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Training on Data Exploration: Using R REPOA invites beginning and junior researchers or policy analysts interested in poverty studies to a training workshop on “Exploratory Data Analysis:Using R”.The objective of this workshop is to provide practical guidance to beginning researchers on how to use data description as a tool for discovery, i.e. getting ideas from the data (hypothesis searching). Course Content includes:
- Principles and methods of exploratory data analysis – univariate, bivariate and multivariate
- Tools to visualize quantitative data from a perspective of hypothesis searching
- Introduction to Open source software R – a powerful statistical software package
The training workshop will be held in Dar es Salaam from 26 – 30 July 2010. Participants will be sponsored for their travel and accommodation. Applicants Requirements: Minimum of a first degree, and preferably in Economics A background in statistics and / or econometrics Some experience in research is preferable Involvement in routine data collection on own field and/or survey or panel data or work with official data will be an added advantage Knowledge with at least one spreadsheet software such as Excel
Applicants should submit: I. A typed application together with a duly filled information sheet available at REPOA offices and on Repoa website II. Detailed curriculum vitae, including photocopies of degree certificates The application period for this training workshop is now CLOSED. Only successful applicants will receive a response from REPOA by 16th July 2010. Women are highly encouraged to apply. To download the Duly filled information sheet please click here
All applications should be addressed to the Executive Director. Last published: July, 2010
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