Online Program Home
  My Program
Legend:
CC = Baltimore Convention Center,    H = Hilton Baltimore
* = applied session       ! = JSM meeting theme

Activity Details


11 *
Sun, 7/30/2017, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-327
Environmental Surveys: A Hot Spot for Statisticians — Invited Papers
Government Statistics Section , Section on Statistics and the Environment , Survey Research Methods Section , Statistics Without Borders
Organizer(s): Stanislav Kolenikov, Abt Associates
Chair(s): Paul Schroeder, Abt Associates
2:05 PM Methodological Challenges of Environmental Surveys Compared with Human or Establishment Surveys David A Marker, Westat
2:30 PM Spatio-Temporal Balanced Sampling Design for Longitudinal Natural Resources Survey Zhengyuan Zhu, Iowa State University
2:55 PM Estimation of Marine Recreational Fishery Characteristics Using Survey and Logbook Data Jean Opsomer, Colorado State University ; Jay Breidt, Colorado State University ; Eric Hiltz, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
3:20 PM Discussant: Stanislav Kolenikov, Abt Associates
3:40 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

20 * !
Sun, 7/30/2017, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-328
Challenges and Opportunities in Major Survey Redesigns: Experiences from the SIPP, NHIS, and SDR — Topic Contributed Papers
Government Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Donsig Jang, NORC at the University of Chicago
Chair(s): Donsig Jang, NORC at the University of Chicago
2:05 PM Redesigning the National Health Interview Survey Questionnaire Stephen Blumberg, National Center for Health Statistics
2:25 PM Expanding the Survey of Doctorate Recipients Wan-Ying Chang, NSF/NCSES ; Daniel Foley, NSF/NCSES ; Karen Grigorian, NORC ; Michael Yang, NORC ; Lance Selfa, NORC
2:45 PM Re-Envisioning and Re-Building the Survey of Income and Program Participation Jason Fields, U.S. Census Bureau
3:05 PM Discussant: Patrick Cantwell, U.S. Census Bureau
3:25 PM Discussant: John Finamore, National Science Foundation
3:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

32
Sun, 7/30/2017, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-326
Measuring the Economy: Economic and Workforce Statistics — Contributed Papers
Government Statistics Section
Chair(s): Wendy Martinez, Bureau of Labor Statistics
2:05 PM Price Transmission Within the Producer Price Index Final Demand-Intermediate Demand Aggregation System Jonathan Weinhagen, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
2:20 PM A Longitudinal Analysis of PPI Response and Nonresponse Patterns Joseph Valentine, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
2:35 PM Audit Persistence in Correspondence Tax Examinations Anne Parker, Internal Revenue Service ; Julie Buckel, Internal Revenue Service
2:50 PM An Optimization Approach to Reconciling Sample Allocations David Piccone, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ; Matthew Dey, Bureau of Labor Statistics
3:05 PM Using Imputation to Reduce the Cost of Survey Collection in the Current Population Survey John Dixon, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
3:20 PM Model-Assisted Estimation of Proportions in Repeated Survey with Complex Rotation Pattern: Application to the Current Population Survey Daniel Bonnéry, University of Maryland
3:35 PM Assessing Product Downsizing, Upsizing, and Product Churn in the Consumer Price Index Using Nielsen Scanner Data Jenny FitzGerald, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
 
 

68
Sun, 7/30/2017, 4:00 PM - 5:50 PM CC-346
Government Health Statistics — Contributed Papers
Government Statistics Section
Chair(s): Jennifer Parker, National Center for Health Statistics
4:05 PM Latent Dirichlet Allocation Topic Models Applied to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Grant Portfolio Matthew Eblen, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ; Robin Wagner, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
4:20 PM Coverage Ratios of Selected Demographic and Socioeconomic Domains for the National Survey on Drug Use and Health Kathy Spagnola ; Jiantong Wang, RTI International ; Neeraja Sathe, RTI International ; Rebecca Ahrnsbrak, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
4:35 PM The Methuselah Effect: The Pernicious Effects of Unreported Deaths on Old-Age Mortality Estimates Lynne Schofield, Swarthmore College ; Dan Black, University of Chicago ; Seth Sanders, Duke University ; Lowell Taylor, Carnegie Mellon University ; Yu-Chieh Hsu, NORC
4:50 PM Real-Time Collection and Analysis of Big EHR Data to Enable Meaningful, Prospective Comparison of Medical Interventions Cynthia Hau, MAVERIC, Boston VA Healthcare System ; Sarah Leatherman, MAVERIC, Boston VA Healthcare System ; Nilla Majahalme, MAVERIC, Boston VA Healthcare System ; Amanda Guski, MAVERIC, Boston VA Healthcare System ; Jade Riotto, MAVERIC, Boston VA Healthcare System ; Ryan Ferguson, MAVERIC, Boston VA Healthcare System
5:05 PM Comparing Algorithmic Alerts Using Provisional Case Counts to Alerts Using Finalized Data--National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System Hong Zhou, CDC ; Howard Burkom, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory ; Ruth Jajosky, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ; Tara Strine, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
5:20 PM Arrival Time That Affect Wait Time in Hospital Emergency Departments: An Analysis of the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey Bill Cai, National Center for Health Statistics/CDC/HHS
5:35 PM A Hidden Markov Model for Analyzing Allele-Specific Copy Number Alteration Accounting for Hypersegmentation in Next Generation Sequencing Hyoyoung Choo-Wosoba, NIH/NCI-DCEG-Biostatistics Branch ; Paul S. Albert, National Cancer Institute/NIH ; Bin Zhu, NIH/NCI-DCEG-Biostatistics Branch
 
