NEWS

New Data Access Request form – applying for data easier than ever

Applications for administrative data for research just became much easier in British Columbia thanks to a collaborative effort  ... more

Few seats still available for summer workshops

There are still a few seats available for these summer workshops in Multilevel and Hierarchical Linear Modeling (July 5-9) and An Introduction to Bayesian Disease Mapping (July 29-30)  ... more

Admin Data 101 workshop now online!

This free workshop explains the basics of what administrative data are, where they come from, how they can be used for research, what the data produced for a research project actually look like and what skills are needed to work with them ... more

ARCHIVED NEWS

External resources - websites

Small Area Health Statistics Unit - The SAHSU websites provides information and resources on statistical methods used to assess the health risk of population exposure to environmental factors.

US National Cancer Institute GIS Training - Collection of links and resources for online GIS training focused on health and disease mapping.

University of Iowa - Overview of specific methods used in disease mapping including spatial filtering, interpolation and geocoding.

NCGIA - GIS curriciulum in GIScience outlined by the NCGIA, precursor to the Centre for Spatially Integrated Social Science.

AI-GEOSTATS - A general resource for geostatistics and spatial statistics and home of the active ai-geostats mailing list. A good overview of open source spatial statistics software.

Multilevel Modelling Portal - A large collection of links on multilevel modelling.

StatSoft - An established online textbook offers training in the understanding and application of statistics.

National Center for Health Statistics - Government agency responsible for providing information on the state of health in the US.

ESRI Forums - User forums hosted by ESRI.

City University London - Online programs in Geographic Information at City University London can lead to a postgraduate certificate, MSc or PhD.

North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR) - The NAACCR offers a variety of education and training opportunities including webinars and in-person workshops.