Past Events

  • Betsy Sinclair, Washington University in St Louis

    The Center for Social Statistics Presents: Electronic Homestyle: Tweeting Ideology Abstract: Ideal points are central to the study of political partisanship and an essential component to our understanding of legislative and […]

  • Reproducibility of Statistical Results

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

    The Center for Social Statistics Presents: Mark S. Handcock (Professor, Statistics) Jeffrey B. Lewis (Professor, Political Science) Marc A. Suchard (Professor, Biomathematics, Biostatistics and Human Genetics) Abstract: Reproducibility is one […]

  • Aude Hofleitner, Facebook

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    The Center for Social Statistics Presents: Inferring and understanding travel and migration movements at a global scale Abstract: Despite extensive work on the dynamics and outcomes of large-scale migrations, timely […]

  • Bayesian Statistical Modeling Using Stan

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

    The Center for Social Statistics Presents: Instructor: Daniel Lee, Columbia University Abstract: Stan is an open-source, Bayesian inference tool with interfaces in R, Python, Matlab, Julia, Stata, and the command […]