Multilevel Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling in MPLUS
We are pleased to announce the 3d LCSR Summer School
Summer school structure:
- The main two-weeks course “Multilevel Confirmatory Factor Analysis (MCFA) and Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling (MSEM) in MPLUS” will be given by professor Hermann Dülmer (University of Cologne), a well known methodologist who is currently the head of Data Archive for the Social Sciences in GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. Professor Dülmer has huge experience in teaching multilevel analysis at various summer schools (for example Summer School on Multilevel Analysis in Lisbon, LCSR summer school of 2011). Kirill Zhirkov (MSc, Utrecht University; M.A., European University at Saint Petersburg), a LCSR research fellow, will be assisting during the course.
- First week course (optional) “LATEX for Social Scientists” will be given by Alexander Kustov (PhD student of Princeton University).
- Second week course (optional) “Data Analysis using R and SQL” will be given by Irina Nikiforova (PhD from Georgia Institute of Technology) who is currently a research fellow at NRU HSE, St. Petersburg.
Application and Fees:
To apply for summer school you need to submit:
- Curriculum Vitae (2 pages, max)
- Сover letter with:
- an explanation why you need to attend this school (not more than 250 words);
- an abstract of your research project (not more than 300 words);
- a description of your data set that you are going to use in the lab sessions (not more than 200 words)
Applications should be sent by e-mail to hse.lcss@gmail.com by May 15, 2013. The results will be announced by May 30, 2013.
LCSR provides 30 places free of charge and covers the travel costs of participants. The selection will be based on written applications, the priority will be given to applicants from CIS countries who cannot cover the fees and travel costs by themselves. Additionally LCSR provides 15 places for 1000 euro fee which includes accommodation for 13 nights in a countryside holiday hotel (covering breakfast, lunch and dinner (buffet)) and summer school fees.
The detailed program for all three courses can be found here (lcsr.hse.ru/en/summer2013/description).