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May 30 - June 1, 2012 Fields Institute Symposium on the Analysis of Survey Data and Small Area Estimation in honour of the 75th Birthday of Professor J.N.K. Rao Held at the 5050 Minto Centre, Carleton University Organizers Patrick Farrell (Carleton) David Haziza (Montreal) Mike Hidiroglou (Statistics Canada) Jason Nielsen (Carleton) Sanjoy Sinha (Carleton) sinha@math.carleton.ca Wesley Yung (Statistics Canada)

Theme

This will be a three day symposium on the analysis of survey data and small area estimation, focusing on the areas of longitudinal data analysis, modeling for efficient small area estimation, missing data analysis, and categorical data analysis along with various application.

Format

On the first day of the symposium, we intend to have a keynote address by Professor Wayne Fuller on recent developments of statistical methods for small area estimation. This will be followed by three invited paper sessions according to the schedule below. There will be three talks in each invited session. The last two days of the symposium will have four invited paper sessions as described below. There will also be a poster session during the symposium.

INVITED SPEAKERS

Wayne Fuller (keynote address), Iowa State University
Jean-Francois Beaumont, Statistics Canada
David Bellhouse, University of Western Ontario
Gauri Datta, The University of Georgia
Patrick Farrell , Carleton University
Robert Fay, WESTAT
Moshe Feder, University of Southampton
Malay Ghosh, University of Florida
David Haziza, University of Montreal
Mike Hidiroglou , Statistics Canada
Graham Kalton, Westat
Jiming Jiang , University of California, Davis
Jae Kwang Kim, Iowa State University
Phillip Kott, Research Triangle Institute
Partha Lahiri, University of Maryland, College Park
Brenda MacGibbon, Universite du Quebec
Isabel Molina, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Domingo Morales, Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche
Ralf Munnich, University of Trier, Germany
Balgobin Nandram , Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Danny Pfeffermann, Hebrew University of Jerusalem &Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute,UK
Narasimha Prasad, University of Alberta
Sunil Rao, University of Miami
Louis Paul Rivest, Universite Laval
Ehsanes Saleh, Carleton University
Fritz Scheuren, Human Rights Data Analysis Group
Joe Sedransk, Case Western Reserve University (retired)
Natalie Shlomo, University of Southampton
Chris Skinner, London School of Economics
Mary Thompson, University of Waterloo
Mahmoud Torabi, University of Manitoba
Lola Ugarte, Public University of Navarre
Changbao Wu, University of Waterloo
Yong You, Statistics Canada
Wesley Yung, Statistics Canada

