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Monday, 08/02/2010
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Comparison of Quadratic Inference Functions and Generalized Estimating Equations: Longitudinal Case Study of Act 1220 of 2003 Health Policy in Arkansas
Zoran Bursac, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences; D. Keith Williams, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences; Clinton Heath Gauss, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences; Page Moore, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences; Melanie E. Goodell, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences; Rebecca A. Krukowski, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences ; Delia Smith West, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences ; Martha M. Phillips, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences ; James M. Raczynski, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
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Application of Fuzzy Clustering and Discriminant Analysis to Identify Neighborhood Population Characteristics and Health Needs
Ashely Pedigo, University of Tennessee; William Seaver, University of Tennessee; Agricola Odoi, University of Tennessee
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Issues of Data Capacity and Statistical Quality to Support Health Care Modeling and Microsimulation Efforts
Joel Cohen, AHRQ
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How Government Statistics Make a Difference
Keith Hall, Bureau of Labor Statistics ; Munir Sheikh, Statistics Canada; Jil Matheson, UK Statistics Authority ; Brian Pink, Australian Bureau of Statistics; Cynthia Clark, National Agricultural Statistics Service
10:35 AM
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Making It Happen on the Ground: Practical Challenges with Administrative Records in the Health Policy Arena
Christine S. Cox, National Center for Health Statistics
10:55 AM
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Policy Impact of NHANES
Clifford Leroy Johnson, National Center for Health Statistics; Vicki L. Burt, CDC/NCHS
10:55 AM
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You Want It When?: Addressing Policy and Legal Issues
Kathleen M. Styles, U.S. Census Bureau
11:15 AM
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In Pursuit of Highly Qualified School Boards: Evidence from a National Survey of School Board Members and Superintendents
Mack Shelley, Iowa State University; Dai-Trang Le, Iowa State University
11:55 AM
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Tuesday, 08/03/2010
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Decisionmaking in Public Policy: Problems from DOT, FDA, and NASA
David Banks, Duke University
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Dollar for Dollar: Rating the Income Data from the American Community Survey
John Czajka, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
10:35 AM
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Overdiagnosis and the Will Rogers Effect: Bias in Risk Adjustment
Daniel Gottlieb, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice; Jason Sutherland, Centre for Health Services and Policy Research
10:35 AM
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Health Insurance Estimates from the ACS: The Ability to Detect Difference at Small Levels of Geography
Jeanette Ziegenfuss, Mayo Clinic; Michel Boudreaux, University of Minnesota, SHADAC
11:15 AM
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Bayesian Calibration of Microsimulation Models
Carolyn M. Rutter, Group Health Research Institute
11:25 AM
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Wednesday, 08/04/2010
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A Statistician at the Policy Table: Integrating Modeling in the Development of Public Health Guidelines
Ruth Etzioni, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
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Age-Specific Differences in the Epidemic Curves for Influenza A Virus: Do School Children Drive the Spread of Influenza Epidemics?
Dena Lynn Schanzer, Public Health Agency of Canada
8:50 AM
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ASA Members Engaging Congress
Daniel Rudoy, Harvard University; Sastry Pantula, North Carolina State University; Steve Pierson, ASA; Susan Hilsenbeck, Baylor College of Medicine
10:35 AM
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Cancer Risk in the Environment: Public Policy Issues in Screening
Karen Kafadar, Indiana University; Philip Prorok, National Cancer Institute
11:05 AM
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Houston Air Quality: The Interplay Between Statistics, Policy, and Politics
Katherine Bennett Ensor, Rice University
11:35 AM
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Balancing Individual Privacy with Access to Data for Policymaking
Stephen E. Fienberg , Carnegie Mellon University; Nancy M. Gordon, U.S. Census Bureau; Michael Lee Cohen, Committee on National Statistics; Tom Krenzke, Westat; Ed J. Christopher, Federal Highway Administration; Stephen Gunnells, The Planning Center
2:05 PM
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Policy and Communication Challenges for the 2020 Census
Christa Jones, U.S. Census Bureau
3:05 PM
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