The Department of Statistics hosts a biweekly reading group reading group on observational studies, which often focuses on network analysis.
SPRING 2016 SCHEDULE
The Spring 2016 schedule can be found here.
AUTUMN 2015 SCHEDULE
- Tu 09/01 – Introduction to Networks and Planning Session – Kate Calder, Department of Statistics
- Tu 09/15 – Network Comparison Methods: Reference Distributions for Networks of Different Sizes – Anna Smith, Department of Statistics
- Tu 09/29 – Some Theory for Network Comparison/Inference – Dena Asta, Department of Statistics
- Tu 10/13 – Experimental Evidence of Social Influence on Voter Turnout – Robert Bond, School of Communication and Department of Sociology
- Tu 10/27 – A Discussion of “The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network over 32 Years” by Christakis and Fowler – Wenna Xi, Department of Statistics and Division of Biostatistics
- Tu 11/10 – A Discussion of “Homophily and Contagion Are Generically Confounded in Observational Social Network Studies” by Shalizi and Thomas – All (please read paper in advance of the meeting)
- Tu 11/24 – A Discussion of “The Spread of Behavior in an Online Social Network Experiment” – Elly Kaizar, Department of Statistics
- Tu 12/08 – Metric Graph Comparison – Yusu Wang, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Students may register for course credit by enrolling in STAT 8750.08 – Research Group in Observational Data.
To be added to the reading group mailing list, email Kate Calder.