Themes

Small Area Estimation [1, 8]

Measurement of Language Use [2]

Migration [3, 16]

Data Integration [4]

Usability Testing and Measurement [5]

Ranking and Sampling [7]

Sampling and Estimation [9, 11, 12, 28]

Measurement of Race & Ethnicity [10, 18, 27]

Spatial Data [13, 14, 15]

Missing Data [17]

Measurement of Unemployment [19]

Statistical Computing [20]

Geography [21]

Econometrics [22]

Time Series [23]

Survey Methodology [24]

Measurement of Income and Poverty [6, 25]

Firm Dynamics [26]

Measurement of Inequality [29, 30]

May

[1] Huilin Li / New York University (May 18-21)
“An Adjusted Maximum Likelihood Method for Solving Small Area Estimation Problems”
Hosts: Economic Statistical Methods Division (Tran)

June

[2] Hiromi Ishizawa / George Washington University (June 1-4)
“Dynamics of Spanish-Language Neighborhoods in Chicago and Atlanta: 1990-2000”
Hosts: Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Divison (Vickstrom, Bauman, Ewert)

[3] Matthew Hall / Cornell University (June 8-11)
“Racial Separation at Home and Work: Exploring Patterns of and Trends in Segregation in Residential and Workplace Contexts”
Hosts: Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division (Mateyka)

[4] Ian Schmutte / University of Georgia (June 8-12)
“Estimating Compensating Wage Differentials with Endogenous Job Mobility”
Hosts: Center for Economic Studies (Hyatt)

[5] James R. Lewis / IBM Corporation (June 9-10)
“How to Develop a Standardized Satisfaction Questionnaire”
“Survey of Questionnaires Developed to Assess Satisfaction with Computers and Web Applications”
Hosts: Center for Survey Measurement (Wang)

[6] Amanda Kowalski / Yale University (June 9)
“Medicaid as an Investment in Children: What is the Long-Term impact on Tax Receipts?”
Hosts: Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division (Abramowitz)

[7] Omer Ozturk / The Ohio State University (June 15-16)
“Estimation of Mean and Total of a Finite Population Using Inclusion Probabilities Given the Population Ranks”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Wright, Klein, Ashmead)

[8] Dongchu Sun / University of Missouri-Columbia (June 15-19)
“Hierarchical Models for Small Area Estimation with Applications in Sampling Survey”
“Bayesian Analysis of Multivariate Correlated Curves”
Hosts: Demographic Statistical Methods (Cheng)

[9] Jae Kwang Kim / Iowa State University(June 23-30)
“Fractional Hot Deck Imputation for Multivariate Missing Data”
“Improving State-Level Estimation Using Area Level Models Incorporating Several Sources of Information”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Wright)

[10] Jorge Duany / Florida International University (June 29-July 1)
“Racial Identity in the Hispanic Carribean and the United States”
Hosts: Population Division (Rios, Romero, Jones, Shin)

July

[11] Bikas Sinha / Indian Statistical Institute (July 6-8)
“Eliciting Information on Sensitive Features: Block Total Response Technique and Related Inference”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Wright)

[12] Eitan Greeshtein / Central Bureau of Statistics - Israel (July 13-15)
“Deconvolution, Empirical Bayes, and Treatment of Non-response”(Parts I & II)
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Wright)

[13] Soumendra Lahiri / North Carolina State University (July 20-24)
“Spatial Statistics, Empirical Likelihood and Survey Data”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (McElroy, Livsey, Joyce)

[14] Dan Nordman / Iowa State University (July 20-24)
“An Empirical Likelihood Method for Geo-referenced Spatial Data”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (McElroy, Livsey, Joyce)

[15] Soutir Bandyopadhyay / Lehigh University (July 20-24)
“Wendland Meets Markov: Kriging for LARGE Spatial Data”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (McElroy, Livsey, Joyce)

[16] Shigehiro Oishi / University of Virginia (July 27-29)
“National Statistics on Residential Mobility: How Researchers are Using Them to Understand Societal Trends”
Hosts: Center for Survey Measurement (Eggleston), Associate Director for Demographic Programs (Jason Fields), Social, Economic, and Housing Division (Fields, Mateyka)

[17] Ming Ji / University of South Florida (July 27-31)
“Pattern Mixture Weighted GEE Models for Survey Nonresponse Using SAS PROC GENMOD”
Hosts: Demographic Statistical Methods Division (Cheng, Gilary), Center for Survey Measurement (Wang)

[18] Carolyn Liebler / University of Minnesota (July 27-31)
“On the Boundaries of Race: Identification of Mixed-Heritage Children in the U.S., 1970 to 2010”
Hosts: Center for Administrative Records Research and Applications (Rastogi), Population Division (Jones)

[19] Kyle Herkenhoff / University of Minnesota (July 27-31, 2015)
“How Credit Constraints Impact Job Finding Rates, Sorting, and Aggregate Output”
Hosts: Center for Economic Studies (Spletzer, Hyatt, Janicki, Dinlersoz)

August

[20] Jay Emerson / Yale University (August 3-7, 2015)
“An Intensive R Workshop” (Limited)
“Advances in Data Visualization with R”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Erdman)

[21] Daniel Goldberg / Texas A&M University (August 3, 2015)
“Fitness for Geo-Use: Interpreting Quality in Geocoding Systems”
Hosts: Geography Division (Namie, Doner, Ratcliffe)

[22] Otavio Bartalotti / Iowa State University (August 3-7, 2015)
“Estimation and Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs with Clustered Sampling”
Hosts: Center for Administrative Records Research and Applications (Brummet)

[23] Wei Lin / Capital University of Economics and Business (CUEB)-Beijing, China / Texas A&M University (August 10-14)
“Functional-PCA Based Seasonal Adjustment Time Series Models with Mixed Frequencies Data”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (McElroy, Roy, Livsey, Pang)

[24] Jennifer Dykema / University of Wisconsin-Madison (August 17-19)
“The Role of Question Characteristics in Designing and Evaluating Survey Questions”
Hosts: Center for Survey Measurement (Beatty, Nelson)

[25] Randall Akee / University of California, Los Angeles (August 17-21)
“Errors in Self Reporting: The Role of Previous Earnings Volatility and Individual Characteristics”
Hosts: Center for Administrative Records Research and Applications (Rastogi, Jones)

[26] Benjamin Pugsley / Federal Reserve Bank of New York (August 24-28)
“Understanding the 30-year Decline in Business Formation: A General Equilibrium Approach”
Hosts: Center for Economic Studies (Hyatt), Associate Directorate for Research and Methodology (Haltiwanger)

[27] Aliya Saperstein / Stanford University (August 31-September 4)
“Trends in the Measurement of Race in U.S. National Surveys”
Hosts: Center for Administrative Records Research and Applications (Rastogi), Population Division (Jones)

September

[28] Yongjin Jin / Renmin University-Beijing, China (September 7-9)
“Sampling Design for Chinese General Social Survey”
Hosts: Demographic Statistical Methods Division (Cheng), Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Wright)

[29] Andrew Penner / University of California, Irvine (September 14-18)
“The Organization of Gender Inequality”
Hosts: Center for Administrative Records Research and Applications (Rastogi, Brummet)

[30] Thurston Domina / University of California, Irvine (September 14-18)
“'Membership Has Its Privileges':Status Incentives and Categorical Inequality in Education”
Hosts: Center for Administrative Records Research and Applications (Rastogi, Brummet)