At the weekly seminar hosted by the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS), Dr. Yuichi Shoda (Psychology) will present on the limits of traditional null hypothesis significance testing in scientific endeavors. For example, increasing the precision of a study (e.g., by increasing the sample size) makes it easier to find statistical significance, with the result that any theory predicting a non-zero effect is considered supported—even if it explains only a small portion of the phenomenon of interest. This is not the case when using the “null regions framework” if the observed value falls within the “null region”—the range of population values that researchers aim to rule out (e.g., effects or associations that are too small to matter, even if not exactly zero). This framework provides tests to address questions such as: “Is the effect strong enough to matter?” and “Is the effect close enough to the predicted value to suggest that the theory that predicted it should be retained?” Learn more here.
The NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) and participating NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices (ICOs) invite institutional career development award applications for Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) Career Development Programs, hereafter termed “Programs”. Programs will support mentored research career development of junior faculty members, known as BIRCWH Scholars, who have recently completed clinical training or postdoctoral fellowships, and who will be engaged in interdisciplinary basic, translational, data science, behavioral, clinical, and/or health services research relevant to the health of women and, where appropriate, the use of both sexes to better understand the influence of sex as a biological variable on health and disease.
This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) allows appointment of Scholars (K12) proposing to serve as the lead investigator of an independent clinical trial; or proposing a separate ancillary clinical trial; or proposing to gain research experience in a clinical trial led by another investigator, as part of their research and career development.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Food Insight Group, and Chef Ann Foundation recently announced a Request for Research Proposals entitled “Understanding the
School Food Workforce Subgrants.” The group is looking for research projects that will increase understanding of the current state of the K-12 school food workforce in the United States and/or explore strategies to create a stable and respected workforce that can provide healthy meals to students while supporting resilient local and regional food systems. You are invited to join an informational webinar on December 18 (register here) and access the full RFP here.
This seminar from the Center for Aging, Climate, & Health (CACHE) uses two ongoing interdisciplinary, research projects to illustrate techniques for integrating social and environmental data at the county scale. The project engage different social data (American Time Use Survey; National Health Interview Survey) and different climate-related data (temperature data from GridMET; disaster data from FEMA and SHELDUS). Investigators will review project goals, background on data and measurement decisions, and integration and analytical strategies. Learn more and register here.
Each quarter, CSDE offers 3-5 workshops on data sources, statistical and biomarker methodology, introductions to analysis programs, and more, all given by CSDE staff and faculty affiliates.
Check out the winter workshop offerings here!
Winter Workshops (select workshops to register):
An international symposium bringing together migration researchers to discuss innovative research on migrants and their descendants. Contributions in the following research areas of migration studies are sought: fertility and family; employment and education; housing and residential mobility; and ageing, health, and mortality. Learn more here.
The Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics (COPAFS) has drafted a letter regarding the recent incidents involving data being selectively removed from agency websites. This letter to Senate and House leadership expresses opposition to this unprecedented removal of public data and requesting Congress take action to restore any data which has been removed and ensure a similar data purge does not occur again. Signatures are being accepted from both organizations and individuals until noon (ET), Friday, February 7.