The 2016 Joint Statistical Meetings will take place July 30-August 4, 2015 in Chicago, IL. NCRN Researchers participate in the program, and this page lists a "virtual" program of sessions and activities with NCRN participation. NCRN members are bolded, speakers are in italics
Sunday, July 31
Session: Survey Costs and Survey Designs: Trade-Offs and Advances
NCRN Speaker:
- Can Microsimulation Help Us Understand (and Control) Survey Costs? — Alan Karr, RTI International
Discussant: John Eltinge, Bureau of Labor Statistics
NCRN Contributors:
- Robustness of Employer List Linking to Methodological Variation — Mark J. Kutzbach, U.S. Census Bureau; Graton Gathright, U.S. Census Bureau ; Andrew Green, U.S. Census Bureau/Cornell University ; Kristin McCue, U.S. Census Bureau; Holly Monti, U.S. Census Bureau; Ann Rodgers, University of Michigan; Lars Vilhuber, Cornell University; Nada Wasi, University of Michigan; Christopher Wignall, Amazon.com
- Two Perspectives on Commuting and Workplace: A Microdata Comparison of Home-to-Work Flows Across Linked Survey and Administrative Files — Andrew Green, Cornell University/U.S. Census Bureau; Mark J. Kutzbach, U.S. Census Bureau; Lars Vilhuber, Cornell University
- Developing Job Linkages for the Health and Retirement Study — Kristin McCue, U.S. Census Bureau; John M. Abowd, U.S. Census Bureau/Cornell University; Margaret Levenstein, University of Michigan; Matthew Shapiro, University of Michigan; Ann Rodgers, University of Michigan; Nada Wasi, University of Michigan; Dhiren Patki, University of Michigan
Session: Introductory Overview Lecture: Spatio-Temporal Data Analysis
NCRN Speaker:
- An Introduction to Spatio-Temporal Statistics: There Is No History Without Geography (and Vice Versa!) — Christopher Wikle, University of Missouri
Session: Modeling, Analysis, and Inference from Surveys Using Bayesian Methods
NCRN Speaker:
- Survey Integration and Estimation of Joint Distributions with Conditionally Representative Data Sources — Maria DeYoreo, Duke University; Bailey Fosdick, Colorado State University
Monday, August 1
Session: Tackling the Challenges of Missing Data in Surveys: Applying Methods and Assessing Uncertainty
NCRN Speakers:
- Using Auxiliary Marginal Information to Deal with Nonignorable Missing Data — Mauricio Sadinle, Duke University/National Institute of Statistical Sciences; Jerome Reiter, Duke University
Session: Bayesian Innovations for Negotiating High-Dimensional Data
NCRN Contributor:
- Why Popular Bayesian Nonparametric Methods Fail for Sparse Clustering Tasks — Rebecca Steorts, Duke University ; Jeffrey Miller, Duke University ; Brenda Betancourt ; Abbas Zaidi, Duke University ; Hanna Wallach, University of Massachusetts - Amherst/Microsoft Research
Session: Statistical Foundations of Data Privacy
NCRN Speaker:
- Performance Bounds for Graphical Record Linkage: Can record linkage bounds provide guidance for private synthetic data release? — Rebecca Steorts, Duke University ; Matt Barnes, Carnegie Mellon University ; Willie Neisweigner, Carnegie Mellon University
Session: Advances in Statistical Methods for Dissemination and Analysis of Official Statistics
NCRN Speakers:
- An Integrated Approach to Providing Access to Confidential Social Science Data — Jerome Reiter, Duke University
- The Challenge of Reproducible Science and Privacy Protection for Statistical Agencies — John M. Abowd, U.S. Census Bureau/Cornell University
- Spatio-Temporal Change of Support with Application to American Community Survey Multi-Year Period Estimates — Scott H. Holan, University of Missouri ; Jonathan R. Bradley, University of Missouri ; Christopher Wikle, University of Missouri
Discussant: Thomas A. Louis, The Johns Hopkins University
Wednesday, August 3
Session: Basis Function Approaches to Modeling Dependence in Environmental and Ecological Data
NCRN Speaker:
- Rank Reduction and Basis Coefficient Interaction in Dynamic Spatio-Temporal Models — Christopher Wikle, University of Missouri
NCRN Contributor:
- Latent Space Approaches to Dynamic Multilayer Networks — Nabanita Mukherjee, Duke University; Rebecca Steorts, Duke University; Daniele Durante, University of Padua
Thursday, August 4
Session: Uncertainty Quantification in Climate Science
NCRN Speakers:
- Uncertainties in Spatio-Temporal Prediction for Carbon Cycle Science: From Satellite Data to Surface Fluxes — Noel Cressie, University of Wollongong ; Andrew Zammit-Mangion, University of Wollongong ; Amy Braverman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory ; Jonathan Hobbs, Jet Propulsion Laboratory