Themes

Data Integration [16]

Data Visualization [15]

Geography [11, 23, 25]

Information Privacy [1, 24]

Measurement of Income & Poverty [10, 17, 21]

Measurement of Race & Ethnicity [13, 14, 20, 26]

Paradata [18]

Randomized Trial Designs [28]

Ranking & Sampling [6]

Small Area Estimation [27]

Statistical Methodology [5]

Survey Sampling & Estimation [2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 12, 19]

Time Series [3, 22]

May

[1] Paul Ohm / University of Colorado Law School; Federal Trade Commission (May 30, 2013)
“How Law and Policy Have Responded (and Should Yet Respond) to the Failure of Anonymization”
Hosts: Office of the Director (Hogan, Jones); Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Wright); Center for Disclosure Avoidance Research (Zayatz)

June

[2] Rebecca Steorts / Carnegie Mellon University (June 3-7, 2013)
“Will the Real Steve Fienberg Please Stand Up: Getting to Know a Population From Multiple Incomplete Files”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Wieczorek, Maples, Datta); Center for Administrative Records Research and Applications (O'Hara)

[3] Xiaofeng Shao / University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (June 10-14, 2013)
“Self-normalization”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (McElroy, Monsell, Findley)

[4] Barry Graubard / National Cancer Institute (June 13, 2013)
“Conditional Logistic Regression with Survey Data”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Slud)

[5] Andrew Gelman / Columbia University (June 13-14, 2013)
“Choices in Statistical Graphics: My Stories”
“Weakly Informative Priors”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Wright); Research and Methodology Directorate (Louis)

[6] Omer Ozturk / The Ohio State University (June 18-19, 2013)
“Estimation of Population Mean and Total in a Finite Population Setting Using Multiple Auxiliary Variables”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Wright, Klein)

[7] Zhiqiang Tan / Rutgers University (June 20-21, 2013)
“Improved Shrinkage Estimation with Applications”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Slud, Tokle, Janicki)

[8] Glen Meeden / University of Minnesota (June 24-28, 2013)
“Objective Stepwise Bayes Weights in Survey Sampling”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Erdman, Slud)

July

[9] Phillip S. Kott / RTI International (July 8-10, 2013)
“Calibration Weighting When Nonresponse May Be a Function of Survey Variables”
Hosts: Governments Division (Tran, Nguyen, Dumbacher); Demographic Statistical Methods Division (Ash, Cheng)

[10] James P. Ziliak / University of Kentucky (July 8-12, 2013)
“Multigenerational Families and Food Insecurity”
Hosts: Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division (Hokayem)

[11] Samantha Cockings / University of Southampton (July 15-17, 2013)
“Creating and Maintaining Statistical Geographies Using Automated Zone Design Techniques”
Hosts: Geography Division (Ratcliffe, Osier, Hawley)

[12] Yan Lu / University of New Mexico (July 15-19, 2013)
“Regression Estimation in Dual Frame Surveys”
Hosts: Demographic Statistical Methods Division (Cheng); Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Slud)

[13] John Iceland / Pennsylvania State University (July 17-19, 2013)
“White Residential Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: Conceptual Issues, Patterns, and Trends from the U.S. Census, 1980 to 2010”
Hosts: Center for Administrative Records Research & Applications (Rastogi); Population Division (Jones); Decennial Statistical Studies Division (Hill)

[14] Carolyn Liebler / University of Minnesota (July 22-26, 2013)
“American Indians without Tribes in the 21st Century”
Hosts: Center for Administrative Records Research & Applications (Rastogi); Population Division (Jones); Decennial Statistical Studies Division (Hill)

[15] Nathan Yau / FlowingData.com (July 22-26, 2013)
“Visualizing Data for an Audience”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Wright, Klein)

[16] Margaret Levenstein and Matthew Shapiro / University of Michigan (July 25, 2013)
“CenHRS: Integrating HRS with Census Employer Data to Enhance Understanding of the Employment Prospects of Older Americans”
Hosts: Center for Economic Studies (McCue, Jarmin)

[17] Gordon B. Dahl / University of California, San Diego (July 29-31, 2013)
“Family Welfare Cultures”
Hosts: Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division (Wignall, Gathright, Stinson)

[18] Frauke Kreuter / University of Maryland, College Park (July 30-August 1, 2013)
“Experiments Testing the Use of Paradata in Official Statistics Production”
Hosts: Governments Division (Williams, Craig, Tran)

August

[19] Sanjay Chaudhuri / National University of Singapore (August 1-2, 2013)
“A Conditional Empirical Likelihood Approach to Combine Sampling Design and Population Level Information”
Hosts: Research and Methodology Directorate (Bell); Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Wright)

[20] Ann Morning / New York University (August 5-7, 2013)
“Racial and Ethnic Classification in Global Perspective: Understanding the Sociology of Racial Conceptualization for the 21st Century Around the World”
Hosts: Population Division (Jones, Ramirez); Center for Administrative Records Research & Applications (Rastogi); Decennial Statistical Studies Division (Hill)

[21] Barry Hirsch / Georgia State University (August 12-16, 2013)
“The Implications of Non-response in Census Surveys: Evidence from the CPS and ACS”
Hosts: Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division (Hokayem)

[22] Marc Wildi / Zurich University of Applied Sciences (August 12-15, 2013)
“An Introduction to the Direct Filter Approach and Current Research”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Blakely, McElroy)

[23] Claire A. Jantz / Shippensburg University (August 12-16, 2013)
“Estimating the Completeness of TIGER Road Data Using the SLEUTH Urban Growth Forecasting Model”
Hosts: Geography Division (Erickson, Ratcliffe)

[24] Ashwin Machanavajjhala / Duke University (August 15, 2013)
“Tuning Privacy-Utility Tradeoffs in Statistical Databases Using Policies”
Hosts: Center for Economic Studies (McEntarfer, Abowd, Graham, Kutzbach)

[25] Amy Griffin / University of New South Wales, Canberra (August 16 & 19-21, 2013)
“A Context-of-use Study to Inform the Design and Testing of Visualizations of Uncertainty for Supporting Planners Using ACS Estimates”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Wieczorek); Geography Division (Ratcliffe, Beard); Communications Directorate (Newburger)

[26] Aliya Saperstein / Stanford University (August 19-21, 2013)
“The Past and Present Significance of Racial Mobility: Revisiting Homer Plessy and the Mulatto Escape Hatch”
Hosts: Population Division (Jones, Ramirez); Center for Administrative Records Research & Applications (Rastogi); Decennial Statistical Studies Division (Hill)

[27] Vivekananda Roy / Iowa State University (August 20-21, 2013)
“Monte Carlo Methods for Improper Target Distributions”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Janicki); Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division (Luery)

September

[28] Daniel Almirall / University of Michigan (September 24-25, 2013)
“Workshop on Adaptive Treatment Strategies and Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (SMART) Designs”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Schafer, Galagate); Center for Survey Measurement (Miller)