^{Authors with their name linked have a Researcher Profile available on the Census Bureau website. Census Bureau staff participation in the 2018 JSM.}

Developments in Bayesian Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Small Area Health Data

Sunday, July 29, 2018, 4:00 p.m. - 5:50 p.m.

4:05 p.m. Spatio-Temporal Models for Big Multinomial Data Using the Conditional Multivariate Logit-Beta Distribution

Scott H. Holan, University of Missouri/U.S. Census Bureau
Jonathan R. Bradley, Florida State University
Christopher K. Wikle, University of Missouri

Categorical Data

Sunday, July 29, 2018, 2:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.

2:35 p.m. A Conway-Maxwell-Multinomial Distribution for Flexible Modeling of Categorical Data

Darcy Steeg Morris, U.S. Census
Kimberly F Sellers, Georgetown University
Andrew Raim, U.S. Census

Nonlinearites and Information

Sunday, July 29, 2018, 4:00 p.m. - 5:50 p.m.

5:35 p.m. Examining the Performance of Seasonality Diagnostics for Detecting Residual Seasonality

Osbert Pang, U.S. Census Bureau
Brian Monsell, U.S. Census Bureau
William Bell, U.S. Census Bureau

Prospects for Combining Survey and Administrative Data for Income Measurement

Thursday, August 2, 2018, 8:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.

Chair: Quentin Brummet

8:55 a.m. Linking Survey and Administrative Data to Measure Family and Household Income, Inequality and Mobility

Derek Wu, University of Chicago
Bruce D. Meyer, University of Chicago
Carla Medalia, U.S. Census Bureau

9:35 a.m. Prospects for Combining Survey and Administrative Data for Income Measurement

Trudi Jane Renwick, U.S. Census Bureau
Liana Fox, U.S. Census Bureau
Ashley Edwards, U.S. Census Bureau
Jonathan Rothbaum, U.S. Census Bureau

Recent Advances in Modeling Complex Dependent Data

Wednesday, August 1, 2018, 10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.

Organizer and Chair: Scott H. Holan, University of Missouri/U.S. Census Bureau

11:35 a.m. Hierarchical Models with Conditionally Conjugate Full-Conditional Distributions for Dependent Data from the Natural Exponential Family

Jonathan R Bradley, Florida State University
Scott H. Holan, University of Missouri/U.S. Census Bureau
Christopher K. Wikle, University of Missouri

SPEED: Statistics and Econometrics

Sunday, July 29, 2018, 2:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.  

2:20 p.m. Benchmarking Monthly Seasonally Adjusted Series to Quarterly Adjustments

Brian Monsell, U.S. Census Bureau
Tucker S McElroy, U.S. Census Bureau

SPEED: Statistics and Econometrics (Poster Session)

Sunday, July 29, 2018, 5:05 p.m. - 5:50 p.m.

24. Benchmarking Monthly Seasonally Adjusted Series to Quarterly Adjustments

Brian Monsell, U.S. Census Bureau
Tucker S McElroy, U.S. Census Bureau

Contributed Poster Presentations: Government Statistics Section

Tuesday, July 31, 2018, 2:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.

54. How Do We Choose Addresses to Receive a Choice in Response Mode in the First Mailing of the American Community Survey?

Lindsay Longsine, U.S. Census Bureau
Michael Risley, U.S. Census Bureau

Government Statistics Section P.M. Roundtable Discussion

Monday, July 30, 2018, 12:30 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.

ML15: What If We Get a Break in Series? Risk Management in the Integration of Multiple Data Sources

John L. Eltinge, U.S. Census Bureau

Educating the Government Workforce to Lead with Statistics

Thursday, August 2, 2018, 8:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.

8:35 a.m. Educating the Government Workforce to Lead with Statistics

Panelist: Katherine J Thompson, U.S. Census Bureau

Federal Statistics, Multiple Data Sources, and Privacy Protection

Wednesday, August 1, 2018, 2:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.  

Chair: Gina Walejko, U.S. Census Bureau

Implementing Research-Based Recommendations in Ongoing Programs

Monday, July 30, 2018, 10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.

