Themes

Sampling and Estimation [1, 12, 15]

Usability [2]

Reproducibility [3, 30]

Measurement of Unemployment [4]

Education Administrative Records [5]

Population Projections [6, 7]

Taxation [8, 10]

Measurement of Income and Earnings [9, 14]

Data [11, 13, 16, 18, 21, 26]

Experimental Design [17]

Time Series [19, 24, 25]

Measuring Race and Ethnicity [20]

Satellite Imagery/Geostatistics [22, 23]

Transportation and Disability [27]

Crime Statistics [28]

Small Area Estimation [29]

Forecasting [31]

May

[1] Donchu Sun / University of Missouri-Columbia (May 8-12)
“Estimation and Prediction in the Presence of Spatial Confounding for Spatial Linear Models”
Hosts: Demographic Statistical Methods Division (Cheng); Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Maples)

[2] Robert Schumacher / GfK (May 31)
“The Role of Human-Centered Design in Survey Instruments and Beyond”
Hosts: Center for Survey Measurement (Wang)

June

[3] Victoria Stodden / University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (June 5-9)
“Enhancing Reproducibility for Computational Methods”
Hosts: Center for Economic Studies (Sandler, Vilhuber, Foster); Associate Directorate for Research and Methodology (Abowd)

[4] Toshihiko Mukoyama / University of Virginia (June 5-9)
“Barriers to Reallocation and Economic Growth: The Effects of Firing Costs”
Hosts: Center for Economic Studies (Hyatt, Janicki, Dinlersoz, McEntarer)

[5] Andrew Penner / University of California, Irvine (June 5-9)
“The Causal Effects of Course Failure”
Hosts: Center for Administrative Records Research and Application (Pharris-Ciurej, Porter, Brummet)

[6] Jonathan Azose / Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (June 5-8)
“Probabilistic Population Projects with Migration Uncertainty”
Hosts: Population Division (Vespa, Armstrong, Medina, Colby)

[7] Thurston Domina / University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (June 5-9)
“Civil Society Goes to School: A Contextual Analysis of Parent Teacher Associations”
Hosts: Center for Economic Studies (Pharris-Ciurej, Porter, Brummet)

[8] Daniel Feenberg / National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) (June 19)
“An Introduction to TAXSIM”
Hosts: Social, Economic, and Housing Division (Renwick, Fox, Stevens, Glassman); Center for Administrative Records Research and Applications (Jones)

[9] Caroline Weber / University of Oregon (June 19-20)
“Estimating the Elasticity of Broad Income for High-Income Taxpayers”
Hosts: Center for Administrative Records Research and Applications (Voorheis)

[10] Jon Bakija / Williams College (June 20)
“A Comprehensive Historical U.S. Federal and State Income Tax Calculator Program”
Hosts: Social, Economic, and Housing Division (Renwick, Fox, Stevens, Glassman); Center for Administrative Records Research and Applications (Jones)

[11] Richard D. De Veaux/ Williams College (June 27-29)
“Presentation of the Data Science Guidelines for Undergraduate Programs”
“The Seven Deadly Sins of Big Data”
“Aging and Human Performance--What are the Limits?”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Wright); Associate Directorate of Research and Methodology (Abowd)

[12] Guoyi Zhang / University of New Mexico (June 26-June 30)
“Neyman Smooth-Type Goodness of Fit Tests in Survey Data”
Hosts: Demographic Statistical Methods Division (Cheng, Gilary)

[13] Hang Kim / University of Cincinnati (June 27-June 29)
“Statistically Integrated Data-Processing for 2017 Economic Census Microdata”
Hosts: Economic Statistical Methods Division (Thompson); Center for Disclosure Avoidance Research (Dajani)

July

[14] Aloysius Siow / University of Toronto (July 10-13)
“A Quality View of Earnings Inequality”
Hosts: Center for Economic Studies (Warren, Hyatt, Yi); Associate Directorate of Research and Methodology (Abowd)

[15] Bikas K. Sinha / Indian Statistical Institute--Retired (July 11-12)
“Unbiased Estimation of a Finite Population Proportion in the Light of Randomized Reporting”
“Under-Estimation Problems--Further Thoughts”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Wright)

