This page lists some training activities in which we have been involved, and includes some PowerPoint presentations that can be viewed.
This is a brief presentation given at the joint RSS Statistical Computing section and ASC meeting on New Approaches to Software for Statistical Processing, on 21st January 2004. It consists mainly of a presentation of the data structures handled by triple-s and by the StatDataML system implemented in R and S. Click here to download the complete PowerPoint presentation (282Kb).
This is a presentation and accompanying paper, given to
the ASC conference on Open Standards on 19th September 2002. Click here
to
download the paper as a zipped Word file (105Kb), or here
for the PowerPoint presentation (426Kb).
This is a presentation given at the RSS Statistical Computing section
meeting on Statistical Environments for the 21st century, on 21st
November 2001. Click here
to view the presentation online, or you can download
the complete PowerPoint presentation as a zip file (640Kb).
The Department of Social Statistics at Southampton University runs a modular (2-year part time) MSc in Official Statistics, aimed primarily at staff in the UK Government Statistical Service, but open to others (and with the modules available as separate short courses). Details can be found here on the Southampton site.
Andrew Westlake organises the module on Statistical
Computing, which is designed to
provide some
insight into the IT issues and choices that relate to official statistics.
It is offered every other year, and last
ran in the week beginning 16th February 2009. Click here
for details of the course content.
For some time the IASC has organised a Summer
School in years when there is not a Compstat meeting. In June 2001 Andrew Westlake gave a presentation on IT Issues
for Large Surveys (drawing on a subset of material from the Southampton module), and the presentation is available for viewing
here
(PowerPoint, 1.9Mb).
Page last updated 27 February 2009 .