This is the program for the 2010 Joint Statistical Meetings in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Activity Details

243 * ! Mon, 8/2/2010, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-222 (West)
Small-Area Estimation and Alternative Sampling Approaches for Survey Research — Contributed Papers
Section on Government Statistics , Social Statistics Section
Chair(s): Rita Petroni, U.S. Census Bureau
2:05 PM Bayesian Benchmarking with Applications to Small-Area Estimation Rebecca Carter Steorts, University of Florida ; Ghosh Malay, University of Florida ; Gauri Datta, The University of Georgia
2:20 PM Extended Structure-Preserving Estimation Method for Updating Small-Area Estimates of Poverty Marissa Cinco Isidro, Massey University ; Stephen John Haslett, Massey University ; Geoffrey Jones, Massey University
2:35 PM Stratification of a Sampling Frame with Auxiliary Data Into Piecewise Linear Segments by Means of a Genetic Algorithm Joseph James Barth, U.S. Census Bureau ; Yang Cheng, U.S. Census Bureau
2:50 PM Variance Estimation for Decision-Based Estimators with Application to the Annual Survey of Public Employment and Payroll Yang Cheng, U.S. Census Bureau ; Slud Eric, University of Maryland ; Carma Hogue, U.S. Census Bureau
3:05 PM Alternative Sample Approach for the Annual Survey of Public Employment and Payroll Casey Corcoran, U.S. Census Bureau ; Yang Cheng, U.S. Census Bureau
3:20 PM Alternatives to Cut-Off Sampling for a Family of Surveys Paula Ellen Mason, Energy Information Administration ; Benita Jean O'Colmain, ICF Macro ; Pedro Saavedra, ICF Macro ; Amerine Woodyard, Energy Information Administration ; Bin Zhang, Energy Information Administration
3:35 PM Estimating a Misclassification Probability in a Binomial Setting Patrick Lennon Kendall Zimmerman, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities ; Greg C. Liknes, U.S. Forest Service



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