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Nathaniel Osgood, University of Saskatchewan

4240 Public Affairs Building 4240 Public Affairs Building, Los Angeles

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 conferred great advances in the duration and quality of life. Public health interventions – from improved sanitation efforts, to vaccination campaigns, to contact tracing and […]

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 will be used throughout tidyverse. In this talk, I'll introduce you to the problem that tidy eval solves, illustrated with examples of the various approaches […]

Sander Greenland, UCLA Department of Epidemiology

1434A Physics and Astronomy 1434A Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles

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 his perspective on the paper, “Redefine Statistical Significance”, which was the topic of the previous week’s seminar. Also he will discuss the challenges of avoiding […]