Briefly speaking, a respondent%E2%80%99s answer can only be as good as the question being asked. Thus, an effective questionnaire is a key component of a survey contributing to overall data quality. In addition to an overview of theoretical principles underlying questionnaire design this course

This course provides an introduction to the theory and application of Multiple Imputation (MI) (Rubin 1987) which has become a very popular way for handling missing data, because it allows for correct statistical inference in the presence of missing data. With the advent of MI algorithms

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to measurement error (ME) in survey research. This is a crucial topic because there are always errors in the measurement and if we do not take this into account, substantive results may be completely wrong without realizing it. First, we will

Cross-cultural surveys are increasingly being set up in numerous disciplines and around the globe. They allow testing for the generality of hypotheses across cultures and systematic research into institutional and other contextual differences. While it is essential to have a sound knowledge of

Bolgar International Archeological Field School is an academic program offered by Kazan Federal University (Russia) in collaboration with Khalikov Institute of Archeology(Russia). The School is held annualy and hosted by the International Archeological Research Centre located in Bolgar, Republic of

This is a hands-on graduate-level course teaching key techniques to analyse and estimate macroeconomics models. It teaches the key building blocks of numerical analysis such as function approximation and numerical integration. The course shows how these techniques are used in perturbation and

This course aims to provide participants with an introduction to latent variables and structural equation models for both continuous and categorical data and their use in measurement and in modelling complex substantive hypothesis in the social sciences. It provides a balance between methods and

This course in intended for both active practitioners of the ion beam analysis and users of the analysis services in the field of cultural heritage and environment studies. The main focus of the course is in particle induced X-ray emission (PIXE). The course will cover basic physics behind PIXE

The structure in the universe today arguably originates from tiny quantum fluctuations generated during inflation in the very early universe. The lectures provide a concise introduction to elementary inflationary physics and its current observational status. The key aspects of inflationary dynamics

In 1961, Ciesielski established a remarkable isomorphism of spaces of H%C3%B6lder continuous functions and Banach spaces of real valued sequences. The isomorphism can be established along Fourier type expansions of (rough) H%C3%B6lder continuous functions by means of the Haar-Schauder wavelet. We