EDUCATION
New LearnSTAT Courses
for Fall 2008:
Introduction to Meta-Analysis
Presented by Michael Borenstein, Biostat
One-day short course
Friday, September 19, 2008
Marriott Teaneck at Glenpointe, Teaneck, New Jersey
This course offers an overview of all phases of a meta-analysis, including the goals,
The
computational issues, and interpretation. We will discuss various computational
Statistics
models (fixed effect, random effects, mixed models), explain the conceptual differ-
ences among these models, and then show how this translates into different com-
Teacher
putational formulas. We also will work through examples using several computer
programs. Finally, we will discuss some of the controversy surrounding meta-analysis,
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with many journals treating meta-analysis as the highest standard of evidence and
others seeing it as problematic.
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Using Negative Binomial Models for the Analysis of Counts
is now
Presented by Joseph M. Hilbe
One-day short course
online
Friday, October 3, 2008
ASA Office, Alexandria, Virginia
This course provides an overview of the derivation of the negative binomial, both as a
STN is a free publication that keeps
grades K–12 teachers informed of
Poisson-gamma mixture and as a probability function. We will discuss the differences
statistical workshops; programs;
in stand-alone maximum likelihood models and negative binomial models found in
and reviews of books, software,
generalized linear models software. We also will discuss the nature of overdispersion,
and calculators. In addition, articles
differentiating between real and apparent overdispersion, and how we deal with both
are included that describe statistical
types. In addition, all the major varieties of negative binomial will be examined in
activities that have been successful in
light of how each resolves some type of distributional violation, or how it better fits
the classroom.
the data at hand. We also will investigate the canonical negative binomial, NB-C,
and show how it is a viable count model, regardless of its independence from the If you want to be informed of when
Poisson. The goal of this course is to provide the background necessary to properly
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Editor of Statistics Education Web Selected
The STEW Search Committee is pleased to announce W. Scott Street IV as the
Experience the new
first editor of Statistics Education Web, or STEW, the online bank of peer-reviewed
electronic format!
lesson plans for K–12 teachers of mathematics and science. Street will serve as editor
from 2009–2011, with orientation beginning in 2008. His job will be to select lesson
plans that showcase the use of statistical methods and ideas in science and mathematics
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