Audience: Researchers who are use or are interested in using matching. Taught in R (familiarity is assumed) but concepts transfer to other software. An introduction to matching, such as propensity score matching, using R's "optmatch" package. We will discuss the theory behind matching and propensity scores, followed by examples using R to perform the matching […]

This three-part workshop will give an overview of the Julia language for conducting data analyses and managing data. The workshop assumes no prior experience with Julia, but participants should have prior programming experience with a language such as Python, R, or Matlab. The format of the workshop is lecture/discussion but participants may bring a laptop […]

This three-part workshop will give an overview of the Julia language for conducting data analyses and managing data. The workshop assumes no prior experience with Julia, but participants should have prior programming experience with a language such as Python, R, or Matlab. The format of the workshop is lecture/discussion but participants may bring a laptop […]

This three-part workshop will give an overview of the Julia language for conducting data analyses and managing data. The workshop assumes no prior experience with Julia, but participants should have prior programming experience with a language such as Python, R, or Matlab. The format of the workshop is lecture/discussion but participants may bring a laptop […]

This workshop is a continuation of the previous workshop “Building software projects: use CMake to build the building plan”.  In this workshop, we will see that CMake is not just a fancy Makefile generator: it can help us to test, reuse, and distribute our software!  We will use CMake to build two interdependent multi-language projects, […]

This is a two-session workshop on the use of Go for data processing.  Go is an open source language developed for general-purpose programming.  It is not more difficult to learn and use than a high-level scripting language like Python, but it is strongly typed, statically compiled, and provides native support for concurrency, leading to much […]

This is a two-session workshop on the use of Go for data processing.  Go is an open source language developed for general-purpose programming.  It is not more difficult to learn and use than a high-level scripting language like Python, but it is strongly typed, statically compiled, and provides native support for concurrency, leading to much […]

Survival analysis is used when working with data that may be censored, as often is the case in studies of human subjects with incomplete follow-up.  The presence of censoring makes most forms of regression and other standard statistical analyses inappropriate. A body of specialized techniques for analyzing this type of data has been developed, including […]