walk-in consulting hours for December
Greetings,
We wanted to let you know that walk-in consulting will be closed a couple of afternoons in December. Walk-in statistical consulting will be closed the afternoon of Tuesday, December 5 and Tuesday, December 12. Please see http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/Schedule/default.htm for details.
Also, Friday, December 15 will be the last day of walk-in consulting for 2006.
Happy Holidays!
Statistical Consulting Group
UCLA Academic Technology Services
http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/
We wanted to let you know that walk-in consulting will be closed a couple of afternoons in December. Walk-in statistical consulting will be closed the afternoon of Tuesday, December 5 and Tuesday, December 12. Please see http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/Schedule/default.htm for details.
Also, Friday, December 15 will be the last day of walk-in consulting for 2006.
Happy Holidays!
Statistical Consulting Group
UCLA Academic Technology Services
http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/
Applied Statistics Courses at UCLA for Winter 2007
Greetings,
We have updated our web page Applied Statistics Courses Offered at UCLA to reflect the course offerings for the Winter 2007 quarter. There are lots of great classes being offered, which means great opportunities to pick up statistical skills. Please see http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/Schedule/UCLAStatcourses.htm for more details.
Happy computing!
We have updated our web page Applied Statistics Courses Offered at UCLA to reflect the course offerings for the Winter 2007 quarter. There are lots of great classes being offered, which means great opportunities to pick up statistical skills. Please see http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/Schedule/UCLAStatcourses.htm for more details.
Happy computing!
statistical consulting schedule for Thanksgiving week
Greetings,
Thanksgiving is next week, and walk-in statistical consulting will be closed the latter part of the week.
We will have our regular walk-in consulting hours Monday and Tuesday, November 20-21, from 10-12 and 2-4. On Wednesday, November 22, walk-in consulting will be open from 10-12.
Walk-in consulting will be closed Wednesday afternoon, Thursday and Friday.
Walk-in consulting will reopen with our regular consulting hours on Monday, November 27.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Thanksgiving is next week, and walk-in statistical consulting will be closed the latter part of the week.
We will have our regular walk-in consulting hours Monday and Tuesday, November 20-21, from 10-12 and 2-4. On Wednesday, November 22, walk-in consulting will be open from 10-12.
Walk-in consulting will be closed Wednesday afternoon, Thursday and Friday.
Walk-in consulting will reopen with our regular consulting hours on Monday, November 27.
Happy Thanksgiving!
statistical consulting closed Friday, November 10
Greetings,
This is a friendly reminder that statistical consulting will be closed this Friday, November 10, for Veteran's Day. Walk-in consulting will reopen on Monday, November 13 at 10 am with our regular consulting hours.
Happy Veteran's Day!
Statistical Consulting Group
UCLA Academic Technology Services
http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/
This is a friendly reminder that statistical consulting will be closed this Friday, November 10, for Veteran's Day. Walk-in consulting will reopen on Monday, November 13 at 10 am with our regular consulting hours.
Happy Veteran's Day!
Statistical Consulting Group
UCLA Academic Technology Services
http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/
Passing the Baton
With all of this talk of my departure, some have asked about who will be the new leader of the Statistical Consulting Group. I am genuinely delighted to say that Xiao Chen will be the new leader of the group.
Xiao has been a consultant with the group for over 6 years, providing excellent help via her outstanding statistical skills combined with her passion for acquiring and sharing knowledge. She understands the need to constantly investigate new and cutting edge statistical methods as we search for tools that may become useful for our researchers. Plus, she thinks very strategically about how we can best deliver our services to our clients, helping them with their research needs. With her vision and compassion, I have deep faith and trust in her leadership to provide UCLA with excellent support for their statistical computing questions. I hope that you will join me in welcoming her as the new leader of the group and look forward to the exciting things the group will accomplish under her leadership. You can reach her via email directly at jingy1 at ucla dot edu .
Congratulations Xiao!
