Events

This talk will introduce the concepts and jargon of structural equation modeling (SEM).  We will demonstrate how to fit SEMs for continuous outcomes using the -sem- command in Stata.  We...

If you currently use Hoffman2 or are interested in doing so, this is a great opportunity to get information on UCLA’s shared high-performance computing environment and provide feedback to the...

The purpose of this workshop is to discuss commonly used techniques for handling missing data and common issues that could arise when these techniques are used. In particular, the se...

This workshop will show how descriptive analyses, both numerical and graphical, can be done with continuous and categorical variables.  Subpopulation analysis will be discussed, and then examples of OLS regression...

    Speaker: Omar I. Asensio, Ph.D., IDRE Scholar Institute of the Environment & Sustainability, Anderson School of Management Ziman Center, UCLA Time:  12 p.m. to 1 p.m. (Lunch will...

This workshop will introduce some fundamental topics in regression analysis using SPSS in three parts. The first part will begin with a brief overview of the SPSS environment, as well...

R is a powerful statistical package that runs on many platforms, including Windows, Macintosh and Unix. This class is designed for people who are just getting started using R. The...

This workshop introduces how to use the R ggplot2 package to produce publication-quality graphics, particularly for data analysis accompanying a planned regression model. First, the underlying grammar (system) of graphics...

This workshop covers descriptive analyses, both numerical and graphical, with both continuous and categorical variables.  Subpopulation analysis will be discussed, and then examples of OLS regression and logistic regression will...

  Speaker: Dr. Zhenman Fang, Ph.D., IDRE Scholar, Computer Science Department, University of California, Los Angeles Time: 11:45 A.M. - 1 P.M. (Lunch will be serverd*) Date: Apr 12, 2017...

Mplus is a powerful statistical package used for the analysis of both observed and latent variables. Among the kinds of analysis it can perform are exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor...

This workshop introduces methods of analyzing interactions (moderated effects) in regression models:  calculating, comparing and graphing simple effects and slopes.  Specifically, we emphasize the use of proc plm and the...

Description:  This course is for users who want to learn how to write SAS programs. It is the entry point to learning SAS programming and is a prerequisite to many...

Instructors: Yoh Kawano and Albert Kochaphum This workshop is for those who want to use film as a method of research, whether in creating a documentary film, or to collect...

This workshop covers Stata commands and methods for common data management tasks, such as identifying data errors, identifying duplicated data, specifying missing values, working with string variables, labeling variables, creating...

Instructors: Yoh Kawano, Andy Rutkowski, and Albert Kochaphum. Having a hard time finding a data source? This workshop will go over strategies for locating and using a variety of open...

This session is a general introduction to how to use UCLA Hoffman2 Cluster. The objective is to familiarize current and potential cluster users with the Hoffman2 Cluster, so they can...

Instructors: Albert Kochaphum and Pete Broadwell Starting with a simple introduction to Python, this workshop will demonstrate how to turn structured data from any website into a csv file. Topics...

Instructors: Yoh Kawano, Albert Kochaphum, Andy Rutkowski. This workshop will go over step-by-step how to create a map using ArcGIS. We will discuss spatial joins, styling data, and how to...

Instructors: Yoh Kawano, Andy Rutkowski, and Albert Kochaphum The workshop will be the culmination of the workshop series by teaching a platform in which to showcase projects. Ranging from CartoDB...

Instructor: Bruce McCrimmon This workshop will go through how to import and creating 3D models from Maya for animating in Adobe After Effects. Basic skills to be covered are converting...

This workshop is for those who need to learn data manipulation techniques using SAS data and procedure steps to access, transform, and summarize SAS data sets. The course builds on...

UCLA-IDRE along with XSEDE and Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is pleased to announce a two day Big Data workshop (September 12-13, 2017, 8 AM-2 PM PDT each day). This workshop will...

Stata is a powerful and yet easy-to-use statistical package that runs on Windows, Macintosh and Unix platforms. This class is designed for people who are just getting started using Stata. The students in the class will have a hands-on experience using Stata for statistics, graphics and data management. The class notes can be found at https://stats.idre.ucla.edu/stata/seminars/notes/ .

SAS is a powerful statistical package that runs on many platforms, including Windows and Unix. This class is designed for people who are just getting started using SAS. The students in the class will have a hands-on experience using SAS for statistics, graphics, and data management. The class notes can be found at https://stats.idre.ucla.edu/sas/seminars/notes/ .

The Hoffman2 cluster is a powerful computational resource for the UCLA research community. This class is designed to clarify the process of porting your own applications on the cluster or...

This class will address the process of creating Matlab standalone executables and running Matlab in batch, as well as running Abaqus python scripts. Example of how to submit array jobs...

SPSS is a very easy-to-use statistical package that runs on Windows, Macintosh and UNIX platforms. This class is designed for people who are just starting to use SPSS. The students in the class will have a hands-on experience using SPSS for doing statistics, graphics, and data management. The class notes are the scripts for the class. The class notes can be found at https://stats.idre.ucla.edu/spss/seminars/notes/ .

MPI (message passing interface) is the de facto standard for distributed-memory parallel scientific computing. While the entire MPI API is quite extensive, this class will cover a number of key...

Python, originally developed as a general purpose programming language, has gained its popularity in the scientific community in recently years owning to its elegant and easy- to-understand syntax and powerful...

Part-I session of Computing Environment on Linux class is aimed to help researchers who are new to the Linux system. This two hour session will introduce basic Unix/Linux commands, shells,...

The Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, and the National Aeronautical Space Agency support an ecosystem of “leadership class” computing facilities housing some of the world’s most advanced supercomputers and...

R is a powerful and yet easy-to-use statistical package that runs on Windows, Macintosh and Unix platforms. This class is designed for people who are just getting started using R....

November SPC event at UCLA is tentatively scheduled for Thursday, 11/30 10 am - 12 pm PDT (11 am - 1 pm MDT). It will be a technical workshop on...

UCLA-IDRE along with XSEDE and Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is pleased to announce a two day Big Data workshop (February 7-8, 2018, 8 AM-2 PM PDT each day). This workshop will...

Mplus is a powerful statistical package used for the analysis of both observed and latent variables. Among the kinds of analysis it can perform are exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor...