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News
- The SRMS will host another webinar at 1-3PM EST on Tuesday, 9 February 2010. Roger Tourangeau will present "The Psychology of Survey Response." Register here.
- 2009 JSM Poster Awards Winners are
First Place Winners
- Edward Mulrow, Susan Hinkins and Fritz Scheuren (NORC at the University of Chicago) "Visualization of Complex Survey Data"
Honorable Mention
- Jeffrey Gonzalez and John L. Eltinge (Bureau of Labor Statistics) "Imputation Methods for Adaptive Matrix Sampling"
- Tian Zheng and Tyler H. McCormick (Columbia University) "Latent Structure Models for Social Networks Using Aggregated Relational Data"
- Student travel award winners for 2009 are:
- Burcu Eke, School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Arizona State University
- Brady West, the Program in Survey Methodology, University of Michigan
- E. C. Bryant Scholarship Award Winner for 2009 is Qixuan Chen, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan.
- The 2001 Waksberg Award winner is Ivan P. Fellegi, Chief Statistician Emiretus, Statistics Canada. Dr. Fellegi will give the 2010 Waksberg Invited Address at the Statistics Canada Symposium to be held in the autumn of 2010.
- 2009 Student Paper Competition winners are:
- Solange Corre (University of Southampton) "Bias corrections in multilevel modeling of survey data with applications to small area estimation"
- Benmei Liu (University of Maryland, JPSM) "Adaptive hierarchical Bayes estimation of small-area proportion"
- Jeremy Porter (Mississippi State University) "Using multivariate special statistics in the modeling of rate-based diffusion processes: an extension and replication of Cohen and Tita"
- Santanu Pramanik (University of Maryland, JPSM) "The prior selection and approximations for the nested error regression model: estimation of finite population means for small area"
- Hui Zhang (University of Rochester Medical Center, Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology) "Generalized ANOVA for concurrently modeling mean and variance within a longitudinal data setting"
- The SRMS 2009 Election Results
- Chair Elect: Stephen H. Cohen
- Program Chair Elect: Paul Beatty
- Secretary: Emily McFarlane
- Council of Sections Representative: Tony Baiqing An
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Check out the
July 2009 issue of the SRMS
newsletter.
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We are pleased to announce that the online edition of
the Proceedings of the Survey Research Methods
Section of the American Statistical Association
(1978-2008) is now available.
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Newly revised
"What's a
survey?" pamphlet is now available
online.
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The SRMS Board endorses "Interviewer Falsification
in Survey Research: Current Best Methods for
Prevention, Detection and Repair of its Effects"
as a statement of good professional practices on
the handling of potential interviewer
falsification of survey data, and value it as a
foundation for stimulating further work and
discussion in this important area. This guideline was created by 35
survey statisticians and scientists at "Ann Arbor Summit on
7Interviewer Falsification, April 4-6, 2003," sponsored by Department
of Health and Human Services' Office of Research Integrity and
University of Michigan Survey Research Center.
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A group of faculty
involved in the various grad
programs in survey statistics
and methodology at American
Association for Public Opinion
Research (AAPOR) assembled a list
of
"Universities and Colleges with
Degree Programs in Survey
Methodology."
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