Aaron Kline and Sheila Barron - Colloquium Speakers

Aaron Kline Associate Director, Iowa Social Science Research Center and Sheila Barron Adjunct Assistant Professor, Educational Measurement & Statistics Head of Statistics Outreach Center, College of Education
Date: 
Thursday, February 11, 2016 - 3:30pm
Colloquium Title: 
Overview of the Iowa Social Science Research Center and Statistics Outreach Center
Location: 
Reception at 3:00 p.m. in 241 SH / Talk at 3:30 in 61 SH

The Iowa Social Science Research Center (ISRC) is a UI and community-wide resource for inter-disciplinary social science research. ISRC offerings include grant develop-ment support, data collection and management services and methodological consulting.  An overview of the ISRC’s services will be provided, detailing how the ISRC can assist researchers and students in: obtaining external funding, collecting primary data from diverse population targets and acquiring methodological support for data in-terpretation, data management and study planning. 

The Statistics Outreach Center (SOC) was created to assist faculty, staff, and students with research design, data analysis, and interpretation. Our mission is fundamental-ly educational; we provide assistance to researchers to de-velop the skills needed to design their own research, con-duct the analyses, understand the results, and communi-cate their findings to an audience. In addition to statisti-cal consulting, the SOC offers statistical software training courses and seminars. Each semester we offer free short courses to help researchers from across campus get start-ed with popular statistical software like SAS, SPSS, and R. We also offer training tailored to the needs of specific groups on request.

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