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Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (QMSS)

Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (QMSS). Chris Skinner University of Southampton. What is QMSS?. 12 workshop/seminars over summers of 2004, 2005, 2006 participants: junior researchers from 19 European countries 7 day workshop with instruction and computer-based sessions

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Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (QMSS)

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  1. Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (QMSS) Chris Skinner University of Southampton

  2. What is QMSS? • 12 workshop/seminars over summers of 2004, 2005, 2006 • participants: junior researchers from 19 European countries • 7 day workshop with instruction and computer-based sessions • 2 day seminar with research presentations • follow-up short visits

  3. 2006 Workshop/Seminars • ‘Measurement, Data Collection and Data Quality Issues for Cross-National Survey Data’, Saris and van der Veld, Switzerland, August • ‘Networks and Behavior: Statistical Models and Advances in the Theory of Action ‘, Snijders and Lazega, Netherlands, September • ‘Models for Longitudinal and Incomplete Data’, Molenberghs and Verbeke, Belgium, September • ‘Theory-Driven Evaluation and Intervention Studies in the Social Sciences’, Schmidt, Bamberg and Davidov, Cyprus, September

  4. Conference, 21-23 June 2007, Prague • 9 invited plenary papers including overviews of 5 topic areas: • Longitudinal data • Network data • Cross-national cross-sectional data • Intervention studies • Measurement, data collection and data quality • Many papers in parallel sessions from participants at QMSS workshop/seminars

  5. 2007+ • Positive mid-term review of QMSS by ESF • Support for continuation beyond 2007

  6. Why QMSS? • increase human capacity in quantitative methods in Europe, in particular by development of pan- European networks • share knowledge of new methods and methodological challenges and hence encourage new quantitative research • encourage analysis of large pan- European datasets

  7. QMSS at Methods Festival • Call for papers from 2004 and 2005 workshop/seminar participants • Poster session • Papers in this session

  8. More information http://www.s3ri.soton.ac.uk/qmss/

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