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 […]

James Robins, Harvard University

Room 33-105 CHS Building 650 Charles E Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA, United States

The UCLA Departments of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Statistics and the Center for Social Statistics presents: Causal Methods in Epidemiology: Where has it got us and what can we expect in the […]

Shahryar Minhas, Duke University

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

The Center for Social Statistics Presents: Predicting the Evolution of Intrastate Conflict: Evidence from Nigeria The endogenous nature of civil conflict has limited scholars' abilities to draw clear inferences about […]

West Coast Experiments Conference, UCLA 2017

UCLA Los Angeles, CA, United States

The Center for Social Statistics Presents: West Coast Experiments Conference, UCLA 2017 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/west-coast-experiments-2017-ucla-tickets-32968584925 The tenth annual West Coast Experiments Conference will be held at UCLA on Monday, April 24 and […]