Course Information

• Multilevel Confirmatory Factor Analysis (MCFA) and Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling (MSEM) in MPLUS

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.

• LATEX for Social Scientists

First week course (optional) “LATEX for Social Scientists” will be given by Alexander Kustov (PhD student at Princeton University).

• Data Analysis Using R and SQL

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 HSE, St. Petersburg.