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D-EF15 | MISSING DATA: ISSUES, AD-HOC APPROACHES AND PRINCIPLED ALTERNATIVES  

The course begins by offering an intuitive explanation of Rubin’s classification scheme for missingness mechanisms (MCAR, MAR, MNAR). It then moves on to a discussion of the deficiencies in a number of commonly used ad-hoc approaches to handling missing data, before introducing the method of multiple imputation, a principled approach for handling missing data under the MAR assumption… further details

I-SS14 | Text Analysis: A Qualitative and Quantitative Approach  

Today researchers across a wide variety of fields find themselves having to analyse an increasing amount of qualitative information. The objective of this summer school therefore, is to provide participants the requisite toolkit necessary for the successful planning, conducting and subsequent statistical analysis of qualitative text… further details