AEA eStudy 023: Applications of Correlation and Regression: Mediation, Moderation, and More - Dale Berger

AEA eStudy 023: Applications of Correlation and Regression: Mediation, Moderation, and More - Dale Berger 
Dates: Wednesdays January 9, 16, 23, and 30 1:30-3:00 PM ET. For one registration fee, participants may attend 1 or allsessions. 
Length: 6 total contact hours 
Description: Multiple regression is a powerful and flexible tool that has wide applications in evaluation and applied research. Regression analyses are used to describe multivariate relationships, test theories, make predictions with data from experimental or observational studies, and model relationships, including interactions.

Issues we'll explore in this eStudy course include assessing data issues that may impact correlations and regression, selecting models that are appropriate to your data and research questions, preparing data for analysis, running analyses with SPSS, interpreting results, and presenting findings to a nontechnical audience. The facilitator will demonstrate applications from start to finish with live SPSS and Excel. Attendees will be given readings and examples before each session. Detailed handouts include examples and explanations that can be used at home to guide similar applications.

This eStudy course is aimed evaluators with an intermediate level of expertise. Attendees should be comfortable with basic SPSS and basic inferential and descriptive statistics, including correlation and regression. This course is divided into four 90-minute sessions. Study materials will be provided before sessions.

Day 1 – This session will review basic correlation and regression, and explore factors that may affect the validity and interpretation of analyses with correlations and regression.

Day 2 – This session will focus on the logic of mediation analysis and procedures for conducting analysis with SPSS, interpreting output, and presenting findings.

Day 3 – This session will focus on interactions and moderation analyses with SPSS, interpreting output, and presenting findings.

Day 4 – This session will explore applications of multiple regression and how to present regression findings to a lay audience.

Presenter: Dale Berger of Claremont Graduate University is a lauded teacher of workshops and classes in statistical methods. Recipient of the outstanding teaching award from the Western Psychological Association, he is also the author of "Using Regression Analysis" in The Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation. His statistics website is available at http://wise.cgu.edu.
Register: https://www.eval.org/webinar_reg/Registrationtop.asp 
Last day to register is Thursday January 3