Why this course?

Description

🔹 PART 1: Free Listing & Pile Sorting

Date: 28th November 2025 (Friday)
Time: 1:30 PM – 4:30 PM IST
Software: ANTHROPAC

🔍 What this workshop is about:
This hands-on session will introduce qualitative cognitive mapping techniques — Free Listing and Pile Sorting — used to explore how individuals or communities organize ideas, symptoms, or concepts.
We'll discuss Smith’s salience index, proximity matrices, and how to interpret pile sort data.

Example use-cases:
• Understanding how health workers categorize illnesses
• Exploring community perceptions of symptoms or diseases
• Mapping expert groupings of public health priorities

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🔹 PART 2: Cluster Analysis Using JAMOVI

Date: 26th December 2025 (Friday)
Time: 1:30 PM – 4:30 PM IST
Software: JAMOVI

📊 What this workshop is about:
This session will take a practical approach to cluster analysis for both categorical and continuous data.
Participants will learn how to identify natural groupings in data using hierarchical and K-means clustering, and interpret dendrograms and distance matrices.

Example use-cases:
• Clustering patients based on biochemical markers
• Grouping responses from a survey or diagnostic tool
• Cluster profiling in public health research

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👥 Who Can Join?

Health researchers, public health professionals

Faculty and students in social sciences, medical education, or psychology

Anyone exploring qualitative & quantitative analysis in applied research

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🎁 What You’ll Receive

✅ Full access to slides, datasets, and reading material
✅ Hands-on practice using demo datasets
✅ Workshop recording after the session
✅ Certificate upon submission of a short post-workshop quiz
✅ Content available via your MERIT India account — no time limit