Standardization and Decomposition: An Introduction for Social Scientists

Workshop 15 July 2026

Overview

contacts

• Josiah: josiah.king@ed.ac.uk
  
• Ben: ben.matthews@stir.ac.uk

When

Wednesday 15th July 2026

Where

• In-person: University of Stirling, Cottrell Building, 2Y5. Click here for the map!
  
• Online: The session will be recorded and transcribed via Teams. If you are joining online please use the [link removed].

What to prepare?

Please bring your own laptop with either R or Stata installed. If you cannot install either R or Stata on your own machine you will be able to complete practical exercises in R via a web browser, but for this you will need a free account with posit.cloud. If you would like to use this option please sign up for an account at posit.cloud before the session.

Schedule

Sessions

• Welcome/Intro
  
• Introduction to Standardisation and Decomposition
  
• The whole game
  
• Standardisation & Decomposition of Rates as Products
  
• Practical 1
  
• Cross-classified Data & Multiple Populations
  
• Practical 2
  
• Uncertainty
  
• Practical 3
• Close
  

Breaks

11:00-11:15: Coffee


12:15-13:15: Lunch


14:15-14:30: Coffee