The mission of the Center of Applied Statistics is to look across the broad spectrum of statistical applications at UCLA, and leverage the knowledge gained through common approaches to data analysis problems.

The Center for Environmental Statistics (CES) analyzes and models data sets describing traffic counts, trip generation, urban economics, seismicity, water supply, water quality, weather, wildfires, and air quality of locations mostly in Southern California. The emphasis will be on studying spatial and temporal variation in the various indicators, and in impact studies of future developments.

The modern advent of enormous repositories of digital information presents us with interesting new challenges. How can we represent and interpret such complex data? What are the best algorithms and computing strategies to address important scientific and social questions?

Various large-scale biological data have become available in the past ten years: the entire genome sequences of many species, gene expression profiles and transcription factor binding data under numerous experimental conditions, genotypes in large numbers of polymorphic loci, etc.

This center develops statistical methods and computational algorithms to analyze these massive biological datasets and extract valuable information to enhance our understanding of the science.

The Center for VCLA starts from Computer Vision and expands to other disciplines.

Our projects span four directions:

Vision: object, scene, events, inference strategies, and sensor control;
Cognition: intentions, roles, goals, causality, affordance and persuasion;
Learning: information projection, stochastic grammars, and goal guided learning;
Art: abstraction, expression, aesthetics, freedom, and perceptual entropy.
Our objective is to pursue a unified framework for representation, learning, inference and reasoning, and to build intelligent computer systems for real world applications.

The Center for the Teaching of Statistics seeks to provide a model for Statistics education in the Southern California region by integrating research in Statistics and Pedagogy with technological innovations. We intend to serve as a resource for not just UCLA but the Southern California statistics community and, to the extent possible, to the Statistics community in general. We have formed some collaborative partnerships with AP Statistics educators, and plan to form future partnerships with educators in K-12, community colleges, and local colleges and universities. We will grow as resources and interest permits, but are already engaged in a number of activities concerning introductory Statistics teaching, AP Statistics, and technology in the classroom.

The Statistical Consulting Center of the UCLA Department of Statistics has the dual purpose of: 1) training graduate students in consulting work and real-life data analysis; and 2) providing free statistical consulting and data analysis services to the Campus and the Community.

In addition we offer electronic consulting, and a large number of mini-courses in various topics in statistics and statistical software.