Washington Statistical Society Methodology Seminars

2008 Recent Developments in Address-based Sampling Nonresponse Adjustments in Survey Applications Assessing Disclosure Risk, and Preventing Disclosure, in Microdata Statistics Can Lie But Can Also Correct for Lies: Reducing Response Bias in NLAAS via Bayesian Imputation Reducing Disclosure Risk in Microdata and Tabular Data Coverage Measurement for the 2010 Census Medicaid Underreporting in the CPS: Results from a Record Check Study 2007 Approaches to Reducing and Evaluating Nonresponse Bias, With Applications to Adult Literacy Surveys Evaluating Alternative One-Sided Coverage Intervals for an Extreme Binomial Proportion Statistical Issues and Challenges Arising from Analysis of Genome-Wide Association Studies Small Area Estimation: An Empirical Best Linear Unbiased Prediction Approach New Experiments on the Design of Complex Survey Questions Modeling Multiple-Response Categorical Data From Complex Surveys A Geostatistical Approach to Linking Geographically-Aggregated Data/A System for Detecting Arbitrarily Shaped Hotspots Imputation Using Empirical Likelihood Assessment of Coverage and Utility of Residential Address Lists Estimation under Ignorable Response Mechanism and Unweighted Imputation Spatial Association Between Speciated Fine Particles and Mortality Characterization, Modeling and Management of Inferential Risk, Data Quality Risk and Operational Risk in Survey Procedures Confidence Interval Coverage in Model-Based Estimation Using the t-distribution to Deal with Outliers in Small Area Estimation The STATCOM Network: A Role for Students in Pro Bono Statistical Consulting to the Community Introduction to Data Mining Methodology for Statisticians President's Invited Panel Discussion on Finite Population Correction Factors Bayesian Diagnostics for Detecting Hierarchical Structure Mortality in Iraq 2006 Empirical Likelihood Methods for Complex Surveys Working with the American Community Survey: Findings from the National Academies Panel Partially Synthetic Data for Disclosure Avoidance: An Application to the American Community Survey Group Quarters Data Prediction of Finite Population Totals Based on the Sample Distribution A Multiscale Method for Disease Mapping in Spatial Epidemiology Implications for RDD Design from an Incentive Experiment Characterization of Cost Structures, Perceived Value and Optimization Issues in Small Domain Estimation Bayesian and Frequentist Methods for Provider Profiling Using Risk-Adjusted Assessments of Medical Outcomes Estimating Drug Use Prevalence Using Latent Class Models with Item Count Response as One of the Indicators A Multiscale Method for Disease Mapping in Spatial Epidemiology Estimating Drug Use Prevalence Using Latent Class Models with Item Count Response as One of the Indicators The State of Record Linkage Small Area Estimation using Multiple Surveys Indirect Monetary Incentives with a Complex Agricultural Establishment Survey The Use of Contact History Data for Exploring Survey Nonresponse in Federal Demographic Surveys 2005 Data Collection and Statistical Issues in Surveying Cell and Landline Telephone Samples The Effects of Cell Collapsing in Poststratification Empirical Bayes Analysis of Bivariate Binary Data: An Application to Small Area Estimation Best Practices In Estimating And Reporting Nonresponse Bias Using MASSC to Minimize Information Loss and Control Disclosure Ris Household Telephone Service and Usage Patterns in the United States in 2004 Questionnaire Design Methodology for a Study of Human Rights Abuses during the Armed Internal Conflict of Sierra Leone Jackknife and Bootstrap Resampling Methods in Two-Stage Designs Evaluating Alternative Calibration Schemes for an Economic Survey With Large Nonresponse Analyzing Call History Records to Achieve Optimal Outcomes: Survey Response and Efficient Use of Resources Major Challenges for the Future: Administrative Records, American Topic: Mortality Before and After the 2003 Invasion Of Iraq: Cluster Sample Survey Analysis of Nonresponse in Telephone Surveys Accumulated Respondent Burden on NASS Surveys Documenting Attrocities in Dafur Discussion of Nonresponse on the 2001 National Household Travel Survey Machine Learning Methods for Text Classification 2004 Data Quality and Record Linkage: A Broad Survey of Applications and Techniques Data Quality and Record Linkage: A Broad Survey of Applications and Techniques < From Controlled Experiment to Production Environment: Refusal Aversion Training Adoption and Considerations for Future Use and Research Microdata Confidentiality Methods Testing An Automated Refusal Avoidance Training Methodology Data Quality Methods Quantifying What a Representative Sample Is Modification of Chernikova's Algorithm and Error Localization in Linear Editing Operational Examples of Balanced Sampling Theory of Median Balanced Sampling Combining Filter Design with Model-Based Filtering (A Model-Based Perspective) Avoiding Bad Samples in Business Surveys and Getting "Good" Ones Identifying Problems with Raking Estimators Outliers: Identification and Treatment Through the Use of Chebyshev's Theorem Student-t Based Interval Estimation of Complex Statistics Under Calibration Weighting A New Price Index for Air Travel Calibration with Multiple Constraints 2003 Survey Nonresponse Measurement Reconsidered