Past Events
Event Date:
July 28 & 30, 2019
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Denver Convention Center
Denver, Colorado,
United States
Denver, Colorado,
United States
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Course Objective
The goal of the workshop is to provide instruction for writing journal articles and grant proposals. Participants will be required to provide a recent sample of their writing, which will be reviewed by a senior mentor. The sample could be a current... more
Event Date:
June 26 and 27, 2019
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Registration by invitation - please fill out the pre-event registration form
Alexandria, Virginia,
United States
Alexandria, Virginia,
United States
THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCES
ANNOUNCES
THE INAUGURAL INGRAM OLKIN
STATISTICS SERVING SOCIETY (S3) FORUM
Gun Violence — The Statistical Issues
In honor of Ingram Olkin (1924-2016), a principal founder of NISS and an internationally prominent statistician whose work stressed the... more
Event Date:
May 23, 2019 12-2:00 pm ET [9-11 am PT]
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
PLEASE NOTE: Thank you for your interest in this session! Due to the popularity of the topic for this webinar the number of registrations has exceeded the capacity of our Zoom Meeting space! Not to worry, we have arranged for the event to be live-streamed through our YouTube channel. ... more
Event Date:
Tuesday, April 23rd from 1 - 2 pm (ET)
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Virtual Meet-up
1:00 - 2:00 pm, Eastern Daylight Time
United States
1:00 - 2:00 pm, Eastern Daylight Time
United States
The first Academic Meet-up organized by NISS focused on getting that first job as a statistician, the second meet-up focused on improving statistical communication skills. Both are very important aspects of growing your experience and potential as an statistician. But what happens now that you have... more
Event Date:
April 1, 2019 - 11:00 am - 12:30 pm, Eastern Daylight Time
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
The National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) and Merck are sponsoring a second virtual meet-up on the topic of real world data (RWD). This second meet-up, a sequel to the first one held on October 4, 2018 (1st NISS-Merck meet-up on RWD), will focus on examples of using RWD.
RWD has... more
Event Date:
March 11, 2019 1:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Hosted
Event Location:
Bureau Labor Statistics Conference Center Rooms 9 & 10
2 Massachusetts Ave NE
Please use 1st Street entrance!
Washington, District of Columbia, 20212
United States
2 Massachusetts Ave NE
Please use 1st Street entrance!
Washington, District of Columbia, 20212
United States
REGISTRATION IS CLOSED
The National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) has invited Yan Li of the University of Maryland at College Park to organize a half-day workshop on "Using Surveys to Improve the Representativeness of Nonprobability Samples in Epidemiologic Studies."
The workshop is an... more
Event Date:
Monday, Feb 25, 2019 - 9:00 am to Tuesday, Feb 26, 2019 - 5:00 pm
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Hosted
Event Location:
Bureau of Labor Statistics Conference and Training Center
Conference Rooms 7-8
Postal Square Building, 1st Street, NE
Washington, District of Columbia,
United States
Conference Rooms 7-8
Postal Square Building, 1st Street, NE
Washington, District of Columbia,
United States
COURSE IS NOW CLOSED TO REGISTRATIONS
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... more
Event Date:
Tuesday, January 29, 2019 12 pm – 1 pm (ET)
Event Type:
NISS Hosted
Event Location:
Virtual Meet-up
12:00 noon -1:00 pm, Eastern Daylight Time
United States
12:00 noon -1:00 pm, Eastern Daylight Time
United States
Everyone has questions about how to best communicate their knowledge. How can statisticians share their expertise clearly and effectively in presentations and in their writing?
Is it the message that makes a presentation great? Is it the delivery? Or, is it the strong conviction projected by the... more
Event Date:
January 22, 2019 from 11AM – 12:15PM ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted
Immuno-oncology is the study and development of treatments that take advantage of the body’s immune system to fight cancer. Promising clinical results from this approach in multiple indications have energized research in this area and led to regulatory approvals of multiple immune-therapies. The... more
Event Date:
Wednesday, October 10, 2018 from 12 – 1pm (EDT)
Event Type:
NISS Hosted
Anxious about landing that first job after graduation? Here is a easy way. Join a conversation that will help walk through the ins and outs of the job hunting experience.
Target Audience: Graduate Students
This video conference involved individuals who have either been regularly involved in... more