SRI's Statistical Analysis

SRI's Statistical Analysis Program supports projects in a wide variety of subject areas, including biostatistics, economics, education, chemistry, survey research, engineering, marketing, quality management, environmental analysis and litigation. Statistical analysis services include:

• Formulating research questions so that they are amenable to statistical analysis
  
• Determining the data necessary to address those questions
  
• Estimating available precision and power
  
• Reliability analyses
  
• Selecting and weighting complex samples
  
• Randomization of subjects to treatments
  
• Database management
  
• Statistical analyses and documentation of outcomes
  
• Serving as expert witnesses in litigation
  

SRI also serves as the Data Coordinating Center for two clinical projects: Prospective Assessment after Pediatric Cardiac Ablation (PAPCA) and Centers for Heart Failure Arrhythmia Research and Therapy (CHART). SRI also provides statistical analysis assistance to the National Behavioral Research Coordination Center (NBRCC).

Statistical Analysis Services Clients

The Statistical Analysis Program has provided statistical analysis consulting services for a wide variety of clients, including:

• U.S. government clients: Department of Education, National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Energy, Office of Naval Research, Department of Commerce, National Institutes of Health, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Army Medical Research and Development Command, U.S. Geological Survey, Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, and Department of Transportation
  
• California government clients: Department of Health Services, Office of the Attorney General, Public Utilities Commission, Air Resources Board, Department of Education, First Five Commission, and Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program
  
• Foundation and university clients: Stanford University, Ohio State University, the Gates Foundation, Education Leaders Council, Packard Foundation, Fulbright Foundation, University of Southern California, Packard Foundation, and Western Consortium for Public Health
  
• Industry clients:
  
  • Pharmaceuticals and devices: Pfizer, Wyeth-Ayerst, Astra/Merck, CV Therapeutics, Angiotech, Biogen Idec, Tenet Healthcare, PhRMA, SmithKline Beecham, Berlex, Johnson & Johnson, Ciba-Geigy, Medco, Merck, Eli Lilly, Humphrey Instruments, Mallinckrodt Medical, Upjohn
    
  • Food: Perseco, Pillsbury
    
  • Travel: Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, California State Automobile Association, Worldspan
    
  • Electronics and software: CustomerCast, Gartner Group, Fujitsu
    
  • Education: Scientific Learning, Delta Education, Corporation for Public Broadcasting
    
  • Insurance: New York Life
    
  • Survey research: Field Research
    
  • Telecommunications: AT&T, Pacific Bell, Verizon, Pacific Telecom Cable
    
  • Automobiles: General Motors
    
  • Chemicals: Berol-Kemi, Chemical Manufacturers Association, Monsanto, Dow
    
  • Waste management: Nor-Cal
    
  • Securities: Nikko, Reuters
    
  • Transportation: ASF Corporation, Greenbrier
    
  • Banking: VISA, Bank of America, Crocker Bank
    
  • Energy: Gas Research Institute, Electric Power Research Institute, Chevron
    
  • Legal: more than a dozen law firms
    

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Education Statistics- Australian

Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)

The ABS aims to assist and encourage informed decision making, research and discussion within governments and the community, by leading a high quality, objective and responsive national statistical service. Education statistics include onshore international students studying in Australia, but excludes offshore.

Australian Education International (AEI)

AEI releases monthly summaries that show year-to-date enrolments of international students in Australia on a student visa. Summaries include volume and growth rates for enrolments and commencements, as well as analysis by sector and ‘top 5’ source markets.

Market Information Package (MIP)

Austrade's Market Information Package (MIP) provides valuable and timely market intelligence, analysis and opportunities to support Australia’s international education and training sector. Enquiries about the MIP should be directed to mip@austrade.gov.au.

uCube – Higher education statistics

uCube is maintained by DIICCSRTE and is one of the best kept secrets in higher education statistics. It allows users to generate custom tables and export the data in Excel. Output is available for Enrolments (with commencements able to be separated out), Student load, Completions and Staff numbers. Under 'State - Institution', you can obtain data for individual institutions, including institutions you might see as competitors.

Global

UNESCO Institute for Statistics – Global Education Digest

Each year the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) publishes its Global Education Digest presenting the latest education statistics worldwide. The Digest offers particular value by presenting a wide range of education statistics – from early childhood learning programmes to adult literacy – and by highlighting a special theme, which is analysed based on indicators drawn from the statistical tables of the report. Free to download.

