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Instructors: Hanna Brenzel, Hariolf Merkle, Marco Puts, and Piet Daas

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# Introduction {.unnumbered}

Welcome to the course "Microsimulation & Machine Learning with Official Statistics Data"! Here you can find the material for the [BERD Academy flipped classroom course](https://www.berd-nfdi.de/berd-academy/how-to-make-use-of-machine-learning-microsimulation-in-official-statistics/).

BERD Academy is part of BERD\@NFDI; funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) -- 460037581

## Course format

This is an online course. **Each week** you will...

📺 watch the **weekly videos** (\~60 min),

📖 review the assigned **readings**,

❓ work on the (R) **assignments**,

👩‍🏫 discuss the material in the **weekly online meeting** with the instructors from destatis and Statistics Netherlands, and fellow course participants (\~60 min).

The videos and literature of the corresponding unit will be unlocked at least one week before the weekly meeting.

Basic R knowledge is required.

## Online Meetings

-   Thursday, November 02, 2023, 05:00 PM -- 06:00 PM CET

-   Thursday, November 09, 2023, 05:00 PM -- 06:00 PM CET

-   Thursday, November 16, 2023: NO MEETING

-   Thursday, November 23, 2023, 05:00 PM -- 06:00 PM CET

-   Thursday, November 30, 2023, 05:00 PM -- 06:00 PM CET