{"id":1608,"date":"2016-09-14T14:00:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T05:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/?p=1608"},"modified":"2020-08-03T11:24:50","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T02:24:50","slug":"the-first-cohort-graduates-from-the-essex-summer-school-in-waseda-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/news-en\/2016\/09\/14\/1608\/","title":{"rendered":"\u3010TGU Empirical Analyses of Political Economy\u3011The first cohort graduates from the Essex Summer School in Waseda Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

The University of Essex in the United Kingdom and the Center for Empirical Analyses of Political Economy at Waseda University <\/a>co-organized the \u201cEssex Summer School at Waseda University\u201d from July 25 to August 5, 2016.<\/p>\n\n

This year, the summer school offered the course \u201cMaximum Likelihood\u201d that was entirely taught in English and designed for the graduate students in the social sciences who had completed intermediate statistics and regression analysis. Enrolled students were not only from political science but also from a wider range of disciplines such as economics and communication studies.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Daina Chiba<\/p><\/div>\n

The course was taught by Dr. Daina Chiba (the Department of Government at the University of Essex) whose research interests include areas of militarized conflict, international institutions, and political methodology.<\/p>\n

In this course, students learned how to build a statistical model to explain the variation of a categorical (binary, ordinal, nominal) dependent variable. They commented that the language programming skills they have acquired will benefit them in their research. Upon completion, the students received a certificate from the University of Essex.<\/p>\n

More detailed information on the course can be found here:<\/p>\n