, course descriptions, faculty, registration information, fees, and financial support, please visit the <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/sumprog/">ICPSR Summer Program website</a> at icpsr.umich.edu/sumprog</p>
<p style="padding-left:5px;">Questions? Contact the ICPSR Summer Program at (734) 763-7400 or <a href="mailto:sumprog@icpsr.umich.edu">sumprog@icpsr.umich.edu</a></p>
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<p style="padding:10px;">ICPSR Summer Program<br />
P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1248<br />
sumprog@icpsr.umich.edu<br />
www.icpsr.umich.edu/sumprog | (734) 763-7400
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