Organizer: Katherine J Thompson, U.S. Census Bureau

Chair: Brian Monsell, U.S. Census Bureau

10:35 a.m. Challenges in Implementing a New Imputation Method into Production in the 2017 Economic Census or What to Do When the Research Approach Oversimplifies the Problem

Katherine J Thompson, U.S. Census Bureau
William Davie Jr., U.S. Census Bureau
Matthew Thompson, U.S. Census Bureau
Scot Dahl, U.S. Census Bureau

10:55 a.m. Variance Estimation for Product Sales in the 2017 Economic Census: Utilizing Multiple Imputation to Account for Sampling and Imputation Variance

Matthew Thompson, U.S. Census Bureau
Katherine J Thompson, U.S. Census Bureau

11:15 a.m. Statistically Integrated Publication System for the Economic Census Synthetic Microdata

Hang Joon Kim, University of Cincinnati
Katherine J Thompson, U.S. Census Bureau

Paradata for Adaptive Survey Designs and Other Applications

Sunday, July 29, 2018, 4:00 p.m. - 5:50 p.m.

Chair: Darcy Steeg Morris, U.S. Census Bureau

4:05 p.m. A Non-Response and Measurement Error Analysis for the National Survey of College Graduates

Kayla Varela, U.S. Census Bureau
Allison Zotti, U.S. Census Bureau
Kevin Tolliver, U.S. Census Bureau
Amanda Nagle, U.S. Census Bureau

Power of Adaptive Design in Controlling Survey Errors and Costs

Tuesday, July 31, 2018, 10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. 

Organizer and Chair: Asaph Young Chun, U.S. Census Bureau

11:15 a.m. A Distance Method for Administrative Record Modeling in the 2020 Census

Vincent Mule, U.S. Census Bureau
Andrew Keller, U.S. Census Bureau
Scott Konicki, U.S. Census Bureau
Darcy Steeg Morris, U.S. Census Bureau

Redesigning Federal Surveys

Tuesday, July 31, 2018, 2:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. 

2:05 p.m. Calling All Stakeholders: Developing a Demographic Statistical Redesign Research Agenda

Richard Levy, U.S. Census Bureau
Jimmie B Scott, U.S. Census Bureau

2:20 p.m. An Overview of 2020 Census Design

Robin A Pennington, U.S. Census Bureau
Gina Walejko, U.S. Census Bureau

2:35 p.m. A Statistical Comparison of Call Volume Uniformity Due to Mailing Strategy

Andrew Raim, U.S. Census Bureau
Elizabeth Nichols, U.S. Census Bureau
Thomas Mathew, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Synthetic Data and Data Disclosure

Wednesday, August 1, 2018, 2:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. 

Chair: Amanda Nagle, U.S. Census Bureau

2:20 p.m. Finite Sample Inference for Multiply Imputed Synthetic Data Under a Multiple Linear Regression Model

Martin Klein, U.S. Census Bureau

2:50 p.m. A Top-Down Algorithm for Releasing Differentially Private Hierarchical Multi-Dimensional Contingency Tables with Exact Constraints

Robert Ashmead, U.S. Census Bureau
John M Abowd, U.S. Census Bureau
Simson Garfinkel, U.S. Census Bureau
Michael Hay, Colgate University
Dan Kifer, Penn State University
Philip Leclerc, U.S. Census Bureau
Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Duke University
Ryan McKenna, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Gerome Miklau, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Brett Moran, U.S. Census Bureau
William Sexton, U.S. Census Bureau

3:20 p.m. Preserving Privacy in Person-Level Data for the American Community Survey

Michael H. Freiman, U.S. Census Bureau
Rolando A. Rodríguez, U.S. Census Bureau
Jerome P. Reiter, Duke University
Amy D. Lauger, U.S. Census Bureau

The Potential for Web-Scraping in the Production of Official Statistics: An Opportunity for Statistics to Lead?

Wednesday, August 1, 2018, 10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.

10:35 a.m. Modernizing Census Bureau Economic Statistics Through Web Scraping

Brian Dumbacher, U.S. Census Bureau
Carma Ray Hogue, U.S. Census Bureau

Time Series Data, Trend Analysis, and Repeated Measures

Monday, July 30, 2018, 8:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.

9:05 a.m. Demographic Turning Points for the United States: Population Projections 2020 to 2060

Jonathan Vespa, U.S. Census Bureau

Transparency, Reproducibility and Replicability in Work with Social and Economic Data

Sunday, July 29, 2018, 2:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. 

2:55 p.m. Enhancement of Transparency, Reproducibility, and Replicability in the Integration of Multiple Data Sources

John L. Eltinge, U.S. Census Bureau

From Survival Analysis to Survey Research

Tuesday, July 31, 2018, 2:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.

