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This is the preliminary program for the 2007 Joint Statistical
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The views expressed here are those of the individual authors and not necessarily those of the ASA or its board, officers, or staff. Back to main JSM 2007 Program page |
= Applied Session,
= Theme Session,
= Presenter| CE_11C | Sun, 7/29/07, 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM | CC-150 D-F |
| Modeling and Data Analysis for Complex Surveys - Continuing Education - Course | ||
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Section on Statistics and the Environment, Section on Survey Research Methods, ASA |
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| Instructor(s): Jay Breidt, Colorado State University, Jean Opsomer, Iowa State University | ||
| Survey data often arise from the efforts of institutions (like government agencies) to describe characteristics of a heterogeneous population in a cost-effective way. This is a hard problem, with many operational constraints on the methods that can be used. Typically, institutions use complex surveys, with stratification, clustering, and unequal probabilities, and those surveys suffer from different rates of nonresponse among different subgroups. Researchers working with complex survey data may be tempted to use the variety of statistical methods at their disposal to answer research questions, but those methods often are not appropriate unless the complexities of the survey are explicitly taken into account. This short course is aimed at researchers with a basic background in statistical theory (elementary probability, sampling properties of estimators, likelihood) and methods (point and interval estimation, hypothesis testing, regression analysis) who need to analyze complex survey data. No previous background in survey sampling is assumed. We review the features that make survey data complex, including design properties and post-sampling adjustments. We describe and compare model-based and design-based approaches to estimation and inference with complex survey data, review available software, and illustrate with example data sets. | ||
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JSM 2007
For information, contact jsm@amstat.org
or phone (888) 231-3473. If you have questions about the Continuing Education program,
please contact the Education Department. |