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Professional Development Workshops in Quantitative Analysis

  • July 2012: TBA

  • 6-10 February 2012: Advanced time-series methods, working efficiently with Stata and data management; Stata programming; graphing with Stata.

  • 18-22 July 2011: Survival analysis, working efficiently with Stata and data management; Stata programming; econometric modelling and statistical testing; graphing with Stata; time-series analysis.

  • 15-18 February 2011: Working efficiently with Stata, general programming; data visualisation, programming estimation commands.

  • 21-25 June 2010: multiple imputation; intro to Stata and the management of data; proficient programming with Stata; econometric modelling and statistical testing; panel data analysis; time series analysis.

  • 10-12 February 2010: multilevel/mixed models; working efficiently with Stata 11.

  • 13-17 Jul 2009: Stata programming and Mata secrets; intro to Stata and the management of data; econometric modelling; survey data analysis; panel data analysis.

  • 23-25 Jul 2008: introduction to Stata; data management; time-series analysis; panel data analysis.

Affiliation of participants

MEAFA's professional development workshops are widely recognised by industry, government and academia for their state-of-the-art content. By year-end 2011, we have had more than 400 attendees. Below is a list of organisations sending executives, researchers and research students to our workshops, to date:

Government

  • Australian Bureau of Statistics
  • Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
  • Australian Institute of Criminology
  • Australian Institute of Family Studies
  • Centrelink Australia
  • Department of Defence, Federal Gvt
  • Department of Education, Federal Gvt
  • Department of Immigration and Citizenship, Federal Gvt
  • Flinders Medical Centre, South Australia
  • Food Standards Australia and New Zealand
  • Frameworks for Health, St Vincent's Health
  • International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
  • NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research
  • NSW Commission for Children & Young People
  • NSW Department of Community Services
  • NSW Department Of Human Services
  • Northern Territory Department of Health & Families
  • Office of Fair and Safe Work, Queensland
  • Princess Alexandra Hospital
  • Productivity Commission
  • Royal North Shore Hospital
  • Queensland Department of Employment, Economic Development & Innovation
  • Queensland Health
  • Reserve Bank of Australia
  • Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre
  • Sydney South West Area Health Service
  • The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
  • WA Health, Government of Western Australia

Industry

  • Access Economics
  • Australia and New Zealand School of Government
  • BakerIDI Heart and Diabetes Institute
  • Ballarat Health Services
  • Cancer Council Victoria
  • Centre for Corporate Public Affairs
  • The Children's Hospital at Westmead
  • Deloitte
  • Frontier Economics
  • Garvan Institute of Medical Research
  • George Institute for International Health
  • Health Frameworks Pty Ltd
  • Healthmaps Pty Ltd
  • Hunter Industrial Medicine
  • National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance
  • National Prescribing Service
  • KMPG
  • The Allen Consulting Group
  • Price Waterhouse Coopers
  • Promotion and Primary Health Care
  • Recognition Public Relations
  • Rheumatology St George Hospital of NSW
  • Woolcock Institute of Medical Research

Academia

  • Ageing Research Unit (ANU)
  • Australian Demographic and Social Research (ANU)
  • Brain and Mind Research Institute (Sydney)
  • Bond University School of Business
  • Cancer Prevention Research Centre (UQ)
  • Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention (Deakin)
  • Crawford School on Public Policy (ANU)
  • Health Economics Research and Evaluation (CHERE, UTS)
  • Centre for the Study of Choice (UTS)
  • Copenhagen Business School
  • Deakin Graduate School of Business
  • Flinders Business School
  • Griffith University Business School
  • Kirby Institute (UNSW)
  • Marcs Auditory Laboratories (UWS)
  • Macquarie Graduate School of Management
  • Macquarie University Department of Psychology
  • Menzies School of Health Research
  • Monash Injury Research Institute
  • Monash University Faculty of Business and Economics
  • Murdoch Children Research Institute
  • National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (ANU)
  • National Centre in HIV Social Research (UNSW)
  • National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (Canberra)
  • National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (UNSW)
  • National Institute of Labour Studies (Flinders)
  • Queensland University of Technology Business School
  • RMIT Business SChool
  • Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research (UQ)
  • Queensland University of Technology School of Economics and Finance
  • School of Law and Legal Studies (La Trobe)
  • Social Policy Research Centre (UNSW)
  • Sydney School of Public Health
  • Telethon Institute Child Health Research (UWA)
  • Texas A&M University Mays Business School
  • Toulouse Business School, France
  • The Group of Eight Universities
  • The University of Adelaide Business School
  • The University of Adelaide School of Mathematical Sciences
  • The University of Auckland Business School
  • The University of Sydney Business School
  • The University of School of Economics
  • University of Canberra Faculty of Business & Government
  • University of Canterbury College of Business and Economics
  • University of Melbourne Faculty of Business and Economics
  • University of Otago School of Business
  • University of South Australia The International Graduate School of Business
  • University of the South Pacific Graduate School of Business
  • University of Sussex School of Business, Management and Economics
  • University of Tasmania Faculty of Business
  • University of Western Sydney College of Business and Law
  • University of Wollongong Sydney Business School at UOW
  • UNSW Australian School of Business
  • UQ Business School (The University of Queensland)
  • Victoria University of Wellington, Victoria Management School