3:20 p.m. What's Missing? Analysis of NCVS Missed Crimes Results 2012 to 2017

Alan Peterson, U.S. Census Bureau

3:35 p.m. Analysis of Influences Related to Interviewer Non-Compliance with Established Procedures for SIPP

Danquan Prunty, U.S. Census Bureau
Alpha Savage, US Census Bureau

Hypothesis Testing: Bayesian, Nonparametric and Likelihood Methods

Sunday, July 29, 2018, 4:00 p.m. - 5:50 p.m.

5:35 p.m.A Pooling Strategy to Effectively Use Genotype Data in Quantitative Traits Genome-Wide Association Studies

Wei Zhang, BBB/DIPHR/NICHD
Aiyi Liu, BBB/DIPHR/NICHD
Paul S Albert, National Cancer Institute
Robert D Ashmead, U.S. Census Bureau
Enrique F Schisterman, BBB/DIPHR/NICHD
James L Mills, BBB/DIPHR/NICHD

Highlights from the Journal Stat

Sunday, July 29, 2018, 4:00 p.m. - 5:50 p.m.

4:05 p.m. Adaptively-Tuned Particle Swarm Optimization with Application to Spatial Design

Matthew Simpson, University of Missouri
Christopher K. Wikle, University of Missouri
Scott H. Holan, University of Missouri/U.S. Census Bureau

Modeling, Analysis, and Assessment

Wednesday, August 1, 2018, 8:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.

9:20 a.m. Looking Inward: Quality Audits for Demographic Programs at the U.S. Census Bureau

Cynthia A Rothhaas, U.S. Census Bureau
Richard Levy, U.S. Census Bureau

Upcoming Changes to the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement

Monday, July 31, 2018, 10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. 

Organizer: Trudi Jane Renwick, U.S. Census Bureau

Chair: David G. Waddington, U.S. Census Bureau

10:35 a.m. Processing Changes to the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement

Jonathan Rothbaum, U.S. Census Bureau

11:00 a.m. Challenges in Measuring Health Insurance Coverage

Jennifer Cheeseman Day, U.S. Census Bureau
Marina Vornovitsky, U.S. Census Bureau

11:25 a.m. Evaluating the Revised Relationship Question

Jennifer M Ortman, U.S. Census Bureau
Jonathan Vespa, U.S. Census Bureau
Rose Kreider, U.S. Census Bureau

11:50 a.m. All Our Kin? Measuring Poverty Using Alternative Family Configurations

Trudi Jane Renwick, U.S. Census Bureau
Laryssa Mykyta, University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley
Ashley Edwards, U.S. Census Bureau

Visualization and Reproducibility - Challenges and Best Practices

Monday, July 30, 2018, 8:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. 

Chair: John Eltinge, U.S. Census Bureau

Administrative Records for Survey Methodology and Evidence Building

Monday, July 30, 2018, 10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.

Organizer: Asaph Young Chun, U.S. Census Bureau

10:35 a.m. Administrative Records for Survey Methodology and Evidence Building

Panelist: Asaph Young Chun, U.S. Census Bureau

Advances in Small Area Estimation

Wednesday, August 1, 2018, 2:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.

2:20 p.m. Small Area Population Models: Estimating the Number of Children in School Districts

Jerry Maples, U.S. Census Bureau
Patrick Joyce, U.S. Census Bureau

Imputation and Analysis of Missing Survey Data

Thursday, August 2, 2018, 10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.

2:20 p.m. Simplifying the Noninterview Adjustment Used in Weighting the American Community Survey Housing Unit Sample

Evan B. Gutentag, U.S. Census Bureau
Edward C. Castro Jr., U.S. Census Bureau
Mark E. Asiala, U.S. Census Bureau

Issues in Survey Design and Estimation

Tuesday, July 31, 2018, 10:30 p.m. - 12:20 p.m.

Chair: Richard Levy, U.S. Census Bureau

10:50 a.m.A Comparison of Clustering Algorithms Used for Multivariate Stratification of Primary Sampling Units

Thomas Chesnut, U.S. Census Bureau
Padraic Murphy, U.S. Census Bureau

11:20 a.m.Efficiency Comparisons of Selective Editing Methods

Chin-Fang Weng, U.S. Census Bureau
Joanna Fane Lineback, U.S. Census Bureau

Recent Research on Current Population Survey

Sunday, July 29, 2018, 2:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.

