Past Events
Event Date:
Friday, April 29, 2022
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Department of Statistics, University of Georgia
Botanical Garden | Garden Club Terrace Room
310 Herty Dr.
Athens, Georgia, 30602
United States
Botanical Garden | Garden Club Terrace Room
310 Herty Dr.
Athens, Georgia, 30602
United States
In order to recognize the professional accomplishments of late Professor Ralph Bradley, Department of Statistics has been organizing an annual “Bradley Lecture” since 1993. The first Bradley Lecture held in 1993 featured Professors C. R. Rao and Ralph Bradley as speakers. Since then, each year we... more
Event Date:
Registration due March 30, 2022 & Entries due April 19, 2022 by Noon ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
Visualization Competition for Undergraduate and Graduate Students
Do you love to make insightful discoveries in education data and cutting-edge visualizations to display them? Then NISS has a NEW competition for you!
Great examples of data visualization and interactive graphics are popping up... more
Event Date:
April 12, 2022, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM ET
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Sponsored
Conference Theme
Subgroup Analysis in Clinical Trials: Opportunities and Challenges
Fees
• PENN faculty and students: $0
• Academic, Government, Non-Profit: $60
• Industry: $85
• Non-PENN students: $25
REGISTER HERE!
Co-Sponsors
American Statistical Association
Society for... more
Event Date:
Friday, March 25, 2022 - 1 pm - 2 pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
Overview
R has risen to become the _lingua franca_ of statistical research and applications. At the same time, user demands on computing resources and performance have also increased. This is driven chiefly by the ever-growing size of datasets, and may sometimes be coupled with increases in their... more
Event Date:
Wednesday, March 23, 2022 - 12 noon - 1:30 pm ET
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Hosted
[Please Note: This Ingram Olkin Forum session has already occurred. Go to the News Story for this event to read about what happened.]
Interested in a statistics or data science position in the insurance or finance industry sector? Then this session should interest you!
NISS hosts Career Fair... more
Event Date:
Tuesday, March 15, 2022 - 11 am - 12:30 pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
[Please Note: This session has already occurred. Go to the News Story to read about what happened.]
The National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) and Merck are sponsoring a Virtual Meet-Up on the use of Statistical and Deep Learning Methods for Biomedical Images.
Overview
Imaging plays... more
Event Date:
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm EST
Working with Non-Probability Samples:
Assessing and Remediating Bias
Panel Discussion & Q&A
Courtney Kennedy
Director of Survey Research, Pew Research Center
"Exploring the Assumption That Online Opt-in Respondents Are Answering in Good Faith"
Yan Li
Professor, Joint... more
Event Date:
Friday, February 25, 2022 - 12 pm to 1:30 pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
[Please Note: This session has already occurred. Go to the News Story to read about what happened.]
Offering good mentorship is often an important hallmark of a successful career, be it in academia, industry or government. Yet mentoring can be a rather challenging task, especially when you are... more
Event Date:
Wednesday, February 9, 2022 - 12 noon - 1:30 pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
[Please Note: This session has already occurred. Go to the News Story to read about what happened.]
Government institutions have a unique mission when it comes to the data they collect as well as the importance of the research they engage in. This research becomes the principle foundation for ... more
Event Date:
Thursday, January 27, 2022 - 2 pm
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
Come and learn about postdoctoral positions in statistics, and reasons you might consider a postdoctoral position after graduation, from our panel of current and former postdoctoral fellows!
Panelists:
Dr. Whitney Huang, Assistant Professor, Clemson University Department of Mathematics and... more