 

83
Sun, 7/30/2017, 8:30 PM - 10:30 PM CC-Halls A&B
Your Invited Poster Evening Entertainment: No Longer Board — Invited Poster Presentations
Astrostatistics Special Interest Group , Biometrics Section , Biopharmaceutical Section , Business and Economic Statistics Section , ENAR , Government Statistics Section , IMS , International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) , Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts , Section on Statistical Consulting , Section on Statistical Education , Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science , Section on Statistics and the Environment , Social Statistics Section , Survey Research Methods Section , Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics
Chair(s): Jessi Cisewski, Yale University
1: Overview of SAMSI Program on Statistical, Mathematical and Computational Methods for Astronomy (ASTRO) — Gutti Jogesh Babu, The Pennsylvania State University ; David Jones, SAMSI / Duke
2: A Multi-Resolution 3D Map of the Intergalactic Medium via the Lyman-Alpha Forest Collin Eubanks, Carnegie Mellon University ; Jessi Cisewski, Yale University ; Rupert Croft, Carnegie Mellon University ; Doug Nychka, National Center for Atmospheric Research ; Larry Wasserman, Carnegie Mellon
3: Testing Bayesian Galactic Mass Estimates Using Outputs from Hydrodynamical Simulations Gwendolyn Eadie, McMaster University ; Benjamin Keller, McMaster University ; William Harris, McMaster University ; Aaron Springford, Queen's University
4: Quantifying Discovery in Astro/Particle Physics: Frequentist and Bayesian Perspectives David Van Dyk, Imperial College London ; Sara Algeri, Imperial College London ; Jan Conrad, University of Stockholm
5: Computer Model Calibration to Enable Disaggregation of Large Parameter Spaces, with Application to Mars Rover Data David Craig Stenning, SAMSI/Duke University ; Working Group 1 ASTRO Program, SAMSI
6: The Association Between Copy Number Aberration, DNA Methylation, and Gene Expression Wei Sun, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
7: Rerandomization: a Flexible Framework for Experimental Design Kari Lock Morgan, Penn State University
8: IMs for IVs: An Inferential Model Approach to Instrumental Variable Regression Nicholas Aaron Syring, NCSU ; Ryan Martin, NCSU
9: Detecting Differential Gene Expression by Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Mingyao R Li, University of Pennsylvania ; Cheng Jia, University of Pennsylvania ; Nancy Ruonan Zhang, Wharton School , University of Pennsylvania
10: Statistical Science and Policy at the EPA Elizabeth Mannshardt, US Environmental Protection Agency
11: Approximate Message Passing Algorithms for High-Dimensional Regression Cynthia Rush, Columbia University
12: Generalized Fiducial Inference for High-Dimensional Data Jan Hannig, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Jonathan P Williams, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
13: The Combination of Confirmatory and Contradictory Statistical Evidence at Low Resolution Ruobin Gong, Harvard University ; Xiao-Li Meng, Harvard University
14: Approximate Confidence Distribution Computing: An Effective Likelihood-Free Method with Statistical Guarantees Suzanne Thornton, Rutgers University ; Minge Xie, Rutgers University
15: R Package TDA for Statistical Inference on Topological Data Analysis Jisu Kim, Carnegie Mellon University
16: Teaching a Large, Project-Based Statistical Consulting Class Emily Griffith, NC State University
17: Transforming Undergraduate Statistics Education Through Experiential Learning: It's Essential! Tracy Morris, University of Central Oklahoma ; Cynthia Murray, University of Central Oklahoma ; Tyler Cook, University of Central Oklahoma
18: The Geometry of Synchronization Problems and Learning Group Actions Tingran Gao, Duke University ; Jacek Brodzki, University of Southampton ; Sayan Mukherjee, Duke University
19: Sufficient Markov Decision Processes with Alternating Deep Neural Networks Longshaokan Wang, North Carolina State University ; Eric Laber, North Carolina State University ; Katie Witkiewitz, University of New Mexico
20: Optimal Dynamic Treatment Regimes Using Decision Lists Yichi Zhang, Harvard University ; Eric Laber, North Carolina State University ; Anastasios (Butch) Tsiatis, North Carolina State University ; Marie Davidian, North Carolina State University
21: Predicting Phenotypes from Microarrays Using Amplified, Initially Marginal, Eigenvector Regression — Lei Ding, Indiana University ; Daniel J. McDonald, Indiana University
22: Computer Vision Meets Television Taylor Arnold, University of Richmond ; Lauren Tilton, University of Richmond
23: Generalized Fiducial Inference for Nonparametric Function Estimation Randy C.S. Lai, University of Maine
24: A Phylogenetic Transform Enhances Analysis of Compositional Microbiota Data Justin David Silverman, Duke University ; Sayan Mukherjee, Duke University ; Lawrence A David, Duke University
25: Bayesian Multispecies Ecological Models for Paleoclimate Reconstruction Using Inverse Prediction John Tipton, Colorado State University ; Mevin Hooten, Colorado State University
26: Fast Maximum Likelihood Inference for Spatial Generalized Linear Mixed Models Yawen Guan, Penn State University ; Murali Haran, Pennsylvania State University
27: Fair Prediction with Disparate Impact: a Study of Bias in Recidivism Prediction Instruments Alexandra Chouldechova, Carnegie Mellon University
28: I Ran a Nonresponse Follow-Up Survey; Now What Do I Do? Phillip Kott, RTI
 
