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    • Introduction to Survey Design: Data Collection, Questionnaire Design and Response Processes-Lecture

    Rackham Building, Earl Lewis Room, 3rd Floor East 915 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    This lecture-format workshop will present an overview of available modes and methods of survey data collection as well as an introduction to the survey response process and implications for questionnaire design.  Participants will gain an appreciation of the tradeoffs inherent in survey design decisions and how design can affect data quality and survey errors. Topics […]

    Tutorial: Learning to use the Community Earth System Model on Flux

    Space Research Building Auditorium, Room 2246 2455 Hayward St., Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    If you are interested in learning how to operate the Community Earth System Model (CESM) global climate modeling system using U-M computing resources, please attend this interactive tutorial.

    Biostatistics Seminar: Kenneth Lange, Professor of Biomathematics, Human Genetics and Statistics, UCLA: “Next Generation Statistical Genetics”

    1690 SPH I 1415 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    This talk will discuss how modern data mining techniques can be imported into statistical genetics. Most relevant models now invoke high-dimensional optimization. Penalization and set projection give sparsity. Separation of variables gives parallelization. Time permitting, these ideas will be illustrated by several examples: estimation of ethnic ancestry, genotype imputation via matrix completion, conversion of imputed genotypes into haplotypes, matrix completion discriminant […]