News
June 13, 2013
Growing from a collaboration project, LISA Collaborator Jonathan Stallings recently published an article in PNAS on a collaboration bibliometric. Phys.org provided a wonderful article summarizing the work.
April 18, 2013
On April 18th from 3:30-4:30 pm in 300 Seitz, Dr.Eric Vance, Director of LISA (Virginia Tech's Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis), presented a colloquium in honor of the International Year of Statistics entitled “LISA 2020 and Ut Prosim: Building statistics capacity in developing countries.”
April 12, 2013
Dr. Eric Vance and Dr. Ralph Hall at Virginia Tech describe how they developed the concept of an "on-the-ground statistician" to advance their data collection and cleaning practices in relation to large-scale household surveys.
April 12, 2013
Data science is "the sexiest job in the 21st century" according to the Harvard Business Review. LISA collaborators are gaining experience as data scientists with each project they work on!
April 11, 2013
Eric Vance and Ralph Hall will discuss their experiences preparing students to conduct fieldwork on interdisciplinary research projects in developing countries.
April 3, 2013
The LISA 2020 website is now live and accepting applications from individuals interested in becoming our first LISA Fellow.
March 15, 2013
LISA has received a grant from Google for our LISA 2020 project with the goal of training at least 20 statisticians to create a network of 20 statistical laboratories in developing countries by 2020.
March 8, 2013
Happy International Women's Day! Statistics 2013 participants laud women statisticians for advancing statistical sciences.
February 2, 2013
Interested in earning a PhD in statistics and working with LISA? Check out our flyer. Please share it with any interested individuals!
January 1, 2013
Welcome to the International Year of Statistics!
August 10, 2012
How LISA fosters collaboration, an invited talk at JSM 2012 by Dr. Eric Vance has just been posted.
June 1, 2012
Check out Dr. Vance's article on "International Experiences in Statistics" in the AmstatNews.
February 1, 2012
In a recently published paper, Nigerian statistician Olawale Olushina Awe cites LISA as the example for African universities to follow as he calls for the establishment of statistical consulting centers and the training of young statisticians in consulting in all universities in Africa.
April 5, 2011
Dr. Eric Vance, director of LISA, gave a talk entitled "Using Social Network Analysis to Understand Aspects of Behavior in African Elephants" to the CESCA (Center for Embedded Systems for Critical Analysis) group on March 25. This talk is now posted on Vimeo!
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