NBER Cohort Studies Meeting
4240 Public Affairs BldgApril 4, 9:00 AM-5:30 PM 4240 Public Affairs Bldg.
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Learn About New Datasets in Health and Aging
4240 Public Affairs BldgSharon Stein Merkin, Mei-Hua Huang April 11, 12:00 PM-1:30 PM 4240 Public Affairs Bldg.
Publishing in a Social Science Journal: Advice for Graduate Students and Early Career Scholars
4240 Public Affairs BldgMerril Silverstein, Syracuse University, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences April 18, 12:00 PM-1:30 PM 4240 Public Affairs Bldg.
Research Using Restricted Data: Ethics and Access Issues
4240 Public Affairs BldgGary Gates (UCLA), Elizabeth Stephenson May 19, 12:00 PM-1:30 PM 4240 Public Affairs Bldg.
Agent-Based Modeling Using AnyLogic Workshop
Prof. Nathan Osgood, University of Saskatchewan July 28–August 1, 2014 University of California, Los Angeles
Introduction to Stata
Andrew Hicks (UCLA) October 3, 12:00-1:30pm Bunche Hall A258
Leaping the Hurdles and Navigating the Maze: Getting NIH Funding
4240 Public Affairs BldgSusan Newcomer, PhD NIH Extramural Program Staff October 23, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM 4240 Public Affairs Building Co-sponsored with The Williams Institute This is an introduction to the culture of the US National Institutes of Health. I will talk about how the NIH functions, describe the process of an award from application to review […]
How to Effectively Talk About Your Research with Diverse Audiences
4240 Public Affairs BldgShelley Wiseman and Prof. Jennie Brand December 10, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM 4240 Public Affairs Building When you are asked to talk about your research, many of the challenges are the same no matter who your audience and what your communications medium (PowerPoint or not). How to get and keep the audience on board. […]
Identifying and Accessing Datasets for Studies on Health and Aging
4240 Public Affairs BldgSharon Stein Merkin and Mei-Hua Huang March 13, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM 4240 Public Affairs Building This presentation outlines the general approach to identifying and accessing datasets for secondary data analyses related to health and aging. Within this framework, we will outline the services provided by the UCLA Older American Independence Center’s Data Access […]
Longitudinal Data Analysis
Michael Tzen May 21, 2015 2:00pm-5:00pm 2400 Public Affairs Building An increasing number of longitudinal datasets are being made available. The longitudinal nature of the dataset may be represented as a hierarchy of stages, say, measurements across time nested within an individual. We’ll discuss how hierarchical models account for the nested structures and how Generalized […]
Bayesian Statistical Modeling Using Stan
4240 Public Affairs BldgDaniel Lee June 23, 2015 10:00 AM-12:00 PM 4240 Public Affairs Building Stan is an open-source, Bayesian inference tool with interfaces in R, Python, Matlab, Julia, Stata, and the command line. Users write statistical models in a high-level statistical language. The default Bayesian inference algorithm is the no-U-turn sampler (NUTS), an auto-tuned version of Hamiltonian […]
All California Labor Economics Conference 2015
UCLA Carnesale CommonsThe All-California Labor Economics Conference (ACLEC) brings together the top labor economists in California annually to present recent research. This year’s conference will be hosted by UCLA on Thursday, September 17 and Friday, September 18. Leah Boustan (Economics) and Sarah Reber (Public Policy) are co-organizing. The local planning committee consists of Leah Boustan, Sarah Reber, […]
So you want to be a researcher? Principles and practical data tools to help you fly transparently
SSC Computing Lab 2400 Public Affairs Building, Los Angeles, United StatesResearchers go through fundamental steps in a data analysis project. This workshop highlights key steps in a data analyst's workflow and encourages transparency in each of the steps. Throughout this workshop, we go through hands on exercises that integrate: a transparency engine, obtaining federal API data, producing useful intermediate data structures, and sharing analysis results. […]
Reproducibility of Statistical Results
CCPR Seminar Room 4240 Public Affairs Building, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesPresented By: Mark S. Handcock (Professor, Statistics) Jeffrey B. Lewis (Professor, Political Science) Marc A. Suchard (Professor, Biomathematics, Biostatistics and Human Genetics) Reproducibility is one of the main principles of the scientific method. This panel of scholars will discuss issues in the importance of replication of statistical results. Increasing attention is being paid to […]
NBER Cohort Studies Data Users Conference
CCPR Seminar Room 4240 Public Affairs Building, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesCCPR is hosting the annual NBER Cohort Studies meeting which brings together researchers from different fields interested in aging related issues or in methodologies applicable to aging and has set the seeds for synergistic relationships between economists, sociologists, demographers, psychologists, epidemiologists, and MDs. The meeting is funded in part by an NIH conference grant through […]
China Multigenerational Panel Datasets Workshop
CCPR Seminar Room 4240 Public Affairs Building, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesCo-sponsored with Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), the workshop will feature the China Multigenerational Panel Dataset-Shuangcheng (CMGPD-SC), the release of which is nearing completing, as well as the previously released China Multigenerational Panel Dataset-Liaoning (CMGPD-LN).
Completing an IRB application: Common mistakes and solutions.
CCPR Seminar Room 4240 Public Affairs Building, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesTodd Franke
Professor and Chair
Department of Social Welfare
UCLA - Luskin School of Public Affairs
About: This presentation will briefly go through the initial application process, amendments and continuing reviews with a focus on working with the IRB and the understandable but common mistakes in completing the various applications. It will include information on the process of obtaining and renewing CITI training for both PI’s and Faculty Sponsors.
Practical GIS for Demography
CCPR Seminar Room 4240 Public Affairs Building, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesContent: Geographically referenced data sets are becoming increasingly common.
In spatial analysis of demographic data, three common spatial indices are used: points, lines, and polygons. Through interspersed hands on exercises, we will: obtain, shape, and visualize demographic data over space. We will briefly discuss the motivation for incorporating geographic association into downstream models.
Below is an example of what we will produce with
1) Obtain GPS locations of In-N-Out's obtained from the Google Radar API
2) Compute their generated Voronoi Tesselation to address spatial competition
3) Aggregate Census 2010 tract-level population counts into these competing geographies
No background knowledge of will be required. The exercises are introductory. We will also highlight alternative software tools to achieve similar goals, such as GrassGIS and Stata
NBER Cohort Studies Meeting
CCPR Seminar Room 4240 Public Affairs Building, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesCCPR is hosting the annual NBER Cohort Studies meeting which brings together researchers from different fields interested in aging related issues or in methodologies applicable to aging and has set the seeds for synergistic relationships between economists, sociologists, demographers, psychologists, epidemiologists, and MDs. The meeting is funded in part by an NIH conference grant through NBER.
Preparing for the Job Market
CCPR Seminar Room 4240 Public Affairs Building, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesAbout: Panel of speakers will focus on key points and tips for graduate students preparing for the job market both in academia and the private sector.
Devin Bunten (Ph. D candidate, Economics)
Prof. Siwei Cheng (Assistant Professor, UCLA Sociology)
Mieke Eeckhaut (CCPR Postdoc)
Rosanna Smart (Ph. D candidate, Economics)