OECD – Education at a Glance

OECD's annual Education at a Glance looks at who participates in education, what is spent on it, how education systems operate and the results achieved. The latter includes indicators on a wide range of outcomes, from comparisons of students’ performance in key subject areas to the impact of education on earnings and on adults’ chances of employment. This book includes StatLinks, urls linking to Excel spreadsheets containing the background data. Free to download.

International Institute of Education (IIE) – Open Doors

Open Doors is a comprehensive, national data and information resource on US and international individuals studying or teaching in US and abroad. You can browse the data from the past decade of Open Doors by topic, using the expandable navigation menu in the box at the right of the page. Note: Some data is password protected and requires a subscription or IIE membership. Various reports are available for purchase.

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Higher Education World Reputation Rankings 2014

The Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings 2014 employ the world's largest invitation-only academic opinion survey to provide the definitive list of the top 100 most powerful global university brands. A spin-off of the annual Times Higher Education World University Rankings, the reputation league table is based on nothing more than subjective judgement - but it is the considered expert judgement of senior, published academics - the people best placed to know the most about excellence in our universities.
Note: Universities that display a blue icon feature an enhanced institutional profile, which can be viewed by clicking the institution's name.

World Reputation Rankings 2014

Rank	Institution	Location	Overall score
1	Harvard University	United States	100.0
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	90.4
3	Stanford University	United States	74.9
4	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	74.3
5	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	67.8
6	University of California, Berkeley	United States	63.1
7	Princeton University	United States	35.7
8	Yale University	United States	30.9
9	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States	29.2
10	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	28.8
11	The University of Tokyo	Japan	27.7
12	Columbia University	United States	21.6
13	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	20.9
14	University of Chicago	United States	20.8
15	University of Michigan	United States	18.9
16	ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich	Switzerland	17.4
17	Cornell University	United States	16.9
18	Johns Hopkins University	United States	16.8
19	Kyoto University	Japan	15.1
20	University of Toronto	Canada	14.9
21	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	13.5
22	University of Pennsylvania	United States	12.8
23	University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign	United States	12.7
24	London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	United Kingdom	11.8
25	University College London (UCL)	United Kingdom	11.5
26	Seoul National University	Republic of Korea	10.9
27	New York University (NYU)	United States	10.3
28	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	10.2
29	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	9.6
30	Duke University	United States	9.4
31	University of Washington	United States	9.0
32	University of California, San Francisco	United States	8.7
33	University of British Columbia	Canada	8.6
33	McGill University	Canada	8.6
33	University of Texas at Austin	United States	8.6
36	Tsinghua University	China	8.4
37	Northwestern University	United States	8.3
38	Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)	United States	7.6
39	Pennsylvania State University	United States	7.5
40	University of California, San Diego	United States	7.2
41	Peking University	China	7.0
42	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	6.3
43	The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	6.2
43	King's College London	United Kingdom	6.2
43	University of Melbourne	Australia	6.2
46	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	6.1
46	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany	6.1
48	Purdue University	United States	6.0
49	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	5.8
50	Osaka University	Japan	5.7

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World All University Rankings 2014-2015 analysis

The publication of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings has become one of the key annual events in the international higher education calendar and these global university league tables are recognised as the world's most authoritative source of broad comparative performance information on universities.
Below, Times Higher Education offers unparalleled analysis of the World University Rankings 2014-2015 results and contextualises those results in light of the rapidly globalising higher education sector.
Collaborate and listen
The World University Rankings are competitive, of course, but they also promote the partnerships vital to a vibrant global academy, says editor, Times Higher Education Rankings, Phil Baty
Tectonic shifts point to Asia taking on the mantle
The World University Rankings 2014-2015 continue the trends of US decline and Asian ascent, writes Phil Baty
Time will tell: bigger picture reveals underlying movement
A snapshot view of four years of change
BRICs, mortar boards and mixed fortunes
The large developing nations are making patchy progress in the rankings: will Putin’s ambitions be realised? Phil Baty reports
Averages, dispersion and global variation
How far have national systems gained or slipped since 2013-14? What are the vital statistics of the typical top 400 institution? Dominance of US institutions in the top 400 is evident, although numbers are falling, whereas other regions, particularly Asia-Pacific, are rising strongly
Berkeley’s forecast: sunshine after the storm
UC’s finest has emerged from the financial crisis stronger than ever, argues Nicholas B. Dirks, chancellor, University of California, Berkeley
Fusion reaction
Tsinghua revels in its structural role on the global stage: forging connections between East and West, writes its president Chen Jining
Hybrid vigour: the sum is greater than the parts
Competition and collaboration; home and abroad; public and private. Put them together and what have you got? The future, argues Alice Gast, president, Imperial College London
Broad range
At the heart of the Andes, one of Colombia’s top universities is striving for regional and global impact, explains Pablo Navas Sanz de Santamaría, rector, University of the Andes
Tapping new seams
As the state disinvests, Queensland is securing the future of its student experience and research by diversifying its income streams, writes its vice-chancellor Peter Høj
We’re taking a long, hard look at ourselves
Germany is on a mission to punch its weight in the rankings, says Hans Müller-Steinhagen, rector, Technische Universität Dresden
Drilling down into a rich landscape of data
Phil Baty explains how to use the league tables to extract information specific to your requirements
A very particular set of skills
Phil Baty discovers which institutions excel in which subject areas and finds that the US/UK domination continues
An assessment tool to be used with care
Rankings are widely used and critiqued, says Ellen Hazelkorn, but they create a profile institutions want

