News on the Applied Statistics Lab (ASL)

 A “lean” version of the ASL is up and running!  There are three faculty directors of the ASL: Arne Bathke (Director, email: arne@uky.edu), Connie Wood (Assoc. Dir. with focus on Statistics in Agricultural Research, email: cwood@email.uky.edu), and Heather Bush (Assoc. Director with focus on Statistics in Medical Research, email: heather.bush@uky.edu).  You can contact them directly (e.g., via email) to describe the statistical question or problem.  For standard questions, the problem will be referred by one of the directors to one of the (currently) four ASL graduate student research assistants under the supervision of the respective faculty director. For complex analyses the faculty directors will take a more active role directly in the analysis and, as appropriate, enlist other faculty members in the Department of Statistics and Biostatistics. In this latter approach, the hope is that the question is sufficiently novel to develop into a collaborative grant application and a sustained research collaboration. One of the consultants, Xiaofei Wang, a PhD student in Economics, will cover consulting on Stata issues. 
 

Workshop Updates!

Dec. 2nd & 3rd: Research Talk, James Gimpel, Political Scientist, University of Maryland.

○ Dec. 2, Thursday: GIS workshop from 3-4:30 (1645 POT): "New Directions in the Study of Political Geography" Demonstration of GIS software (ArcGIS, GeoDa) for a general audience.

○ Dec. 3, Friday: Research Talk from 2-4 (18th Floor POT, West End Room): "Voter Migration and the Geographic Sorting of the American Electorate"

February 18, Grant Workshop, UK Panel of Grant Experts, NSF, NIH, Other. 2-4 pm, Young Auditorium

○ Reception afterward at the Faculty Club, 4:30.

○ Panel: Tom Janoski (Sociology), Genia Toma (Martin School), Jim Ziliak (Economics), Thomas Kelly (Behavioral Science), Lawrence Gottlob (Psychology, at NSF), Janice Almasi (Education Curriculum and Instruction) Anna Secor (Geography).  Panel members have served recently on reviewer panels for various funding agencies (e.g., NSF, NIH), and will give faculty and grad students advice on what elements of grant proposals add to, or subtract from a successful review of an external grant proposal.  

November 30th (Tuesday), 4-5 pm, CB 110, Andrew Gelman (Statistics, Columbia U), “Information Visualization vs. Statistical Graphics,” Skype broadcast.

Andrew Gelman, known worldwide for his work on statistical methods with social science applications will be presenting this seminar via Skype from his office at Columbia. Andrew’s lecture should be of interest to social scientists, computer scientists, and many others. Please forward this message to anyone you think might be interested. For those of you who follow Gelman’s Blog, this should be extremely useful!  Thanks to the Statistics Dept. for arranging this!