4 ESRC AQM Studentships at CMM22 December 2011We are pleased to invite applications for 4 ESRC '+3' studentships on the South West Doctoral Training Centre's Advanced Quantitative Methods in Social Science & Health (AQM) pathway.
Article about CMM, Autumn 20118 December 2011Behind every quantitative research project, there's a statistician waiting to make sense of the data
The Jon Rasbash Prize for Quantitative Social Science2 November 2011This new award has been established to commemorate the contributions to quantitative social science of Jon Rasbash, who was Professor of Computational Statistics and Director of the Centre for Multilevel Modelling at the University of Bristol.
CMM vacancy - Research Associate in Statistical Computing13 September 2011Working in the Centre for Multilevel Modelling, you will be a computational statistician/statistical programmer to join an interdisciplinary research team specialising in the production of statistical software that is used for the analysis of social data with complex structure to address important substantive research questions.
Research Assistant/Associate in Social Statistics17 August 2011The Centre for Multilevel Modelling at the University of Bristol is seeking to appoint an applied statistician to work on a new ESRC-funded project, Longitudinal Effects, Multilevel Modelling and Applications (LEMMA 3).
What is multilevel modelling? - short film10 May 2011Multilevel modelling: Trying to understand individual behaviour which can depend on a number of factors interacting in a complex way ...
New Realcom user forum5 May 2011New Realcom user forum - a Realcom section within the MLwiN user forum
Realcom and Realcom-Impute have been updated22 March 2011We no longer support the original mixed-responses module of Realcom as the functionality is included in Realcom-Impute. Because of this the original Realcom installer has been split into realcom-factor and realcom-measerr.
ESRC PhD studentships in Advanced Quantitative Methods- applications deadline 5pm, Monday 11th April4 March 2011The Advanced Quantitative Methods (AQM) pathway of the SWDTC offers ESRC +3 postgraduate research training in advanced quantitative methods in the social sciences and health. The pathway aims to raise the level of quantitative research skills among UK social scientists, in particular in advanced methods for secondary data analysis.
Realcom Impute updated15 February 2011A bug has been fixed in realcom-impute and realcom mixed response, that could have given incorrect values for some level 2 random effects associated with level 1 responses when level 1 categorical responses were present.