2015 Program
Slides and Handout from 36th Annual Institute on Research and Statistics
· A Cyclostationary Process with Missing Observations and a Multivariate T-distribution Error Process
· A Proposed Approach for Constructing a Composite Performance Measure
· Ischemic Stroke Patient Characteristics and Outcomes in California Hospitals
· The Correlation of Marijuana, Alcohol, and Other Drug Use with Risky Driving Behavior
· Comparing the Effects of Two Value-Based Purchasing Health Insurance Benefit Programs
· The Quantitas Capital Approach to Portfolio Management
· Role of Statisticians in BIG DATA World
· Bayesian Statistics for Personalized Medicine
2014 program
Slides and Handout from 35th Annual Institute on Research and Statistics
· Data on a Shoestring: Surveying California’s Women Veterans
· Methods, Models and More: Recent Developments in SAS/STAT® Software
· Ranking Influence in General Statistical Problems
· Now You SeeIt, Now You Don’t: Using SeeIt to Compare Stacked Dotplots to Boxplots
· Adapting the AHRQ Inpatient Mortality Indicators for Public Reporting in California
· Regression Estimation of Covariance Matrix
2013 Program
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2010 Program:
Slides and Handout from 31st Annual Institute on Research and Statistics
· Current California Economic Outlook
· Getting Started with ODS Statistical Graphics in SAS 9.2
· The Economy Today: What Our Measures Tell Us About The Current Recession
2009 Program
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2006 Program
2005 Program:
Presentation by Daniel Smith, Ph.D. Overlapping confidence intervals are not a statistical test.
2003 Program:
visual aids
2002 Program