Statistical Consulting Group Acknowledgements
The Statistical Consulting Group receives help and support from many people
and companies from around the world. We receive help from people who send us
comments and suggestions for our web site, authors who kindly permit us to
make textbook examples for their books, from people who have permitted us
to place and/or adapt their materials for our web site, and from those who
just send us kind emails. We appreciate all of this help. We specifically
would like to acknowledge the help and support we have received from the
following folks and corporations, listed in alphabetical
order.
- Google - We are very grateful to
Google, the search engine used for our pages, for providing its free
University search. This helps our researchers to efficiently find the pages
they need.
- Mplus - We are very grateful to
the Mplus team for their help and assistance. They are always very generous
with their information and have been a tremendous resource assisting us to
solve very difficult problems and have helped us with simulations in Mplus.
- Bengt
Muthén - We are very grateful to Professor Muthén for being so generous
with his time and knowledge, welcoming us to learn from him and his
colleagues, collaborating with us and his colleagues to provide
seminars featuring
Mplus, and most of all allowing us to host movies of
his seminars and course sessions on our web site.
- Judith Singer
and John Willett -
We are very grateful to Professors Singer and Willett for permitting us to
host their seminar Longitudinal
Research: Present Status and Future Prospects by Judith Singer & John
Willett which contains downloadable notes and movies drawing from
examples in their book. We also wish to thank them for providing us
pre-release access to Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis so we could create
textbook examples
that were ready by the time their book was released.
- SPSS - We are very grateful to SPSS
for their support in helping the statistical consulting group to support our
SPSS community here at UCLA.
- Stata Corporation - We are very
grateful to Stata Corporation for their constant support and help. We thank
them for linking to our web site from their web pages, linking to our pages
via the findit command, providing us promotional materials for Stata
seminars, and being always willing to go above and beyond the call of duty
to provide us tremendous help and resources. Our sincerest thanks go out to
Stata Corporation and the terrific people who work there.
- Statistical Innovations
- We are very grateful to the kind people at Statistical Innovations for
generously providing us help and resources to learn about their Latent Gold
program and for helping us get our support for Latent Gold off the ground.
- Techsmith - We are very grateful
to Techsmith for supporting us with
Camtasia
Studio, the program that permits us to record many of our seminars and
other web pages that feature movies to illustrate the use of statistical
packages, as well as
SnagIt,
the program used to provide the screenshots found on our web site. We are
also grateful to them for providing promotional materials for our seminar on
Camtasia.
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University of California.