Organizer: Yang Cheng, U.S. Census Bureau

Chair: Stephen Ash, U.S. Census Bureau

2:05 p.m.Optimal AK Composite Estimators in Current Population Survey

Yang Cheng, U.S. Census Bureau
Jun Shao, University of Wisconsin
Yu Zhou, East China Normal University

2:25 p.m.Understanding Variance Estimator Bias in Stratified Two-Stage Sampling

Khoa Dong, U.S. Census Bureau
Timothy Trudell, U.S. Census Bureau
Yang Cheng, U.S. Census Bureau
Eric Slud, U.S. Census Bureau

2:45 p.m.Computing Replicated Variance for Stratified Systematic Sampling

Timothy Trudell, U.S. Census Bureau
Khoa Dong, U.S. Census Bureau
Yang Cheng, U.S. Census Bureau
Eric Slud, U.S. Census Bureau

Replicate Weights and Variance Estimation

Monday, July 30, 2018, 2:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. 

2:35 p.m. Jackknife and Other Replication Methods with a Reduced Number of Replicates

Stephen Ash, U.S. Census Bureau

SPEED: Missing Survey Data: Analysis, Imputation, Design, and Prevention

Monday, July 30, 2018, 2:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.

2:10 p.m. Census Efforts to Reduce the Undercount of Young Children

Gina Walejko, U.S. Census Bureau
Scott Konicki, U.S. Census Bureau

2:40 p.m.Exploring Reminder Calls Intended to Increase Interviewer Compliance with Data Collection Protocols

Amanda Nagle, U.S. Census Bureau
Kevin Tolliver, U.S. Census Bureau

Statistical Explorations for the Post-Enumeration Survey of the U.S. 2020 Census

Wednesday, August 1, 2018, 2:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.

Organizer: Timothy Kennel, U.S. Census Bureau

Chair: Vincent Mule, U.S. Census Bureau

2:05 p.m.Evolution of the Modern Post-Enumeration Survey: How Did We Get Here and Where Should We Go Next?

Howard Hogan, U.S. Census Bureau

2:25 p.m.Considerations in Designing the 2020 Post-Enumeration Survey Sample

Laura A. Davis, U.S. Census Bureau
T. Trang Nguyen, U.S. Census Bureau
Courtney Hill, U.S. Census Bureau

2:45 p.m.Creating a Hard-To-Enumerate Score to Stratify the 2020 Post-Enumeration Survey Sample

Krista Heim, U.S. Census Bureau
Courtney Hill, U.S. Census Bureau
T. Trang Nguyen, U.S. Census Bureau
Timothy Kennel, U.S. Census Bureau

3:05 p.m.Using Imputation Methods to Predict Independent Listing Housing Unit Counts for Small Geographies

Courtney Hill, U.S. Census Bureau
Timothy Kennel, U.S. Census Bureau
T. Trang Nguyen, U.S. Census Bureau

3:25 p.m.Calibrating Components of Coverage from a Post-Enumeration Survey

Timothy Kennel, U.S. Census Bureau

The Use of Auxiliary Data in Frame Development, Coverage Assessment, and Field Data Collection

Thursday, August 2, 2018, 8:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.

8:35 a.m. Relationship Between Positive Responses to Child-Specific Probes on the 2010 Census Questionnaire and 2010 Census Coverage Measurement Nonmatching Young Children

Mary Mulry, U.S. Census Bureau

10:05 a.m. A Simulation-Based Approach to Refining Estimates of Sampling Variability for the Planning Database's Low Response Score

Luke J. Larsen, U.S. Census Bureau

Current Federal Research on Improving Measurement of LGBT Populations

Thursday, August 2, 2018, 10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.

10:35 a.m. Assessing the Feasibility of Asking Questions on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity on the Current Population Survey (CPS)

Renee Ellis, U.S. Census Bureau
Jessica Holzberg, U.S. Census Bureau
Matthew Virgil, U.S. Census Bureau
Jennifer Edgar, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Polly Phipps, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Deming Lecture

Tuesday, July 31, 2018, 4:00 p.m. - 5:50 p.m.

4:05 p.m. Improving the Quality and Value of Statistical Information: Fourteen Questions on Management

John L. Eltinge, U.S. Census Bureau

Statistical Partnerships in Excellence: Featuring SPAIG Award Winning Collaborations

Thursday, August 2, 2018, 8:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.

9:25 a.m. Soft Skills for Effective Collaborations and Communications

Nancy A. Bates, U.S. Census Bureau