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Institute on Statistical Analysis: Causal Analysis Using International Data

AERA Institute on Statistical Analysis for Education Policy:
Causal Analysis Using International Data

Call for Applications

Dates of Institute: May 19 - 22, 2015

The application deadline for the 2015 AERA Institute on Statistical Analysis for Education Policy: Causal Analysis Using International Data is Tuesday, February 17, 2015.

With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Grants Program announces a special AERA Institute on Statistical Analysis for Education Policy focused on causal analysis using data from two international datasets, Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). The Institute’s goal is to build the capacity of the U.S. education research community to use large-scale national and international data sets such as those from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), NSF, and other federal agencies for basic, policy, and applied research. The 2015 Institute will be conducted jointly with an international of group scholars who are using these data sets.

Description
Causal inference has become a central issue in education research. This includes inferring causality from the design of true randomized experiments, as well as how such inference can be approached in quasi-experimental, non-randomized studies. The focus of the 2015 Institute will be on these issues and the methodologies available to support causal inferences using data from TIMSS and PISA. The Institute will cover several approaches and methodologies for estimating causal inferences using TIMSS and PISA. Such methodologies include propensity scores, path analysis, and structural equation models. During the Institute examples will be provided in addition to working sessions in which participants will gain experience with implementing selected methods with the international data.

Eligibility and Review Criteria
Advanced doctoral students and recent doctorates are especially encouraged to apply. Applicants must have completed at least one year of statistics courses at the doctoral level and have familiarity with multiple regression methods. Review criteria include: the applicant’s statistical background to at least the intermediate level of multiple regression, computer literacy with knowledge of at least one statistical software package; experience in using a large-scale data set; substantive policy or practice interest in international data; and the Institute’s fit with the applicant’s career goals. Applications from historically underrepresented minority scholars are also strongly encouraged. Applicants may be U.S. citizens, U.S. permanent residents, or non-U.S. citizens working or studying at a U.S. institution.

Participant Support
A select group of scholars will be chosen to participate in the Institute. Those selected for participation will receive support covering the Institute's fees, transportation, housing, and meals for the dates of the Institute. Participants must bring their own computer loaded with the statistical software of their choice.

Dates and Location

May 19-22, 2015, in Washington, DC

Institute Director
William Schmidt, Michigan State University

Application Requirements
All applications should include:

• Background Information, entered via the online submission tool, including contact information for three (3) references familiar with the applicant’s work. No letters of recommendation are required for this application, although references may be contacted during the review process.
  
• Statement of Interest in PDF (maximum two pages single-spaced), describing the applicant's background, career goals, and how the applicant would benefit from the Institute.
  
• Summarized Curriculum Vita in PDF (maximum one page), listing education, research, and employment history, relevant graduate courses, and publications that are relevant to the Institute.
  

Submit the Statement of Interest and the Summarized Curriculum Vita in one PDF document and upload to the submission system by the deadline.

Application Submission
The deadline for applications is 11:59 pm Pacific Time on Tuesday, February 17, 2015. Applications must be submitted electronically to AERA via the online submission tool. Incomplete submissions will not be considered. Applicants will be informed of decisions in March 2015. If you have any questions, please contact the AERA Grants Program at grantsprogram@aera.net or 202-238-3226.

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