Workshop Schedule

Wednesday May 30, 2012
8:45-9:00	Opening Remarks Patrick J. Farrell (Carleton University) and Malcom Butler (Carleton University)
9:00-10:00	Keynote Address by Professor Wayne Fuller* Small Area Prediction: Some Comments Chair: Donald Dawson (Carleton University)
10:00-10:30	Coffee Break
10:30-12:00	Session 1 (3 talks of 30 minutes) Small Area Estimation 1 Chair: Mohamedou Ould Haye (Carleton University) Robert Fay* (Westat) The Multiple Facets of Small Area Estimation: A Case Study Fritz Scheuren* (Human Rights Data Analysis Group) Indigenous Population: Small Domain Issues M.A. Hidiroglou*, V. Estevao and Y. You (Statistics Canada) Unit Level Small Area Estimation for Business Survey Data
12:00-13:30	Lunch
13:30-15:00	Session 2 (3 talks of 30 minutes) Analysis of Survey Data 1 Chair: Roland Thomas (Carleton University) David Bellhouse* (University of Western Ontario) The Teaching of a First Course in Survey Sampling Motivated by Survey Data Analysis Jean-François Beaumont* (Statistics Canada) The Analysis of Survey Data Using the Bootstrap Patrick J. Farrell* (Carleton University), Brenda MacGibbon* (Université du Québec à Montréal), Gillian Bartlett (McGill University) and Thomas J. Tomberlin (Carleton University) The Estimating Function Jackknife Variance Estimator in a Marginal Logistic Regression Model with Repeated Measures and a Complex Sample Design: Its Small Sample Properties and an Application
15:00-15:30	Coffee Break
15:30-17:00	Session 3 (3 talks of 30 minutes) Small Area Estimation 2 Chair: Sanjoy Sinha (Carleton University) Balgobin Nandram* (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) A Bayesian Analysis of a Two-Fold Small Area Model for Binary Data Junheng Ma (National Institute of Statistical Sciences) and J. Sedransk* (Case Western Reserve University) Bayesian Predictive Inference for Finite Population Quantities under Informative Sampling Isabel Molina* (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Balgobin Nandram (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) and J.N.K. Rao (Carleton University ) Hierarchical Bayes Estimation of Poverty Indicators in Small Area
17:00-18:30	Reception - MacPhail Room (HP 4351)
Thursday May 31, 2012
9:00 - 10:30	Session 4 (3 talks of 30 minutes) Small Area Estimation 3 Chair: Miklos Csorgo (Carleton University) Danny Pfeffermann* (Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute), Natalie Shlomo (Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute) and Yahia El-Horbaty (Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute) Model Selection and Diagnostics for Model-Based Small Area Estimation Louis-Paul Rivest* (Université Laval) and François Verret (Statistics Canada) Copula-Based Small Area Predictions for Unit Level Models J. Sunil Rao* (University of Miami), Jiming Jiang (University of California - Davis) and Thuan Nguyen (Oregon Health and Science University) Fence Methods for Mixed Model Selection
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-12:30	Session 5 (3 talks of 30 minutes) Missing Data Chair: Gordon Brackstone (Ottawa) Changbao Wu* (University of Waterloo), Jiahua Chen (University of British Columbia) and Jae-Kwang Kim (Iowa State University ) Semiparametric Fractional Imputation for Complex Survey Data Jeroen Pannekoek (Statistics Netherlands), Natalie Shlomo* (Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute) and Ton de Waal (Statistics Netherlands) Calibrated Imputation of Numerical Data under Linear Edit Restrictions Jiming Jiang* (University of California, Davis), Thuan Nguyen (Oregon Health and Science University) and J. Sunil Rao (University of Miami) The EMAF and E-MS Algorithms: Model Selection with Incomplete Data
12:30-13:45	Lunch
13:45-15:30	Session 6 (3 talks of 30 minutes) Small Area Estimation 4 Chair: Yogendra Chaubey (Concordia University) Ralf T. Münnich*, Ekkehard W. Sachs and Matthias Wagner (University of Trier) Calibration Benchmarking for Small Area Estimates: An Application to the German Census 2011 Gauri S. Datta* (University of Georgia), W.R. Bell (U.S. Census Bureau) and Malay Ghosh (University of Florida) Benchmarking Small Area Estimators Malay Ghosh* (University of Florida) and Rebecca Steorts (University of Florida) Two-Stage Bayesian Benchmarking as Applied to Small Area Estimation Rebecca Steorts* (University of Florida) and Malay Ghosh (University of Florida) On Estimation of Mean Squared Errors of Benchmarked Empirical Bayes Estimators
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break
16:00-17:30	Session 7 (3 talks of 30 minutes) Reducing nonsampling errors Chair: Ralph Folsom (Research Triangle Institute) Chris Skinner* (London School of Economics and Political Science), Damiao da Silva (University of Southampton) and Jae-Kwang Kim (Iowa State University) Extending Missing Data Methods to a Measurement Error Setting Jae-Kwang Kim* and Sixia Chen (Iowa State University) Two-Phase Sampling Approach for Propensity Score Estimation in Voluntary Samples Phillip Kott* (Research Triangle Institute) One Step or Two? Calibration Weighting when Sampling from a Complete List Frame
18:00-20:00	Banquet at RINAG 88 Jamie Avenue 613-727-0702
Friday June 1, 2012
9:00-10:30	Session 8 (3 talks of 30 minutes) Small Area Estimation 5 Chair: Chul Park (Carleton University) Snigdhansu Chatterjee (University of Minnesota) and Partha Lahiri* (University of Maryland, College Park) Parametric Bootstrap Methods in Small Area Estimation Problems Lola Ugarte* (University of Navarre) Deriving Small Area Estimates from the Information Technology Survey Yong You* and Mike Hidiroglou (Statistics Canada) Sampling Variance Smoothing Methods for Small Area Proportions
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-12:30	Session 9 (3 talks of 30 minutes) Analysis of Survey Data 2 Chair: Jason Nielsen (Carleton University) Graham Kalton* (Westat) Design and Analysis of Venue-Based Samples Mary Thompson* (University of Waterloo) Bootstrap Methods in Complex Surveys Moshe Feder* (University of Southampton) State-Space Modelling of U.K. Labour Force Survey Rolling Quarterly Wave Data
12:30-14:00	Lunch
14:00-15:30	Session 10 (3 talks of 30 minutes) Small Area Estimation 6 Chair: Mary March (Ottawa) Esther López-Vizcaíno, María José Lombardía and Domingo Morales* (Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche) Small Area Estimation of Labour Force Indicators under Multinomial Mixed Models with Time and Area Effects Mahmoud Torabi* (University of Manitoba) Spatio-temporal Modeling of Small Area Rare Events Susana Rubin-Bleuer*, Wesley Yung* and Sébastien Landry(Statistics Canada) Variance Component Estimation through the Adjusted Maximum Likelihood Method
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break
16:00-17:30	Session 11 (3 talks of 30 minutes) Design-based Inference Chair: Georgia Roberts (Statistics Canada) A.K.Md. Ehsanes Saleh* (Carleton University) Model Assisted Improved Estimation of Population Totals Shu Jing Gu and N.G.N. Prasad* (University of Alberta) Estimation of Median for Successive Sampling David Haziza* (Université de Montréal), Audrey Béliveau (Simon Fraser University) and Jean-François Beaumont (Statistics Canada) Simplified Variance Estimation in Two-Phase Sampling
17:30-17:45	Closing Remarks

