Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. A Practical Guide To Survey Weighting (November 12, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68953 68953-17197057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Please join us for the conclusion of the 2019 PDHP workshop series, as Richard Valliant (University of Michigan & University of Maryland Joint Program in Survey Methodology) presents "A Practical Guide To Survey Weighting". This workshop will present a comprehensive guide to the design and creation of survey weights, including sampling weights, nonresponse adjustment, and calibration, as well as approaches for weighting non-probability samples.

Additional topics include:

• Stochastic missingness & nonresponse adjustment.
• Calibration techniques including poststratification, raking, and GREG
• Demonstration and hands-on practice using R and Stata.


BIO:
Richard Valliant is a Research Professor at the University of Michigan and the Joint Program for Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland. He has over 35 years of experience in survey sampling, estimation theory, and statistical computing. He was formerly an Associate Director at Westat and a mathematical statistician with the Bureau of Labor Statistics. He has a range of applied experience in survey estimation and sample design on a variety of establishment and household surveys. He is also a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and has been an editor of Survey Methodology, the Journal of Official Statistics, and both sections of the Journal of the American Statistical Association (Theory & Methods and Applications and Case Studies)

Presented by the Population Dynamics and Health Program (PDHP) at the Michigan Populations Studies Center.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 29 Oct 2019 16:03:45 -0400 2019-11-12T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-12T13:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Poster
ISR CoderSpace with Paul Schulz (November 12, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67427 67427-16849194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Paul Schulz is a senior consulting statistician and data scientist for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in statistical methods and computing, including hypothesis testing, data analysis and modelling, sampling (including weight creation and adjustment), and power calculation), as well as the use of secure computing enclaves (SRCVDI, Likert cluster, and Flux/Great Lakes). Paul writes code in Stata and SAS for general purpose desktop computing, and R and Python for selected applications, such as data visualization and web scraping/automation, among other uses.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:55 -0400 2019-11-12T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-12T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
Issue Attention in Contemporary American Politics: 2016-2020 (November 13, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69106 69106-17244696@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Recent studies of political communication have focused on how and what people learn from information flows in society, whether from news, conversations, web sites, or social media. Researchers from the Center for Political Studies have studied the kinds of information that flow in election campaigns and in response to pressing political issues and what people are paying attention to. The presentations will highlight recent findings.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Nov 2019 15:11:59 -0500 2019-11-13T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-13T13:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Issue Attention in Contemporary American Politics: 2016-2020
Longer lives, Later Births: Implications for Generational Overlap in Denmark (November 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69183 69183-17261059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A Population Studies Center Brown Bag Seminar.

Fertility and mortality trends are the most fundamental determinants of human populations, and Western industrialized countries have witnessed notable changes in these patterns in recent decades: fertility rates have declined, and life expectancy has continued to increase. While demographers and other social scientists have explored the broad implications of population aging, less well understood are the individual-level consequences of conjoint changing fertility and mortality patterns. In particular, there is limited information about the extent to which life courses overlap today versus in prior decades and the implications of such. In this paper, we provide new evidence about generational overlap between grandparents and grandchildren using population register data from Denmark. We describe changing patterns of grandparents being alive-and life expectancy-at grandchildren's birth. Then, we evaluate differences in these patterns by socioeconomic status. These findings have implications for the transmission of inequality, as well as resource demands on governments.



BIO:
Marcia (Marcy) J. Carlson is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Demography and Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her primary research interests center on the links between family contexts and the wellbeing of children and parents. Her recent work is focused on changing patterns of parenthood and family complexity, including differences by socioeconomic status. She has published in a range of demography, family and general social science journals.


PSC Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Nov 2019 14:56:21 -0500 2019-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-18T13:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Marcy Carlson
TBD PSC Brown Bag (November 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68121 68121-17011960@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Monday, 11/18/2019, 12:00 pm
Location: ISR-Thompson 1430

Professor Carlson will discuss her recent research.

Dr. Carlson's primary research interests center on the associations between family contexts and the wellbeing of parents and children. Her recent work is focused on growing family diversity and complexity, particularly with respect to fertility patterns and fatherhood, as well as how family change is linked with inequality in both the U.S. and cross-national contexts.

PSC Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Oct 2019 12:44:41 -0400 2019-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-18T13:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Marcy Carlson
ISR CoderSpace with Paul Schulz (November 19, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67427 67427-16849195@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Paul Schulz is a senior consulting statistician and data scientist for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in statistical methods and computing, including hypothesis testing, data analysis and modelling, sampling (including weight creation and adjustment), and power calculation), as well as the use of secure computing enclaves (SRCVDI, Likert cluster, and Flux/Great Lakes). Paul writes code in Stata and SAS for general purpose desktop computing, and R and Python for selected applications, such as data visualization and web scraping/automation, among other uses.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:55 -0400 2019-11-19T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-19T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
ISR CoderSpace with Erin Ware (November 20, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67429 67429-16849209@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 9:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Dr. Ware is a self-taught HPC user and excited to host a weekly CoderSpace again! She is an Assistant Professor of Research in the Population, Neurodevelopment, and Genetics group at ISR. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on FLUX, MBNI, and other personal servers), batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling) and introductory statistics using R. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background. This fall semester, she is also teaching SIADS502: math methods for data science for the online master’s of data science degree program through the School of Information.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:37 -0400 2019-11-20T09:30:00-05:00 2019-11-20T10:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
ISR CoderSpace with Jule Krüger (November 21, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67432 67432-16849224@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Dr. Krüger is the ISR program manager for big data and data science, based within the Center for Political Studies. She has more than 10 years of experience in processing, analyzing and interpreting data for social science research. An expert on data generating processes, triangulating multiple databases, and expanding methodology for researching difficult to observe populations, Dr. Krüger has proficient knowledge in computer programming, statistical analysis and scientific methodology. Using a combination of R, Python, Markdown, Make, bash, LaTeX and version control, she is experienced in automating research workflows for scalable, auditable and reproducible analysis. In this CoderSpace, the primary focus is on the Python programming language, but coders working in other languages are equally welcome to attend.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Dec 2019 11:46:34 -0500 2019-11-21T14:30:00-05:00 2019-11-21T16:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
ISR CoderSpace with Paul Schulz (November 26, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67427 67427-16849196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Paul Schulz is a senior consulting statistician and data scientist for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in statistical methods and computing, including hypothesis testing, data analysis and modelling, sampling (including weight creation and adjustment), and power calculation), as well as the use of secure computing enclaves (SRCVDI, Likert cluster, and Flux/Great Lakes). Paul writes code in Stata and SAS for general purpose desktop computing, and R and Python for selected applications, such as data visualization and web scraping/automation, among other uses.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:55 -0400 2019-11-26T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-26T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
ISR CoderSpace with Erin Ware (November 27, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67429 67429-16849210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 27, 2019 9:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Dr. Ware is a self-taught HPC user and excited to host a weekly CoderSpace again! She is an Assistant Professor of Research in the Population, Neurodevelopment, and Genetics group at ISR. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on FLUX, MBNI, and other personal servers), batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling) and introductory statistics using R. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background. This fall semester, she is also teaching SIADS502: math methods for data science for the online master’s of data science degree program through the School of Information.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:37 -0400 2019-11-27T09:30:00-05:00 2019-11-27T10:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR