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Training schedule for Monash South Africa students

All DVDs will be running from 11h00 on the dates indicated.

Dates:  20 April and 21 August

1. Completing Your Thesis on Time (19.07.2005) 70 mins

  1. Supervision
  2. The state-of-the-art
  3. Plan Journal papers
  4. Scientific approach
  5. Exposure to the wider community
  6. Multitasking
  7. Not leaving writing until the last minute
  8. Discuss
  9. Diversions, digressions, tangents
  10.  Not keeping to the research plan
  11. Be methodical
  12. Different cultural philosophies
  13. Start small and work up
  14. Bibliography databases
  15. Doing experiments/taking data
  16. Problems with tools
  17. Polishing
  18. Statistical analysis
  19. Examiners

Date: 8 May and 28 August

2. The Conference Experience (Professor Graeme Shanks, Dr Antonio Patti) 1hr 16 mins

  1. Selecting the conference
  2. Preparing the submission
  3. Dealing with feedback
  4. Before the conference
  5. At the  conference
  6. After the conference

Dates: 15 May and 4 September

3. Confirmation of Candidature 98 mins

  1. Introduction/ substance behind the process
  2. Lead up to confirmation
  3. The panel
  4. The confirmation seminar
  5. What does the panel look for?
  6. Typical outcomes
  7. Tips from the experienced students

Dates: 22 May and 11 September

4. Time series (Ashton de Silva) 96 mins

  1. Statistical consulting service
  2. Statistical workshops for research students
  3. Expert stats
  4. References
  5. Time series data
  6. Time series graphs
  7. Time plots
  8. Components of a time series
  9. Trend
  10. Cycle
  11. Seasonality
  12. Irregular
  13. Autocorrelation 
  14. Lagged scatter plots
  15. Raw data
  16. Transformation to stabilize the variance
  17. Calendar adjustments
  18. Explainable variation
  19. Smoothing a time series
  20. Spectral analysis
  21. Autoregressive models
  22. Forecasting
  23. Some forecast methods
  24. Regression models with AR errors
  25. Trading day variation
  26. Variable holiday effects
  27. Interventions

Dates: 29 May and 18 September

5. Building a thesis

  1. Chapter 1 Introduction/ Literature review
  2. Chapter 2 Materials and Methods
  3. Chapters 3,4,5 etc. ( results)
  4. What goes on in each chapter
    1. General discussion / Perspectives
    2. Appendices
  5. A new type of thesis format:
  6. A collection of published papers

Dates: 7 August and 25 September

6. Multivariate Techniques: Dr Neil Diamond 100 mins

  1. Introduction
  2. Software
  3. techniques
  4. Data
  5. Classification of techniques
  6.  Structured  approach-application
  7. general guidelines
  8. key assumption
  9. Preliminary  data analysis2
  10. Graphical Analysis1
  11. Outliers
  12. Missing data1
  13. Missing data 2

Dates: 14 August

7.   Handbook for Doctoral and MPHIL Degrees

  1. Introduction
  2. Admission to doctoral and MPhil candidature
  3. Conditions of candidature
  4. Changes to candidature
  5. Supervision
  6. Intellectual property
  7. Thesis and examination matters
  8. Grievance and appeal, discipline and termination
  9. Fees, scholarships and grants
  10. Facilities and services
  11. Directory

PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL THE DVDs ARE ALSO AVAILABLE ON REQUEST AT THE OFFICE OF MS H STOLS, FIRST FLOOR SEMINAR BUILDING, RESEARCH OFFICE.
THESE DVDs ARE ONLY TO BE VIEWED IN THE RESEARCH TRAINING ROOM, FIRST FLOOR SEMINAR BUILDING.