On Friday, August 7, staff from the Institute of Statistics held a workshop as part of the Centro de Periodismo Investigativo professional training series. Focusing on how to identify data related to the Puerto Rican diaspora, Dr. Ronald Hernández Maldonado, Lanselotte Oliveras Vega and Alberto L. Velázquez Estrada shared information on available sources and tools. Specifically, the session covered topics such as census data sources and their differences, community vulnerability estimates, custom tabulations using the U.S. Census Bureau's MDAT tool, and the cost-of-living index and its calculator for metropolitan areas in Puerto Rico and the United States.

Lecture biographies Poster of the activity

• Presentations
  • Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics: Creation and Mission
  • Act No. 190 of 2007
  • Statistical challenges of the survey on the U.S. and Puerto Rico community
  • Initiatives of the Institute 2007-08
  • Coordination of a national system of interministerial and interterritorial statistics
  • The ethical foundations in the management of statistical information
• CCE Member Designation
• Report

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To recognize the great contribution of statistics to the quality of life of all, the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics joins organizations around the world in celebrating World Statistics Day 2015. The objectives are:

1. Highlight the contributions of statistics in the different areas of knowledge.
2. Build an environment that brings together students, teachers, researchers, public employees, statisticians and other professionals who share a common interest in statistics.
3. To publicize the functions and contributions of the Institute in the community.

Presentations

• Dr. Mario Marazzi-Santiago, Greetings and welcome
• Dr. Anna Sandoval Girón, Qualitative Methods in the Design of Surveys and Evaluations
• Ben Wood, Modern Consumer Panel Research
• Dr. Qing Wu, Statistics at Google
• Steve Ellsworth, Socrates
• Carlos R. Torres-Cintrón, The transformation of Puerto Rico's cancer epidemiological surveillance system
• Dr. Roberto Rivera, Quality Issues with Data

Technology Hall

• Dr. Luis R. Pericchi, Hypothesis Testing and Estimation under a Bayesian Approach
• Dr. Wolfgang Rolke, Regression and Generalized Linear Models
• Stuart Gano, World Statistics Day

Materials

• Prog Photographs of the activity Photographs of the infographic competition Videos

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