Announcing Fall 2020 Workshops

CenterStat September 11, 2020

For the first time, CBA will be hosting a Fall online workshop series this December, including a new 2-day workshop on Applied Research Design using Mixed Methods from acclaimed instructor Greg Guest. The course schedule is:

December 2-4: Introduction to Multilevel Modeling
December 7-8: Applied Research Design using Mixed Methods
December 9-11: Introduction to Longitudinal Structural Equation Modeling
December 14-16: Introduction to Mixture Modeling and Latent Class Analysis

See our Workshops page for a general description of our teaching philosophy, course reviews and sample course notes.

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