Does The Methodology Center offer courses?
The Methodology Center offers both courses for credit toward an academic degree and non-credit workshops and continuing education courses. The Center partners with academic departments such as Human Development & Family Studies, Health Policy & Administration and Biobehavioral Health to offer courses for credit. We offer a suite of three one-credit methodology courses every Spring semester. These are relatively advanced graduate courses. Topics covered in 2007 include latent class and latent transition analysis and missing data; topics covered in 2008 include time series, mediation, and complex systems; topics covered in 2009 include latent class and latent transition analysis, methods for subgroup identification, and missing data. More information is available here. We offer a yearly Institute on Innovative Methods funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. This is a three-day hands-on workshop. At the moment this is the only workshop or continuing education activity that the Cen
