 Are you one of these students who doesn't take things for granted but ask questions such as how useful Crombach's Alpha truly is? Classesma, psychometrician in our department, has done research on that and most scholars would be surprised with his findings. Classesma is also the former head of our department and currently the dean of our school. He is also the founding father of the research master programme that you are looking at. Professor Jürgen Vermund is internationally known as the expert in latent class analysis. He is really keen on getting you convinced about the quality of the method and he undoubtedly will do that. By the way, my name is Guy Mors, I'm the minor coordinator of the methodology and statistics track and my field of expertise is survey research. Students in the research master all have keen interest in doing research but a small group who is interested in doing research on methods and statistics has been focusing on a number of issues. You might wonder which topics that they deal with. I'll present you two of them. First of all, we all know that developing scale involves making compromises between on the one hand practical considerations that a scale should not be too lengthy but on the other hand methodological requirements saying that a scale should be lengthy enough to be able to have reliable data. Well, the question how short a test when a short test becomes too short is a topic researched by one of our research students and who is finishing his PhD on that. The second example. Multilevel data involve data at different levels in which individuals for instance are nested in schools or citizens within countries and multilevel methods have been developed to analyze how these group variables explain differences between individuals. But what if it's the other way around? That you like to explain group differences with the visual level data. It's not that obvious. Well, one of the research master students has developed his research on that. We have the one minus beta. That's the real logo of our department. But you have the power as well. You have the power by joining our team and then you'll experience the luxury of individual traineeships, traineeships which often involves cooperating with staff members in trying to publish papers and getting them published in high quality journals. It's moving into PhD tracks. First year papers, master thesis have been published in our department. So if you're join our team, you're in the real business of doing research, not just practicing. And that is what really makes the difference. And finally, some things that our foreign students told me to tell to you is that, well, how nice is that everybody talks English in the Netherlands? It's one thing that they learned a lot of things that they never heard of before when they entered the program, but best of all that they were given the opportunity to enter a PhD track and they are getting paid for that. So if you have interest in medicine statistics, you have good grades in related courses and you're into the challenge of our research master program, you're welcome. Just give us a mail. Thanks.