Michael Mitchell
Xiao has been a consultant with the group for over 6 years, providing excellent help via her outstanding statistical skills combined with her passion for acquiring and sharing knowledge. She understands the need to constantly investigate new and cutting edge statistical methods as we search for tools that may become useful for our researchers. Plus, she thinks very strategically about how we can best deliver our services to our clients, helping them with their research needs. With her vision and compassion, I have deep faith and trust in her leadership to provide UCLA with excellent support for their statistical computing questions. I hope that you will join me in welcoming her as the new leader of the group and look forward to the exciting things the group will accomplish under her leadership. You can reach her via email directly at jingy1 at ucla dot edu .
Congratulations Xiao!
Michael Mitchell
Fond Farewell from Michael Mitchell
For the last 12 years, I have been very grateful and very fortunate to have been a statistical consultant here at UCLA. It has allowed me to learn so many things, and the joy of sharing what I have learned with our researchers via consulting and our web site. Because of the deep affection and gratitude that I feel for this position and the mission of our group, it is very bittersweet to announce that I will be leaving UCLA effective October 27th. My commute has grown longer and longer over the years and I will be moving to a position nearby with a 15 minute commute where I will work as a statistician and consultant.
I want to send a special message to the UCLA researchers with whom I have worked over the years. I have thoroughly enjoyed working with you on all of the different problems you have brought. It has always warmed my heart how kind, patient, and warm all of you have been. Even as you have had to wait for answers, watch me stare at the ceiling hoping for inspiration, seen me fumble around trying out numerous wrong answers before finding a right one, you have always been so warm and patient as I sought answers. I am also so grateful for the way that you have endeavored to find answers for yourselves via books and/or our web site, and then coming to us after you have given it your best shot. As we added more materials to our web site, you answered the easier questions from our web site, allowing us to focus on your more challenging questions in consulting. Of course, those challenging questions led to more resources on the web site, and so the spiral of information continues upwards. When you look at our web site, remember that *you* have contributed to its creation by the way that you use it to answer your questions and by asking us challenging questions which form the basis for future material. I have thoroughly enjoyed working with all of you, and some of my fondest memories are of being in that consulting office working statistical problems with you.
Now, a special message to our non-UCLA friends. When we created the statistical computing web site over 7 years ago, we had the philosophy of providing information to our UCLA clients to help them with common problems, but at the same time we recognized that there was an opportunity to provide the information to the world as well at no extra cost. We thought of this as a "twofer", two for the price of one. When our site reached one million hits, we were delighted over the idea that people from around the world thought enough of our site to visit enough to bring us up to one million hits. Our site now has now exceeded 30 million hits, and we continue to be delighted at all of the visits we receive. Not only that, we have received numerous kind and thoughtful emails from visitors all over the world just contacting us to say that they have enjoyed and benefited from our site. It is humbling to think that every day researchers from all corners of the world are using our site. Your visits and kind emails inspire us to continue to provide more information in such a way that it not only helps our UCLA researchers, but also can reach you as well.
And, finally, I wish to send a message to those who have reached out to help us on our site, collaborators of many forms. From those who have send us "error reports" catching errors on our site, to those who have collaborated with us by reviewing pages, reviewing programs, and working with us in a variety of ways, thank you for your generous help.
Sometimes people fret that technology separates us, but to me this is an example where technology brings us together to do more than we could alone. Thank you for your contributions to help us build this site for everyone.
While my new position will be filled with many new and exciting challenges, I will always remember and be extremely grateful for everything that all of you have given me over these years. As always, correspondence with the group should be directed to our ATSstat at UCLA dot edu email address. If you wish to correspond with me personally (and I would very much enjoy that), you can continue to reach me at the same email address, mnm located at ucla dot edu.
Fond farewell!
Michael Mitchell
UCLA ATS Statistical Consulting Group
I want to send a special message to the UCLA researchers with whom I have worked over the years. I have thoroughly enjoyed working with you on all of the different problems you have brought. It has always warmed my heart how kind, patient, and warm all of you have been. Even as you have had to wait for answers, watch me stare at the ceiling hoping for inspiration, seen me fumble around trying out numerous wrong answers before finding a right one, you have always been so warm and patient as I sought answers. I am also so grateful for the way that you have endeavored to find answers for yourselves via books and/or our web site, and then coming to us after you have given it your best shot. As we added more materials to our web site, you answered the easier questions from our web site, allowing us to focus on your more challenging questions in consulting. Of course, those challenging questions led to more resources on the web site, and so the spiral of information continues upwards. When you look at our web site, remember that *you* have contributed to its creation by the way that you use it to answer your questions and by asking us challenging questions which form the basis for future material. I have thoroughly enjoyed working with all of you, and some of my fondest memories are of being in that consulting office working statistical problems with you.
