Themes

Community Based-Assessments [5]

Community Resilience [3]

Measuring Asians in America [16]

Occupational Restructuring [2]

Probability Sampling [11, 12]

Rural Statistics [10]

Spatial & Temporal Statistics [7, 8, 9]

Statistical Machine Learning Applications [13]

Survey Methodology [6]

Survey Sampling Methodology  [1, 4, 17]

Understanding America Study (UAS) [14, 15]

*All visits during 2023 were virtual

May

[1] Brady West/University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (May 30 and June 20)
“Moving from a National Probability-Based Push-to-Web Survey to an Online Probability-Based Panel: What are the Issues?”;
“Preferred Reporting Items for Complex Sample Survey Analysis (PRICSSA)"
Hosts: Demographic Directorate (Hunter-Childs), Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division (Fields)

June

[2] Xi Song/University of Pennsylvania (June 6-7)
“When Occupations Disappear: Inequality in Mobility Between Workers in
Occupations with Job Expansion and Contraction”
Hosts: Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division (Laughlin, Wisniewski, Martin-Caughey)

[3] Omar Perez Figueroa/University of California, Irvine (June 8)
“Understanding Resilience in Communities Through Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches”
Hosts: Center For Behavioral Science Methods (Goerman, Argentina Garcia Trejo); Office of Strategic Alliances (Malagon); Communications Directorate (Vines)

[4] Colm O'Muircheartaigh/Harris School of Public Policy and NORC at UChicago (June 12-13)
“Middle Alternatives, Acquiescence, and the Quality of Likert Scales”
Hosts: Center For Behavioral Science Methods (Pascale)

[5] Bijan Kimiagar/Citizen's Commitment Approach (June 14)
“Policy Research and Advocacy Through Family Centered, Community-Based Assessments”
Hosts: Center For Behavioral Science Methods (Argentina Garcia Trejo), Population Division (Jensen), Communications Directorate (Vines)

[6] Heather Kitada Smalley/Willamette University (June 21-23)
“Adjusting for Mode Effects in Surveys: The Challenges and Inferential Implications of Modeling Effect Type”
Hosts: Center For Behavioral Science Methods (Larsen, Goerman, Beatty, Ellis)

July

[7] Douglas Nychka/Colorado School of Mines (July 11-13)
“Spatial Statistics Beyond the Textbook”
Hosts: Research & Methodology Directorate (McElroy), Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Janicki)

[8] Soutir Bandyopadhyay/Colorado School of Mines (July 11-13)
“Regridding Uncertainty for Statistical Downscaling of Solar Radiation”
Hosts: Research & Methodology Directorate (McElroy), Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Janicki)

[9] William Kleiber/Colorado School of Mines (July 11-13)
“Two Problems in Statistical Climatology: High-Dimensional Processes and non-Gaussianity”
Hosts: Research & Methodology Directorate (McElroy), Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Janicki)

[10] Cassandra Dorius/Iowa State University (July 17-19)
“Integrating People and Data to Promote Rural Vitality”
Hosts: Center for Economic Studies (Voorheis, Pharris-Ciure, Bhaskar, Perez-Patron), Economic Programs Directorate (Genadeck)

[11] Bikas Sinha/Indian Statistical Institute (Retired Prof. of Statistics) (July 20)
“On Never-ending Features of SRSWR(N, n) Designs and Related Unbiased Estimators for the Population Mean and Population Variance”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Wright, Engmark)

[12] Sixia Chen/The University of Oklahoma (July 26)
Two-Part Workshop: “Analytic Tools for Handling Nonprobability Samples”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Wright, Engmark)

[13] Greg Ridgeway/University of Pennsylvania (July 28)
“Scorecards, Benchmarking, and the Search for Unusual Hospitals, Communities, and Cops”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Kang, Morris, Joyce, Dompreh)

August

[14] Arie Kapteyn/Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR), University of Southern California (August 1-2)
“Collecting Person-Generated Health Data in a Population-Representative Panel”
Hosts: Demographic Directorate (Hunter-Childs), Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division (Fields)

[15] Marco Angrisani/Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR), University of Southern California (August 1-2)
“Recruitment, Retention, and Sample Representativeness in the Understanding America Study, a Probability-Based Online Panel”;
“Collection of Electronic Financial Records in a Population-Representative Panel”
Hosts: Demographic Directorate (Hunter-Childs), Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division (Fields)

[16] Neil Ruiz/Pew Research Center (August 2)
“Solving the Data Gap on Asian Americans in Public Opinion Research”
Hosts: Center For Behavioral Science Methods (Goerman, Argentina Garcia Trejo, Meyers)

[17] Jerzy Wieczorek/Colby College (August 2-4)
“Design-based Conformal Prediction for Survey Sampling”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Wright, Hall)