SRMS Student Travel Awards

1. 2009 Awards Winners
   
   • Burcu Eke, School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Arizona State University
   • Brady West, the Program in Survey Methodology, University of Michigan
   
   
2. 2008 Awards Winners
   
   • Cherie Alf, Iowa State University
   • Rebecca Andridge, University of Michigan
   • Stephanie Eckman, University of Maryland
   • Xiaobi Huang, University of Michigan
   • Matt Jans, University of Michigan
   • Olena Kaminska, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
   • Vicky Landsman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
   • Minhui Paik, Iowa State University

E. C. Bryant Scholarship Award

1. 2009 Winner
   Qixuan Chen, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan

SRMS JSM Poster Awards

1. 2009 Poster Awards Winners
   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"

2. 2008 Poster Awards Winners
   First Place Winners (tie)
   
   • Van Parsons (National Center for Health Statistics) and Nathaniel Schenker (National Center for Health Statistics)
     "State and County Small-Area Estimation Using the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance System (BRFSS)"
   • William P. Mockovak (Bureau of Labor Statistics) and Randall Powers (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
     "The Use of Paradata for Evaluating Interviewer Training and Performance "
   Honorable Mention
   
   • Bethany A. Bell-Ellison (University of South Florida), John M. Ferron (University of South Florida), and Jeffrey D. Kromrey (University of South Florida)
     "Cluster Size in Multilevel Models: The Impact of Sparse Data Structures on Point and Interval Estimates in Two-Level Models"
   • Helbatollah Beghi (George Mason University), Teresa Panniers(George Mason University), and Mary Smolenski (American Nurses Credentialing Center)
     "State and County Smnall-Area Estimation Using the National Health inte "Application of Confirmatory Factor Analysis To Establish the Validity of a Pratice-Analyis Survey"
   • Danna L. Moore (Washington State University)
     "Bid Design and Its Influence on Stated Willingness To Pay and Participation in a Deposit Refund Program in a Survey of Nonrefillable Plastic Pesticide Users"

Waksberg Award

1. 2010 Winner: Ivan P. Fellegi, Chief Statistician Emiretus, Statistics Canada
2. 2002 Winner: Wayne Fuller, Professor Emeritus, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
3. 2001 Winner: Gad Nathan, Professor Emeritus, Department of Statistics, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Other Awareds

1. 2009 Student Paper Competition
   
   The Social Statistics, Government Statistics, and Survey Research Methods Sections announce a competition for student and postgraduate papers to be presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Washington, DC on August 2-6, 2009. At least five awards will be granted. Winning papers are presented by the authors at a JSM session and are recognized at the Sections' business meetings. A subsidy of up to $800 is provided to each winner in order to cover JSM 2009 expenses.
   
   The Winners
   • 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"