JSM Activity #318

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Activity ID:  318
Title Room
Government Statistics, Social Statistics and Survey Research Methods Section Student Paper Awards H-Paulding
Date / Time Sponsor Type
08/09/2001    8:30 AM  -  10:20 AM Social Statistics Section*, Section on Government Statistics*, Section on Survey Research Methods* Topic Contributed
Organizer: Alan Zaslavsky, Harvard University
Chair: Alan Zaslavsky, Harvard University
Discussant:  
Floor Discussion 10:15 AM
Description

Three sections (Government, Social and Survey Research) cosponsored their first Student Paper Competition. Five of the six winning entries appear in this session. Papers concerning nonresponse in telephone surveys on analysis using propensity scores; nonresponse in telephone surveys on optimal allocation of nonrespondent callbacks; a new nonparametric model-assisted estimator for multiphase sampling; modeling, weighting and selection approaches for improving the validity of election forecasts based on polls and mixture models are presented for characterizing the distribution of household expenditures in the Russian Republic.
  300595  By:  Kristin Blenk 8:35 AM 08/09/2001
Using Propensity Scores to Control Coverage Bias in Telephone Surveys

  300665  By:  Jennifer Czuprynski 8:55 AM 08/09/2001
Balancing Survey Costs with Nonresponse Bias Using Callbacks in Telephone Surveys

  300620  By:  Ji-Yeon Kim 9:15 AM 08/09/2001
Local Polynomial Regression Estimation in Multiphase Sampling

  300601  By:  LinChiat Chang 9:35 AM 08/09/2001
Improving Election Forecasting

  300588  By:  Stanislav Kolenikov 9:55 AM 08/09/2001
Modeling of Expenditure Distribution by Lognormal Mixture

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