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Newsletter 1
Chiang Mai Training Workshop Newsletter 24 October 1999
This newsletter will be used to communicate with you as we plan and organize the training workshop at the Chiang Mai Conference on Partnership Networks and the Spread of HIV and other Infectious Diseases. ******************************************************************* Several of you have written to regarding the use of your own datasets
during the training workshop in Chiang Mai. This has raised several
questions that seem to be worth thinking about as a group.
1. We are currently planning to have 3 half-day sessions for the workshop. The tentative plan is to cover the following material: * Survey design issues: sampling, questionnaires, and data management. * Local network methods: mixing matrices, concurrency * Complete network methods: global network statistics and UCINET Let us know if there are specific topics you would like to see covered
in one of these sessions.
2. We would like to send around the descriptions of current projects
that each of you provided to all of the training fellows. Do any
of you have any objection to this?
3. We will expect you to give a brief (5 min) description of your project
on the first day of the workshop. Please let us know if you will
need an overhead projector, laptop projector, or slide projector.
4. Would you be interested in having a session in which you have the
opportunity to present your current work and get some feedback on how to
plan or analyze your study? If you do not want to present yourself,
would you be interested in attending such a session? One option would
be to organize this session near the end of the conference, after you have
had a few days to experiment with the methods described during the training
workshop, and after hearing the presentations from the main research teams.
Just as a point of clarification: For those of you bringing network datasets from your own studies, your data set will not be distributed to others, it is only for your own personal use. It will remain on your computer alone, and be analyzed by you alone. The idea is to have you use the computer programs on your own data (after using them on simple provided data sets). Our goal is to have you leave with a solid understanding of the methods, and some programs and results from your own data to get started. 5. Laptop requirements It would be very helpful if we can plan on everyone running at least Windows 95. A processor of at least 100Mhz, 2 Mb ram, and 300 MB free on your hard drive will be needed to run the software we will provide. Please let us know *immediately* (by replying to morrism@u.washington.edu)
whether the laptop you are bringing will meet these requirements, and if
not, what it lacks. We also expect to provide some laptops, as we
understand not everyone will be bringing one. To make sure we
have an accurate count of the number needed, please also notify us by email
if you are *not* able to bring a laptop.
Questions? Suggestions? Please let us know. We hope to make this an interesting and productive workshop for all. best,
Contact Information:
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Abstracts must be sent via fax or Email to Renee Latour at IUSSP by March 30, 2000. Fax +32 4 222 38 47. Email: latour@iussp.org