Past Events
Event Date:
Friday, April 13, 2018 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
University of Georgia
Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries, Room 277
Athens, Georgia, 30602
United States
Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries, Room 277
Athens, Georgia, 30602
United States
Objective
The Network of Greater Georgia Institutions for Neuroimaging and Statistics (NOGGINS) workshop provides a forum for scientific communication and collaboration between researchers in the area of neuroscience and neuroimaging.
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Timothy Johnson of the University of... more
Event Date:
Thursday, April 12, 2018 - 9:00am to Friday, April 13, 2018 - 5:00pm, in Toronto, Canada
Event Type:
NISS Hosted
COURSE OUTLINE
R is a flexible, extensible statistical computing environment, but it is limited to single-core execution. Spark is a distributed computing environment which treats R as a first-class programming language. This course introduces data structures in R and their use in functional... more
Event Date:
Thursday, March 29, 2018 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Brooks Hall Athens,
Georgia, 30602
United States
Georgia, 30602
United States
NISS is co-sponsoring The University of Georgia/Clemson University Joint Seminar. Since the 1970's the University of Georgia Department of Statistics and the Clemson University Mathematical Sciences Department have organized the annual UGA/Clemson Joint Seminar which alternates between Athens and... more
Event Date:
Thursday, February 15, 2018 - 8:00am to Saturday, February 17, 2018 - 5:30pm
Event Location:
Marriott Portland Downtown Waterfront
1401 SW Naito Parkway
Portland, Oregon, 97201
United States
1401 SW Naito Parkway
Portland, Oregon, 97201
United States
The 2018 American Statistical Association Conference on Statistical Practice aims to bring together hundreds of statistical practitioners and data scientists—including data analysts, researchers, and scientists—who engage in the application of statistics to solve real-world problems on a daily... more
Event Date:
Tuesday, January 23, 2018 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
Event Type:
NISS Hosted
Objective
Following the very successful first virtual NISS-Merck meet-up on the FDA draft guidance on “Multiple Endpoints in Clinical Trials” on September 12, 2017 (recordings available here), the second NISS-Merck meetup held on January 23, 2018 (Tuesday) between 11:00 and 12:00 noon Eastern... more
Event Date:
Thursday, October 19, 2017 - 7:30am to Saturday, October 21, 2017 - 1:50pm
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Hyatt Regency
La Jolla, California,
United States
La Jolla, California,
United States
Objective
The 2017 Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference in La Jolla, California, aims to bring together hundreds of statistical practitioners and data scientists to “Share WISDOM (Women In Statistics, Data science, and -OMics).” WSDS2017 will highlight the achievements and career... more
Event Date:
Thursday, October 12, 2017 - 7:30am to Saturday, October 14, 2017 - 1:00pm
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
UCLA
Los Angeles, California,
United States
Los Angeles, California,
United States
The purpose of the Design and Analysis of Experiments (DAE) conference series is to provide support and encouragement to junior researchers in the field of design and analysis of experiments, and to stimulate interest in topics of practical relevance to science and industry. The meetings also... more
Event Date:
Saturday, September 30, 2017 - 9:00am to Sunday, October 1, 2017 - 5:00pm
Event Type:
NISS Hosted
Event Location:
Genomics Auditorium
University of California
900 University Avenue
Riverside, California, 92521
United States
University of California
900 University Avenue
Riverside, California, 92521
United States
COURSE OUTLINE
R is flexible, extensible statistical computing environment, but it is limited to single-core execution. Spark is a distributed computing environment which treats R as a first-class programming language. This course introduces data structures in R and their use in functional... more
Event Date:
Monday, September 25, 2017 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible
Event Location:
Bureau Labor Statistics Conference Center
2 Massachusetts Ave NE
Washington, District of Columbia, 20212
United States
2 Massachusetts Ave NE
Washington, District of Columbia, 20212
United States
CLASS CAPACITY: Limited to first 62 registrants
OBJECTIVE
The workshop is modeled on a European Survey Research Association (ESRA) workshop on inference from nonprobability samples. The National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) in association with the Washington Statistical Society... more
Event Date:
Thursday, September 14, 2017 - 9:00am to Friday, September 15, 2017 - 5:00pm
Event Type:
NISS Hosted
Event Location:
American Statistical Association Headquarters
732 North Washington St.
Alexandria, Virginia,
United States
732 North Washington St.
Alexandria, Virginia,
United States
COURSE OUTLINE
R is a flexible, extensible statistical computing environment, but it is limited to single-core execution. Spark is a distributed computing environment which treats R as a first-class programming language. This course introduces data structures in R and their use in functional... more