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Grant Writing Workshop

Dora Costa, Anne Pebley, Andrew Fuligni May 3, 9:00am-1:00pm Workshop materials can be downloaded from http://www.ccpr.ucla.edu/members

Balancing Work and Family

4240 Public Affairs Bldg

Gilbert Gee, Meredith Phillips, Till von Wachter (UCLA) June 7, 12:00-1:00pm 4240 Public Affairs Building

Introduction to Stata

Andrew Hicks (UCLA) October 11, 12:30 PM-2:00 PM Bunche Hall A258

How to be an Effective Researcher

Bunche 9383

Xi Song, Devin Bunten, Malia Jones, Andrew Hicks, Jennie Brand (CCPR) October 22, 2:30 PM-4:00 PM Bunche Hall 9383

Econ Mini-Conf: Perspectives on Health and Aging

4240 Public Affairs Bldg

Robert Willis (University of Michigan), Mark Hayward (UT Austin), and Robert Pollak (University of Washington, St. Louis) March 7, 9:00 AM-3:30 PM 4240 Public Affairs Bldg.

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 Bldg

Susan 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 Bldg

Shelley 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 Bldg

Sharon 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 Bldg

Daniel 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 […]