CAMBRIDGE, MA — Gary King, distinguished Professor of Government and Director of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University, will present his popular daytime advanced quantitative research methodology course to students around the world via the Harvard Extension School's distance education program. Until this year, the course had only been available to matriculating students at Harvard; it is now available online to anyone wishing to learn from Professor King how new approaches to research methods, data analysis, and statistical theory are developed. This course introduces the theories of inference underlying most statistical methods. Online registration begins December 4; classes begin February 6, 2007. Visit www.extension.harvard.edu/DistanceEd for more information.

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