Efficient Estimation for Surveys with Nonresponse Follow-Up Using Dual-Frame Calibration Calibration Weighting: Past, Present, and Future Policy Decision Making Parental Reports of Children's Race and Ethnicity in a National Longitudinal Cohort Study Graphical Analysis To Unmask Hidden Performance Differences Nonparametric Multi-step Ahead Prediction in Time Series Analysis Statistical and Operational Issues in Sampling Race and Ethnic Groups for an RDD Survey Evaluation Results of an Administrative Records Census Experiment The Statistical Administrative Records System and Administrative Records Experiment in 2000: System Design, Successes, and Challenges Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) Prototype Disclosure Software for Tabular Data 2002 Confidentiality for a Mandatory Reporting System: Challenges and Solutions Afghan Refugee Camp Surveys: Pakistan, 2002 Synthetic Tabular Data To Limit Statistical Disclosure Of Sensitive Information Confidentiality Audit On Suppressed Entries in Multi-Dimensional Contingency Tables Analyzing patterns of killings and migration flow in Kosovo, March-June 1999 Combination of Information from Several Sources: The Case of t and F Tests Two-Sided Coverage Intervals For Small Proportions Based On Survey Data Global Atmospheric Changes: Statistical Trend Analyses of Ozone and Temperature Data A Adaptive and Link-Tracing Sampling Designs Surveys On Disclosure Protection for Non-Traditional Statistical Outputs 2001 The Empirical Role of Young Versus Old Gestational Ages in the Abortion Debate The Statistical Power of National Data to Evaluate Welfare Reform The Data Web Project: Confidentiality Issues New GAO Report on Research Record Linkage Producing Small Area Estimates from National Surveys: Methods for Minimizing Use of Indirect Estimators Interviewer Refusal Aversion Training to Increase Survey Participation Effect of Using Priority Mail on Response Rates in a Panel Survey Oatmeal Cookies, Weather Modification, and Organ Failure: The Art of Combining Results from Independent Statistical Studies Federal Statistics and Statistical Ethics: The Role of the ASA's "Ethical Guidelines for Statistical Practice" An Integrated Framework for Database Privacy Protection 2000 Education Certifications and Other Non-Traditional Educational Outcomes: Perspectives of Data Users and Researchers The Effects of Person-level vs. Household-level Questionnaire Design on Survey Estimates and Data Quality Delivering Interactive Graphics on the Web Data Presentation – A Guide to Good Graphics and Tables The Reluctant Embrace of Law and Statistics Use of Hierarchical Modeling in Substance Abuse Surveys An Algorithm for the Distribution of the Number of Successes in Fourth- or Lower-Order Markovian Trials Generalized Linear Models for Sample Surveys Some Practical Aspects of Disclosure Analysis The Influence of Environmental Characteristics on Survey Cooperation: A Comparison of Metropolitan Areas Response Variance in the Current Population Survey Income Supplement Bayesian Statistics in Action To Bayes or Not to Bayes Tutorial The Foundation of AIC and Its Use in Multi-Model Inference Producing an Annual Superlative Index Using Monthly Price Data Latent Class Analysis of Embedded Repeated Measurements: An Application to the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse Exploring the Relationship between Survey Participation and Survey Sponsorship: What do respondents and non-respondents think of us? An Analysis of The Relationship Between Survey burden and Non-response: If we bother them more, are they less cooperative? The Pros and Cons of Using Design-Based Methods for Estimating Model Parameters: A General Theory Common Influences Across Household Surveys on Noncontact Nonresponse: Theory and Data Multiple Imputation Tutorial Recent Developments in Legal Frameworks Governing Individually Identifiable Data Measuring Job Flows and the Life Cycle of Establishments With BLS Longitudinal Establishment Microdata Mining Superlarge Datasets Latent Class Analysis of Embedded Repeated Measurements: An Application to the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse Issues in Combining Survey Data: Estimates from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey and the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey The National Center for Health Statistics Research Data Center: New research Opportunities 1999 Survey Design & Analysis for Hierarchical Linear Models Estimation from Linked Surveys Estimation & Variance Estimation in a Standardized Economic Processing System Using Auxiliary Data to Improve the Survey Frame and Reduce Survey Costs Variance Estimation: Effects of Weight Adjustments (second of two-part series) Variance Estimation 1: Accounting for Imputation (first of two-part series) The American Community Survey: A Status Report for Statisticians Balancing Confidentiality and Burden Concerns in Surveys and Censuses of Large Businesses Event History Analysis of Interviewer and Respondent Survey Behavior Census Household Survey Redesigns Respondent Incentives in Surveys Telephone Surveys: Past, Present, and Future — Highlighting the Contributions of James T. Massey Electricity Restructuring: Opportunities to Exercise Market Power? On the Stochastic Approach to Index Numbers

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