[16] Brad N. Greenwood / University of Minnesota (July 10-12)
“Uber Might Buy Me a Mercedes Benz: An Empirical Investigation of the Sharing Economy and Durable Goods Purchase”
Hosts: Associate Directorate for Research and Methodology (Bhattacharjee, Cuffe, Roberts); Center for Economic Studies (Sienkiewicz)
WebEx Recording Link

[17] Donald P. Green / Columbia University (July 10-13)
“Field Experimental Designs for the Study of Media Effects”
Hosts: Decennial Statistical Studies Division (Bentley)

[18] Hilal Atasoy / Temple University (July 18-20)
“The Impact of Health Information Exchange Use on Chronic Disease Management: An Empirical Investigation”
Hosts: Associate Directorate for Research and Methodology (Bhattacharjee, Cuffe, Roberts)
WebEx Recording Link

[19] Xiaofeng Shao / University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (July 17-21)
“Martingale Difference Divergence and Its Applications to Contemporary Statistics”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (McElroy, Roy, Trimbur, Livsey)

[20] Mehdi Bozorgmehr / City University of New York (July 25-26)
“Middle Eastern American Panethnicity”
Hosts: Population Division (Buchanan, Marks, Rios)

[21] Jing Peng / University of Connecticut (July 25-27) TO BE RESCHEDULED
“Participation vs. Effectiveness of Paid Endorsers in Social Advertising Campaigns: A Field Experiment”
Hosts: Associate Directorate for Research and Methodology (Bhattacharjee)

[22] Marie Haldorson / Statistics Sweden (July 26-28)
“GEOSTAT 2 - A Point-based Foundation for Statistics: A Model for a Point-based Geocoding Infrastructure for Statistics Based on a Geocoded Address, Building, and Dwelling Register”
Hosts: Associate Directorate for Decennial Census (Trainor); Geography (Ratcliffe, Bishop)

[23] Dan Hammer / University of California, Berkeley (July 31-August 3)
“Change Detection and Validation Metrics for Relevant Use of Commercial Satellite Imagery”
Hosts: Customer Liaison and Marketing Office (Meisel); Geography (Ratcliffe)

August

[24] John Aston / University of Cambridge (August 4-7)
“Wavelet Benchmarking and Seasonal Adjustment--Some Theory and Results”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Monsell); Economic Statistical Methods Division (McDonald-Johnson, Imel, Lytras)

[25] Duncan Elliott / Office of National Statistics (UK) (August 4-7)
“A Comparison of New and Established Benchmarking Methods”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Monsell); Economic Statistical Methods Division (McDonald-Johnson, Imel, Lytras)

[26] Sezgin Ayabakan / Temple University (August 8-10)
“Reevaluating Readmission Reduction Policies: The Role of Telehealth and Latent Patient Health Status”
Hosts: Associate Directorate for Research and Methodology (Bhattacharjee, Cuffe); Center for Adminstrative Records Research and Applications (Rastogi, Medalia)
WebEx Recording Link

[27] Christopher Clapp / Florida State University (August 14-18)
“Interactions of Public Paratransit and Vocational Rehabiliation”
Hosts: Center for Economic Studies (Sandler, Foote)

[28] Michael Mueller-Smith / University of Michigan (August 14-18)
“Avoiding Convictions: Regression Discontinuity Evidence on Court Deferrals for First-Time Drug Offenders”
Hosts: Center for Administrative Records Research and Applications (Finlay)

[29] Thuan Nguyen / Oregon Health & Science University (August 14-18)
“Fence Methods for Small Area Estimiation: Recent Development and Implementation”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Franco, Maples); Demographic Statistical Methods Division (Cheng); Economic Statistical Methods Division (Tran); Social, Economic, and Housing Division (Zhou)

[30] George Alter / University of Michigan (August 28-30)
“Continuous Capture of Metadata for Statistical Data”
Hosts: Center for Economic Studies (Klimek)

September

[31] PingFang Zhu / Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (September 18-19)
“R&D Spill-Over Effects: Evidence from Chinese Industrial Sectors”
Hosts: Demographic Statistical Methods Division (Cheng); Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Wright)