Confirmed Participants as of May 30, 2012

Full Name	University Name
An, Tony	SAS Institute Inc
Bartlett, Gillian	McGill University
Beaumont, Jean-François	Statistics Canada
Beliveau, Audrey	Simon Fraser University
Bell, W. R.	U.S. Census Bureau
Bellhouse, David	University of Western Ontario
Binder, David
Brackstone, Gordon
Butler, Malcolm	Carleton University
Charlebois, Joanne	Carleton University
Chatrchi, Golshid	Carleton University
Chatterjee, Snigdhansu	University of Minnesota
Chaubey, Yogendra	Concordia University
Chen, Jiahua	University of British Columbia
Chen, Sixia	Iowa State University
Choudhry, G. Hussain
Chowdhury, Salehin	Carleton University
da Silva, Damiao	University of Southampton
Dai, Miao	Carleton University
Datta, Gauri	University of Georgia
Dawson, Donald	Carleton University
de Waal, Ton	Statistics Netherlands
Dumitrescu, Laura	Carleton University
El-Horbaty, Yahia	Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute
Estevao, Victor	Statistics Canada
Farrell, Patrick	Carleton University
Fay, Robert	Westat, Inc
Feder, Moshe	University of Southampton
Folsom, Ralph	RTI International
Fuller, Wayne	Iowa State University
Ghania, Amal	Carleton University
Ghent, Ian	SAS Institute Inc.
Ghosh, Malay	University of Florida
Gravel, Chris	Carleton University
Gu, Shu Jing	University of Alberta
Haziza, David	Université de Montréal
Hidiroglou, Mike	Statistics Canada
Jiang, Jiming	University of California, Davis
José Lombardía, María	Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche
Kalton, Graham	Westat
Kim, Jae-kwang	Iowa State University
Kott, Phillip	RTI International
Lahiri, Partha	University of Maryland
Landry, Sébastien	Statistics Canada
Li, Yan	University of Texas at Arlington
López-Vizcaíno, Esther	Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche
Ma, Junheng	National Institute of Statistical Sciences
MacGibbon, Brenda	Université du Québec à Montréal
March, Mary
Mashreghi, Zeinab	Université de Montréal
Molina, Isabel	Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Morales, Domingo	University Miguel Hernández de Elche
Münnich, Ralf	University of Trier
Nandram, Balgobin	Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Nguyen, Thuan	Oregon Health and Science University
Nielsen, Jason	Carleton University
Ould-Haye, Mohamedou	Carleton University
Pannekoek, Jeroen	Statistics Netherlands
Park, Chul	Carleton University
Park, Seunghwan	Iowa State University
Pfeffermann, Danny	University of Southampton
Prasad, Narasimha	University of Alberta
Qian, Wei	Carleton University
Rao, J. Sunil	University of Miami
Rao, Jon N.K.	Carleton University
Rivest, Louis-Paul	Université Laval
Roberts, Georgia
Rubin-Bleuer, Susana	Statistics Canada
Sachs, Ekkehard W.	University of Trier
Saleh, A.K.Md. Ehsanes	Carleton University
Scheuren, Fritz	NORC @ University of Chicago
Sedransk, Joe	Case Western Reserve University
Shlomo, Natalie	University of Southampton
Sinha, Sanjoy	Carleton University
Sivathayalan, Ahalya	Carleton University
Skinner, Chris	London School of Economics
Steorts, Rebecca	University of Florida
Tabuchi, Tracy	First Nations Statistical Institute
Thomas, Roland	Carleton University
Thompson, Mary	University of Waterloo
Tomberlin, Thomas J.	Carleton University
Torabi, Mahmoud	University of Manitoba
Ugarte, María Dolores	Universidad Pública de Navarra
Vaish, Akhil	RTI International
Verret, François	Statistics Canada
Wagner, Matthias	University of Trier
Wang, Zilin	Wilfrid laurier University
Winiszewska, Malgorzata	Carleton University
Wu, Changbao	University of Waterloo
Ye, Wenzhe	Carleton University
You, Yong	Statistics Canada
Yu, Cindy	Iowa State University
Yung, Wesley	Statistics Canada
Zhu, Zhengyuan	Iowa State University

 

 

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