An Overview of the UCR Statistical Consulting Collaboratory

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An Overview of the UCR Statistical Consulting
Collaboratory Daniel R. Jeske, 7/14/06

• Contents
• Who We Are
• Client Profile
• Things We Do
• Contact Information

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The Statistical Consulting Collaboratory at
UC-Riverside

• Provide statistical support services to UCR
  faculty and students
• Planning Experiments, Archiving
  Data
• Statistical Analyses, Statistical
  Software Subject Matter Support
• Help with Responses to Referees, Help
  with Proposal Writing
• 2. Research collaborations with faculty and
  graduate students when new
• statistical ideas, interpretations and
  approaches are needed
• Extension of services and collaborations
  objectives to public service efforts,
• with concentration on the greater Inland
  Empire area and various government
• agencies

• Enhance instructional effectiveness by
  facilitating hands-on consulting
• experience for Statistics students,
  coordinating campus-wide
• workshop opportunities, and providing
  fully outfitted computing and
• information management laboratories.
• Consulting Fees (primarily intended support
  student stipends)
• On-Campus Rate 62/hour
• Off-Campus Rate 105/hour

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Our Physical Infrastructure
Hardware Dell GX 260 Minitowers 2 GHz
P4 processors 1 GB Ram 40GB hard disk
Zip 250 CDRW-DVD combo 17"
hideaway flat panel monitors LCD projector
Instructor Workstation Software
ArcView EViews Gauss Limdep 7.0
Mathematica Matlab SAS
Scientific Workplace SPSS STATA
Systat
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A Brief History of Statistical Consulting at UCR
Initial Leadership for a Statistical Consulting
Laboratory was from Department of Statistics
Beginning around 1994 with efforts of Prof.
David Strauss (Emeritus), Prof. Keh-Shin Lii and
Prof. Robert Beaver (Emeritus). Their efforts
were were unofficial, in a volunteer mode
motivated largely by a sense of Professional
Responsibility. Idea conceived in 2001 for an
Official Director of a Statistical Consulting
Collaboratory with joint support from College of
Natural and Agricultural Sciences, College of
Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences and the
Office of Computing and Communications. A
faculty line position that included
responsibilities to provide the leadership for
growing the initiative in terms of client
development and student involvement was provided
to the Department of Statistics.
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A Brief History of Statistical Consulting at UCR
Funds were provided by CHASS and CC to fund the
salary and benefits of a M.S. level Statistician
and to be the Manager of the Collaboratory, and
to support software license fees. CHASS interest
is motivated by wanting the physical presence of
the Collaboratory in Sproul Hall, and having a
statistically trained Manager available to
consult with clients in the lab. CC interest is
motivated by wanting to elevate the level of
statistical computing and data analysis on the
campus. Director of Collaboratory was appointed
in Fall of 2003 and the Manager position was
filled in Spring of 2004.
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How Many Different Projects/Questions Are We
Working On?
2003
2004
2005
2006
Cumulative Frequency
Month
A client-project is a combination of a person and
a problem. The same person can generate multiple
client-projects.
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Where Are The Collaboratory Projects Coming From?
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How Many Students are We Supporting?
Hours Worked by Paid Collaboratory Student
Research Associates
2005
2006
2003
2004
Cumulative Hours
Month
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Students Employed By the Collaboratory 9/30/03
6/30/06
Adam
Jeff
Mike
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We Create Internship Opportunities for our
Student Research Associates .
Bell Laboratories Summer 2005 DHS Project
Integrien Corp. Summer 2006 Change-point Project
Integrien Corp. Summer 2006 Change-point Project
Linguistics and Cognition Lab (w/Curt Burgess,
UCR -Psychology) Spring 2006
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We Provide Content for the Graduate Student
Statistical Consulting Course .

• Lecture introductions to interesting topics
  related to Collaboratory projects that are not
  particularly covered in other classes. This
  years topics included
• Change-point Detection Methods
• Statistical Tolerance Intervals
• Strong vs. Weak Control of Multiple Comparisons
• Bradley-Terry Modeling
• Spatial Congressional Voting Models

• Individual, Small Group and Round-Robin Projects
• Projects derived from Collaboratory projects
• Students responsible for clear and stylish
  communication of results to entire class and
  the clients

3) Client Visitations This Year Robert Luck,
Entomology Tollis Kapranis, Entomology Dominque
Belanger, CNAS Deans Office Greg Walker,
Entomology
Sarkis Khoury, Anderson School of
Business Loretta Bates, Botany and Plant
Sciences Sam Puma, Off-campus client Mark
Neiswender, Political Science Mikeal Roose,
Botany and Plant Sciences
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We Decorate the Campus With Our Work .

• Collaboratory Posters
• 8 posters on the walls of STAT-COMP
• 2 posters in Sproul and one in HMNSS
• Students responsible for poster design and
  construction
• Collaboratory staff ensures quality control

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We Initiated and Sponsor a Student Consulting
Award .
2004 2004 2004 2005 2005 2006
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We Are Collaborating With Claremont McKenna
College to Develop Undergraduate Statistics
Student Recruiting Tools
Summer 2004 Hyper_Fishing Summer 2005
Streaky Baseball Summer 2006 Dating
Game 33K from CMC for Student
Stipends. Collaboratory has kicked in about 1/3
of that.
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Over the 3 Years We Have Forged a Complimentary
and Productive Alliance!

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We Sponsor Workshops and Recruiting Events
STATA Workshop Jan 14, 2004 Location
Collaboratory Speaker Prof. Peter Burke,
Sociology Topic Tutorial on the STATA Software
Package UCR SAS Day May 14, 2004 Location
Collaboratory Speakers SAS Staff Topics Data
Mining Procedures, Mixed Models
Procedures Workshop on Statistical Applications
in Sociology April 3, 2006 Location
Collaboratory Speakers Prof. Keith Poole,
UCSD Topics Statistical Methods for Measuring
Ideology of the U.S. Congress Co-sponsor of the
Southern California Chapter of the American
Statistical Associations Career Day February
25, 2006
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We Create Publication Opportunities for
Collaboratory Student Research Associates

• 2005 ACM SIGKDD Conference paper (5 students
  total, 3 undergraduates)
• 2006 ITNG Conference paper (4 students total, 3
  undergraduates)
• 2006 Milcomm Conference paper submitted (2
  students total, 1 undergraduate
• Manuscript submitted to Journal of Statistics
  Education (2 graduate students)

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For More Information Please Contact
Daniel R. Jeske Associate Professor
Director of the Statistical Consulting
Collaboratory Department of Statistics University
of California Riverside, CA 92521 Tel
951-827-3014 Fax [phone] Email
daniel.jeske_at_ucr.edu