Tena Katsaounis, SPES Education Chair
The Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences will sponsor a one-day short course, Short Course on Logistic Regression Analysis, given by Richard Lynch at the Fall Technical Conference, which will take place October 7–8.
The course will cover binary, nominal, and ordinal logistic regression. Students will learn to identify the context in which logistic regression applies and fit logistic regression models using Minitab. They will learn to evaluate goodness of fit and interpret the models. Data formatting requirements will be explained, and the role of link functions will be shown. Also covered will be input variables that are continuous and categorical, and students will practice effective methods of reporting the findings from their modeling effort. Each student should bring a laptop. A 30-day trial of Minitab version 15 will be made available to those students who do not already have Minitab installed.
Lynch is a private practice statistical consultant who has 12 years of experience training more than 70 waves of Six Sigma green belts, black belts, and master black belts. Before that, he served for 13 years as a process improvement engineer at Harris Semiconductor. While at the University of Florida, Lynch studied under William Mendenhall, John Cornell, Ron Randles, and Alan Agresti. His dissertation was directed by Ramon Littell.
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