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Legend: = Applied Session, = Theme Session, = Presenter
Colorado Convention Center = “CC”, Hyatt = “HY”

186 Applied Session Mon, 8/4/08, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-103
Small-Area Estimates - Contributed - Papers
Section on Survey Research Methods, Section on Government Statistics, Social Statistics Section
Chair(s): Rachel M. Harter, National Opinion Research Center
    2:05 PM   The False Discovery Rate in ACS: Helping Users Understand Estimates for Small DomainsRobert E. Fay, Westat, Inc.
    2:20 PM   Spatial Modeling and Prediction of County-Level Employment Growth DataNadarajasundaram Ganesh, National Opinion Research Center
    2:35 PM   Small-Area Estimation for Alcohol Drinking Among TeenagersHsing-Yi Chang, National Health Research Institutes; Yu-Wen Wen, National Health Research Institutes
    2:50 PM   Hierarchical Model Selection Using a Benchmark DiscrepancyLu Lu, Iowa State University; Michael D. Larsen, Iowa State University
    3:05 PM   Further Developments in a Hierarchical Bayes Approach to Small-Area Estimation of Health Insurance Coverage: State-Level Estimates for Demographic GroupsSteven Riesz, U.S. Census Bureau; Mark Bauder, U.S. Census Bureau; Donald M. Luery, U.S. Census Bureau
    3:20 PM   The Connection Between Bayesian- and Resampling-Based Inference in Small-Area ModelsSnigdhansu Chatterjee, The University of Minnesota
     3:35 PM   Floor Discussion
 

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