Quantitative Methods in the
Social Sciences 2
Summer School on Analysing the life course
Introduction to event history analysis with a special focus on cross-national comparisons
| Venue: | INSEE School (Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Economique) 3 avenue Pierre Larousse – F 92245 Malakoff Cedex, France (http:// www.ensae.fr/) |
| Date: | 18-26 August 2009 (start on Tuesday 18 at 5pm, end on Wednesday 26 at 2pm) |
| Instructors: | Professor Hans-Peter Blossfeld (University of Bamberg, Germany) Professor Melinda Mills (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) |
| Assistants: | Sandra Buchholz and Katrina Kolb (University of Bamberg), |
| Guest Speakers: | Professor Jeroen Vermunt (University of Tilburg, The Netherlands) |
| Professor Fiona Steele (Centre for Multilevel Modelling, University of Bristol, UK) | |
| Professor Louis-André Vallet (CNRS, Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique, France) |
Summary:
The aim of this summer school is to introduce students to event history analysis, with a focus on cross-national comparisons and advances in the field. In addition to practical computer exercises, students will also learn the mathematical and theoretical fundamentals of these techniques. Guest speakers will focus on advances in the field, including topics such as multilevel event history models, the relationship between survival and Poisson regression models and log-multiplicative modelling.
Schedule
| Tuesday 18 | Welcome drink at 5 pm at ENSAE Short presentation of organisational aspects by the local team First dinner together in a nearby restaurant |
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| Wednesday 19 | Hans-Peter Blossfeld | Introduction to Event History Analysis (=EHA) |
| Thursday 20 | Hans-Peter Blossfeld | Introduction to EHA |
| Friday 21 | Melinda Mills | Cross-national comparisons using EHA |
| Saturday 22 | Melinda Mills | Cross-national comparisons using EHA |
| Sunday 23 | Free time in Paris One-hour sightseeing cruise on the River Seine with a "Bateau-Mouche" |
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| Monday 24 | Jeroen Vermunt | The relationship between Survival Models and Poisson Regression Models |
| Tuesday 25 | Fiona Steele | Multilevel Event History Analysis |
| Last dinner together | ||
| Wednesday 26 | Louis-André Vallet | Recent Advances in Log-Multiplicative Modelling |
| End of the Summer School after lunch | ||
Preparatory Reading
For Fiona Steele's lecture:
Judith D. Singer and John B. Willett (1993) "It's about Time: Using Discrete-Time Survival Analysis to Study Duration and the Timing of Events", Journal of Educational Statistics, Vol. 18, No. 2, 155-195.
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