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LISA statistical collaborators can help design experiments, studies, and surveys; collect, analyze, and plot data; run statistical software; interpret results; and develop strategies to communicate statistical concepts and results to non-statisticians.

LISA is the University of Colorado Boulder’s Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis (LISA). LISA is a statistical collaboration laboratory with a goal to increase the quantity and quality of statistics and data science applied to advance high-impact research at CU Boulder and expert decision making in the community.

LISA’s mission is to:

  1. Train statisticians and data scientists to become interdisciplinary collaborators
  2. Provide research infrastructure to enable and accelerate quantitative research around the campus community
  3. Engage with the community to improve statistical skills and literacy.

LISA trains statisticians and data scientists to communicate and collaborate with researchers to solve research problems and work with businesses and government agencies to make data-driven decisions. LISA statistical collaborators can help design experiments, studies, and surveys; collect, analyze, and plot data; run statistical software; interpret results; and develop strategies to communicate statistical concepts and results to non-statisticians.

LISA serves as research infrastructure by collaborating with researchers on campus on big and small projects that lead to a variety of outcomes such as co-authored publications, grant proposals, internal reports, preliminary data for future projects, theses and dissertations, etc. Submit a collaboration request to meet with a LISA collaborator. LISA is receiving collaboration requests for the Spring 2025 semester. Collaborations are open to faculty, staff, students, and select community members.

Thanks to funding from CRDDS, LISA is continuing to co-host a research service called "Interdisciplinary Data Consulting Hours" with the Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship (CRDDS) on Tuesdays 12-1PM (Register) and Thursdays 1-2PM (Register) from January 14, 2025 to May 1, 2025.  All researchers seeking statistical support are encouraged to register.  If you are unable to attend our consultation hours and would like to set up a call, email crdds@colorado.edu.  Note: LISA assists with research, not class projects or homework.

LISA, via its partnership with CRDDS and Research Computing, taught the "Coding in R Workshop Series" to improve statistics and data science skills and increase statistical literacy generally. Recordings of past semester's short courses are linked from our Short Course page.

Review our policies and request a meeting with a LISA statistical collaborator.

LISA Posters of Sample Projects
 

PlayO2I – A better method for collecting data on children
Using permutation tests to find outliers in oscilloscope calibration readouts
LISA's research collaboration on Voles
Using spatial statistics to characterize the distribution of Osteocytes in Knee Bone
Colony habits of cliff swallows
Soil Classification via Random Forest
Understanding the African Diaspora: Modeling the Fall of the Oyo Empire
How does living in captivity affect the cranial morphology of Malagasy lemurs?
LISA helps CU researchers benefit from applying Statistics and Data Science