Introduction to generalized linear models in R workshop

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Join our workshop on Introduction to generalized linear models in R, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! 

Here’s some more info: 

Title:  Introduction to generalized linear models in R

Date: Thursday, December 5th, 18:00 – 20:00 CET (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone)

Speaker: Bodo Winter is Professor of Linguistics at the Dept. of Linguistics and Communication, University of Birmingham, and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow for the project “Making numbers meaningful”. He uses data science-driven methods to study gesture, iconicity, and numerical communication in language. Bodo has authored Statistics for Linguists: An Introduction Using R and co-founded the Birmingham Statistics for Linguists Summer School.

Description: In this talk, you’ll learn about the fundamentals of generalized linear models, a powerful extension of the general linear model/multiple regression. We will discuss different distributions that can be used to model a diverse range of data-generating processes and how to interpret models that use different link functions. In the hands-on part of the workshop, we’ll work through a dataset for which we are going to use a mixed Poisson regression model, implemented with the package brms. Materials for the hands-on session will be distributed a couple days prior to the workshop.

Minimal registration fee: 20 euro (or 20 USD or 800 UAH)


Please note that the registration confirmation email will be sent 1 day before the workshop.


How can I register?



  • Save your donation receipt (after the donation is processed, there is an option to enter your email address on the website to which the donation receipt is sent)

  • Fill in the registration form, attaching a screenshot of a donation receipt (please attach the screenshot of the donation receipt that was emailed to you rather than the page you see after donation).

If you are not personally interested in attending, you can also contribute by sponsoring a participation of a student, who will then be able to participate for free. If you choose to sponsor a student, all proceeds will also go directly to organisations working in Ukraine. You can either sponsor a particular student or you can leave it up to us so that we can allocate the sponsored place to students who have signed up for the waiting list.


How can I sponsor a student?


  • Save your donation receipt (after the donation is processed, there is an option to enter your email address on the website to which the donation receipt is sent)

  • Fill in the sponsorship form, attaching the screenshot of the donation receipt (please attach the screenshot of the donation receipt that was emailed to you rather than the page you see after the donation). You can indicate whether you want to sponsor a particular student or we can allocate this spot ourselves to the students from the waiting list. You can also indicate whether you prefer us to prioritize students from developing countries when assigning place(s) that you sponsored.


If you are a university student and cannot afford the registration fee, you can also sign up for the waiting list here. (Note that you are not guaranteed to participate by signing up for the waiting list).



You can also find more information about this workshop series,  a schedule of our future workshops as well as a list of our past workshops which you can get the recordings & materials here.


Looking forward to seeing you during the workshop!






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Dariia Mykhailyshyna

PhD Student in Economics at the University of Bologna

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