Archive for the ‘Fall 2007 MAPSS Talks’ Category
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
November 27th
Jonathan Wand is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University and a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Scholar at the University of Michigan. His applied and computational statistical research interests include models of dynamic and strategic individual choice behavior, non-parametric and semi-parametric scaling ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
The talk will take place at the Meyer Forum Room at 12:15 pm.
Bio: Arie Kapteyn is a senior economist at the RAND Corporation and director of RAND Labor and Population. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, past president of the European Society for Population
Economics, and corresponding member of ...
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Saturday, October 20th, 2007
The talk will be held at the Meyer Forum Room, Room 124
Bio: Mark Appelbaum is a Professor of Psychology at UCSD and until July 1 of this year was Associate Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Education at UCSD. Appelbaum specializes in Quantitative Psychology including applied statistics, experimental design, applied measurement and ...
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
Presented by Dr. Brian Wandell
Location: Meyer Forum Room
Visual cortex has been an excellent model system for developing a quantitative understanding of brain function. We understand a great deal about the physical signals that initiate vision, and this knowledge has led to a relatively advanced understanding of the organization of major ...
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Friday, October 5th, 2007
Data is the life blood for research in the social sciences. However, getting the data you need can often be a problem. Data is often expensive and time consuming to collect. And given that only a small percentage of primary data is ever archived, a vast collection of data ...
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