Short courses will be arranged by the ISI and its Associations, with the support of IBGE, during 23-25 July 2015. They will be held at facilities offered by IBGE in Rio de Janeiro. The venue addresses are provided below.
All Congress delegates are welcome to register. There will be a fee for each short course, which is kept as low as possible just to recover the costs. The fees for developing country participants are offered at a discount rate thanks to a grant from the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), who is also offering some funding opportunities for younger participants from South and Latin America (see complete announcement).
| Course Duration | Registration fee € | |
| Developed Country | Host & Developing Country | |
| 1 day | € 180 | € 100 |
| 2 days | € 300 | € 180 |
Registration for the short courses closes on 10 June 2015 and can and be made together with registration for the main Congress. A minimum of 10 registered participants is required for the each course to be confirmed.
Course venues:
IBGE Dissemination Centre
Rua General Canabarro, 706, Maracanã
Rio de Janeiro – RJ
IBGE – National School of Statistical Sciences (ENCE)
Rua André Cavalcanti, 106, Centro
Rio de Janeiro – RJ
The following is a list of the Short Courses (SC) and their instructors (click on the course code for more information about each course):
| Number | Date | Title | Instructor(s) |
| SC01 | Thurs. 23 & Fri. 24 | Introduction to Survey Sampling | Colm O’Muircheartaigh & Steven Heeringa |
| SC02 | Thurs. 23 & Fri. 24 | Advanced Topics in Survey Sampling |
Jae-kwang Kim, Wayne A. Fuller & Pushpal Mukhopadhyay |
| SC03 | Thurs. 23 & Fri. 24 | Price and Volume Indices in Official Statistics | Jens Mehrhoff |
| SC04 | Thurs. 23 & Fri. 24 | Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling | Albert Satorra & Joan Carles Bou |
| SC05 | Fri. 24 | Designing Effective Web Surveys | Mick Couper |
| SC06 | Fri. 24 | Modern Time Series Methodology for Modeling, Surveillance and Forecasting of Environ-mentally-driven Infections | Elena Naumova |
| SC07 | Fri. 24 & Sat. 25 | Small-area estimation methods with applications | Partha Lahiri |
| SC08 | Fri. 24 & Sat. 25 | Editing and Imputation of Survey Data | Wesley Young & David Haziza |
| SC10 | Fri. 24 | Data Anonymization: Balancing Data Confidentiality and Data Quality | Lawrence Cox |
| SC11 | Sat. 25 | Total Survey Error: Concepts and Practice | Paul Biemer |
| SC12 | Sat. 25 | Parallel Programming with Big Data in R | George Ostrouchov |
| SC13 |
Sat. 25 | Modern Bayesian Econometrics | Hedibert Lopes |
| SC14 | Sat. 25 | New advances in the modeling of count data | Joseph Hilbe |
| SC15 | Sat. 25 | Data Mining, Machine Learning, and Business Analytics | David Banks |
