Simulation studies are used to understand the properties of statistical procedures.  This technique is widely used when conducting power analysis for research studies,  which is one focus for this workshop.  Simulation studies can also be used to assess the performance of statistical procedures in non-standard settings, such as when there are concerns about missing data, […]

This workshop will cover introductory GIS concepts, tools, and techniques. We will use QGIS (and ArcGIS) and learn the basics of vector- and network-data GIS by solving problems.  You will also learn to generate maps. We will use the graphical user interface and no programming experience is required for this workshop. The workshop is meant for […]

OVERVIEW This workshop will provide a brief overview of the components of the Great Lakes Cluster. The main body of the workshop will cover the resource manager and scheduler, creating submissions scripts to run jobs and the options available in them, and hands-on experience. By the end of the workshop, every participant should have created […]

This workshop will cover techniques for conducting large-scale inference, using Python and its libraries.  We will cover the principals of how large scale inference is different from classical inference, and why multiple comparisons should usually be accounted for in an analysis.  We will then discuss the Bonferroni method, Benjamini and Hochberg's False Discovery Rate (FDR), […]

This brief workshop will demonstrate the capabilities of two recent R packages, gganimate and patchwork. One package allows the data explorer to provide some lively enhancement to an otherwise static plot, without doing much more than standard plots with ggplot2. Likewise, the other package can seamlessly combine multiple ggplots of varying kinds into one cohesive […]

Topics: By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to: Work with Stata, including using Do-files and using the help system. Get data into Stata and manage your data files Establish familiarity with your data Clean the data to prepare it for analysis Check for basic errors in the data Generate new variables […]

This workshop will cover introductory concepts, tools, and techniques to model spatially referenced data observed over a regular or irregular grid. We will cover models such as spatial autoregressive that emphasizes the idea of spatial correlation via neighborhood. The workshop will focus on conceptual aspects, diagnostics tests, implementation in R, and interpretation of results.