Themes

Data Integration [27]

Geography [23]

Migration [9, 13, 19]

Missing Data [11]

Measurement of Income and Poverty [5, 18, 21, 22, 28]

Measurement of Race and Ethnicity [4, 17]

Ranking Methods [16]

Seasonal Adjustment [31]

Scientific / Statistical Computing [2, 8]

Small Area Estimation [1, 3, 24, 26]

Statistical Methodology [7, 15]

Stochastic Analysis [30]

Survey Methodology [6, 10, 12, 20, 25, 29]

Sampling and Estimation [14]

April

[1] Avinash C. Singh / National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago (April 9-10, 2014)
“A Bayesian-Frequentist Integrated Approach to Small Area Estimation”
“Aggregate Level PUF with High Data Confidentiality and Utility”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Maples), Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division (Luery)

May

[2] Jian-Guo Liu / Duke University (May 12-16, 2014)
“Wealth Distribution in a Heterogeneous Environment”
Hosts: Demographic Statistical Methods Division (Cheng), Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Slud), Office of Statistical Methods and Research for Economic Programs (Liu)

[3] Brunero Liseo / University of Rome, La Sapienza (May 28, 2014)
“Hierarchical Bayesian Record Linkage and Inference with Linked Data: Problems and Some Solutions”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Datta, Franco), Research and Methodology Directorate (Bell)

June

[4] Julie A. Dowling / University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (June 4-6, 2014)
“Mexican Americans and the Question of Race”
Hosts: Population Division (Jones, Hixson, Johnson, Ramirez), Demographic Statistical Methods Division (Hill), Center for Administrative Records Research and Applications (Rastogi)

[5] Kristin Smith / University of New Hampshire (June 9-13, 2014)
“Using SIPP to Understand Changes in Child Care During Times of Family and Economic Instability”
Hosts: Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division (Laughlin, Kreider)

[6] Barry Schouten / Statistics Netherlands and Utrecht University (June 12-13, 2014)
“Adaptive Mixed-mode Survey Designs”
Hosts: Office of Statistical Methods and Research for Economic Programs (Lineback)

[7] Donald Rubin / Harvard University (June 16-17, 2014)
“Essential Concepts for Causal Inference in Randomized Experiments and Observational Studies”
“On the Calibrated Bayesian in Design and Analysis”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Wright)

[8] John W. Emerson / Yale University (June 16-20, 2014)
“Scalable Strategies for Computing with Massive Data”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Erdman)

[9] Jennifer Van Hook / Pennsylvania State University (June 23-25, 2014)
“Can We Spin Straw into Gold? An Evaluation of Legal Status Imputation Approaches”
Hosts: Population Division (Scopilliti, Grieco, Ortman)

[10] Charles Manski / Northwestern University (June 25, 2014)
“Communicating Uncertainty in Official Economic Statistics”
Hosts: Center for Economic Studies (White), Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Wright)

July

[11] Trivellore Raghunathan / University of Michigan (July 15-18, 2014)
“Combining Information from Multiple Sources for Medical Expenditure Modeling”
Hosts: Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division (Hokayem, Rothbaum)

[12] Mick Couper / University of Michigan (July 16-18, 2014)
“Big Data: A Survey Researcher's Perspective”
Hosts: Economic Directorate (Willimack, Riemer)

[13] Monica Boyd / University of Toronto (July 16-18, 2014)
“Making Sense of Canada's Voluntary Census: What Happened and What It Means”
Hosts: Population Division (Grieco, Devine, Velkoff)

[14] Bikas Sinha / Indian Statistical Institute, IUPUI-Indianapolis (July 23-25, 2014)
“Apportionment Index: Measure of Agreement in Forestry Research”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Wright), Center for Disclosure Avoidance Research (Sinha)

[15] Jianhua Huang / Texas A&M University (July 23-29, 2014)
“Some Examples of Regularized Matrix Decomposition”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (McElroy, Pang)

[16] Philip L.H. Yu / The University of Hong Kong (July 28-31, 2014)
“Analyzing and Modeling of Ranking Data”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Klein, Mathew), Center for Disclosure Avoidance Research (Sinha)

[17] Carolyn Liebler / University of Minnesota (July 28-August 1, 2014)
“Race and Hispanic Origin Response Dynamics between Census 2000 and the 2010 Census”
Hosts: Center for Administrative Records Research and Applications (Rastogi), Population Division (Jones)

August

[18] Jesse Rothstein / University of California, Berkeley (August 4-6, 2014)
“Scraping By: Income and Program Participation After the Loss of Extended Unemployment Benefits”
Hosts: SEHSD (Ewert, Bauman)

[19] Sookhee Oh / University of Missouri-Kansas City (August 4-7, 2014)
“Generation and Socioeconomic Attainment among Hispanic and Asian Immigrant Groups: the Comparison of CPS and ACS”
Hosts: SEHSD (Kim)

[20] James Wagner / University of Michigan (August 11-14, 2014)
“Examining the Impact of Nonresponse on Estimates from the 2006-2010 Continuous NSFG”
Hosts: OSMREP (Thompson)

[21] Perry Singleton / Syracuse University (August 11-15, 2014)
“Health Information and the Timing of Social Security Entitlements”
Hosts: SEHSD (Kim, O'Hara)

[22] James Foster / George Washington University (August 11-15, 2014)
“Counting and Multidimensional Poverty Measurement”
Hosts: SEHSD (Rothbaum)

[23] John A. Harrington, Jr. / Kansas State University (August 18-20, 2014)
“Spaces Between Places: Understanding the Changing Character of the High Plains of Western Kansas”
Hosts: GEO (Ratcliffe, Henrie, Hawley)

[24] Partha Lahiri / University of Maryland, College Park (August 18-22)
“The Role of Adjusted Residual Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Small Area Estimation”
Hosts: GOVS (Tran, Nguyen)

[25] Peter Lundquist / Statistics Sweden (August 19-21, 2014)
“Balanced Response Set: Some Theoretical Findings and Applications”
Hosts: OSMREP (Thompson, Oliver)

[26] Jiming Jiang / University of California, Davis (August 25-27)
“Several Extensions of the Observed Best Prediction”
Hosts: GOVS (Tran, Nguyen)

[27] Joseph Ferrie / Northwestern University (August 25-27)
“Linked Census Data for the Analysis of Later-Life Effects of Early-Life Exposure to Environmental Hazards: The Case of Lead”
Hosts: CES (Alexander); CARRA (O'Hara, Massey)

[28] Natasha Pilkauskas / Columbia University (August 25-27)
“The Value of Support: Private Safety Nets among Families with Young Children”
Hosts: SEHSD (Mykyta, Laughlin); CARRA (Jones)

September

[29] Ger Snijkers / Statistics Netherlands (September 8-10)
“A Systematic Methodology Aimed at Increasing Response for Business Surveys”
Hosts: ADEP (Willimack, Tuttle)

[30] Zhen-Qing Chen / University of Washington (September 8-12)
“Scaling Limits of Interacting Diffusions in Domains”
Hosts: DSMD (Cheng); CSRM (Tokle); CSM (Wang)

[31] Agustin Maravall / Bank of Spain (September 22-26)
“Automatic Model-Based Seasonal Adjustment at Work”
Hosts: CSRM (Monsell, McElroy); OSMREP (McDonald-Johnson)