Now, a special message to our non-UCLA friends. When we created the statistical computing web site over 7 years ago, we had the philosophy of providing information to our UCLA clients to help them with common problems, but at the same time we recognized that there was an opportunity to provide the information to the world as well at no extra cost. We thought of this as a "twofer", two for the price of one. When our site reached one million hits, we were delighted over the idea that people from around the world thought enough of our site to visit enough to bring us up to one million hits. Our site now has now exceeded 30 million hits, and we continue to be delighted at all of the visits we receive. Not only that, we have received numerous kind and thoughtful emails from visitors all over the world just contacting us to say that they have enjoyed and benefited from our site. It is humbling to think that every day researchers from all corners of the world are using our site. Your visits and kind emails inspire us to continue to provide more information in such a way that it not only helps our UCLA researchers, but also can reach you as well.
And, finally, I wish to send a message to those who have reached out to help us on our site, collaborators of many forms. From those who have send us "error reports" catching errors on our site, to those who have collaborated with us by reviewing pages, reviewing programs, and working with us in a variety of ways, thank you for your generous help.
Sometimes people fret that technology separates us, but to me this is an example where technology brings us together to do more than we could alone. Thank you for your contributions to help us build this site for everyone.
While my new position will be filled with many new and exciting challenges, I will always remember and be extremely grateful for everything that all of you have given me over these years. As always, correspondence with the group should be directed to our ATSstat at UCLA dot edu email address. If you wish to correspond with me personally (and I would very much enjoy that), you can continue to reach me at the same email address, mnm located at ucla dot edu.
Fond farewell!
Michael Mitchell
UCLA ATS Statistical Consulting Group
Did You Know?
The UCLA ATS Stat Computing Group has created a Stata program called -didyouknow- . Each time this program is run, a message is displayed (at random) mentioning a Stata feature along with a web link you can click for more information. This program can be installed from within Stata by typing
net from http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ado/util
net install didyouknow
You can then type
help didyouknow
to see the help file. The help file describes how you can set up -didyouknow- so it will run each time you start Stata. (For those familiar with UNIX, it is kind of like the -fortune- program.)
We hope that you download and enjoy this program.
Happy computing!
net from http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ado/util
net install didyouknow
You can then type
help didyouknow
to see the help file. The help file describes how you can set up -didyouknow- so it will run each time you start Stata. (For those familiar with UNIX, it is kind of like the -fortune- program.)
We hope that you download and enjoy this program.
Happy computing!
stat consulting closed 9/18-9/22 and new hours for Fall Quarter
Greetings,
This is a reminder that walk-in stat consulting will be closed next week, from September 18-22.
Statistical consulting will reopen Monday, September 25 and will begin our new consulting hours. The walk-in consulting hours for Fall Quarter 2006 will be:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 10-12 and 2-4; Thursday 10-12; Friday 11-1.
Please note that our hours are subject to change, so please visit http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/Schedule/default.htm for the latest updates.
Happy Computing,
Statistical Consulting Group
UCLA Academic Technology Services
http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/
UCLA researchers are welcome and invited to walk-in consulting.
4919 Math Sciences (see lab #5 at http://www.computerlabs.ucla.edu/Map.asp)
This is a reminder that walk-in stat consulting will be closed next week, from September 18-22.
Statistical consulting will reopen Monday, September 25 and will begin our new consulting hours. The walk-in consulting hours for Fall Quarter 2006 will be:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 10-12 and 2-4; Thursday 10-12; Friday 11-1.
Please note that our hours are subject to change, so please visit http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/Schedule/default.htm for the latest updates.
Happy Computing,
Statistical Consulting Group
UCLA Academic Technology Services
http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/
UCLA researchers are welcome and invited to walk-in consulting.
4919 Math Sciences (see lab #5 at http://www.computerlabs.ucla.edu/Map.asp)
