Workshop: Bayesian Concepts for Data Analysis

4240 Public Affairs Building 4240 Public Affairs Building, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Instructor: Michael Tzen Content: This 1 hour workshop will provide a sampling of introductory concepts for bayesian analysis. We will use Bayes Rule (and its implications) to think about data […]

Jake Bowers, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Franz Hall 2258A Franz Hall 2258A

The UCLA Department of Statistics and the Center for Social Statistics presents: Rules of Engagement in Evidence-Informed Policy: Practices and Norms of Statistical Science in Government Collaboration between statistical scientists […]

Yu Xie, Princeton

4240 Public Affairs Building 4240 Public Affairs Building, Los Angeles, CA, United States

The California Center for Population Research and the Center for Social Statistics Presents: Heterogeneous Causal Effects: A Propensity Score Approach Heterogeneity is ubiquitous in social science.  Individuals differ not only […]

Per Block, ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich)

Franz Hall 2258A Franz Hall 2258A

The UCLA Department of Statistics and the Center for Social Statistics presents: Modelling Mobility Tables as Weighted Networks Contemporary research on occupational mobility, i.e. how people move between jobs, tends […]

Rob Warren, University of Minnesota

4240 Public Affairs Building 4240 Public Affairs Building, Los Angeles, CA, United States

The California Center for Population Research and the Center for Social Statistics presents: When Should Researchers Use Inferential Statistics When Analyzing Data on Full Populations? Many researchers uncritically use inferential […]

Nathaniel Osgood, University of Saskatchewan

4240 Public Affairs Building 4240 Public Affairs Building, Los Angeles, CA, United States

The UCLA Department of Community Health Sciences and the Center for Social Statistics presents: Dynamic Modeling for Health in the Age of Big Data Traditional approaches to public health concerns have […]

Hadley Wickham, RStudio

1200 Rolfe Hall 1200 Rolfe Hall

The UCLA Department of Statistics and the Center for Social Statistics presents: Programming data science with R & the tidyverse Tidy evaluation is a new framework for non-standard evaluation that […]

Sander Greenland, UCLA Department of Epidemiology

1434A Physics and Astronomy 1434A Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, United States

The UCLA Department of Statistics and the Center for Social Statistics presents: Statistical Significance and Discussion of the Challenges of Avoiding the Abuse of Statistical Methodology Sander Greenland will offer […]

Daniel Benjamin, USC Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research

1434A Physics and Astronomy 1434A Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, United States

The UCLA Department of Statistics and the Center for Social Statistics presents: Redefine Statistical Significance Daniel Benjamin will discuss his paper (written by him and 71 other authors), “Redefine Statistical […]