 

Register 84
Mon, 7/31/2017, 7:00 AM - 8:15 AM CC-Ballroom II
Government Statistics Section A.M. Roundtable Discussion (Added Fee) — Roundtables AM Roundtable Discussion
Government Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Gina Walejko, U.S. Census Bureau
ML01: Evolution of Public Sector Data Collections: Going Beyond Traditional Probability Sample Based Data Collection Donsig Jang, NORC at the University of Chicago
 
 

93 * !
Mon, 7/31/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-331/332
TRANScending Data Gaps: Advances in Transgender Research Using Survey and Administrative Data — Invited Papers
Government Statistics Section , ASA LGBT Concerns Committee , Social Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Darcy Miller, National Agricultural Statistics Service
Chair(s): Chris Haffer, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
8:35 AM Measuring Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the National Crime Victimization Survey Jennifer Truman, Bureau of Justice Statistics ; Rachel Morgan, Bureau of Justice Statistics ; Timothy Gilbert, U.S. Census Bureau ; Preeti Vaghela, U.S. Census Bureau
8:55 AM Identifying Trans Medicare Beneficiaries: Initial Results from CMS Administrative Claims Christina N Dragon, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ; Paul Guerino, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ; Alison Laffan, NORC at the University of Chicago ; Erin Ewald, NORC at the University of Chicago
9:15 AM What Transpired? A Matched-Pair Analysis of Trans and Non-Trans Medicare Beneficiaries Paul Guerino, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ; Christina Dragon, CMS Office of Minority Health ; Erin Ewald, NORC at the University of Chicago ; Alison Laffan, NORC at the University of Chicago
9:35 AM Measuring Transgender Health in the US: Findings from the 2015 US Trans Survey and the TransPop Project Jody Herman, Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law
9:55 AM Discussant: Karen Parker, National Institutes of Health
10:15 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

105 * !
Mon, 7/31/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-327
Recent Advancements and Remaining Challenges of Adaptive Design in Sample Surveys and Censuses — Invited Panel
Survey Research Methods Section , Social Statistics Section , Government Statistics Section , Statistics Without Borders
Organizer(s): Asaph Young Young Chun, US Census Bureau
Chair(s): James Lepkowski, University of Maryland
8:35 AM Recent Advancements and Remaining Challenges of Adaptive Design in Sample Surveys and Censuses
Panelists: Asaph Young Young Chun, US Census Bureau
Barry Schouten, Statistics Netherlands
Roger Tourangeau, Westat
Steven Heeringa, University of Michigan
10:10 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

118
Mon, 7/31/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-322
SPEED: Data Challenge — Contributed Speed
Government Statistics Section , Section on Statistical Computing , Section on Statistical Graphics
Chair(s): Thesia Garner, Bureau of Labor Statistics
8:35 AM Income and Expenditure in US Households: a Multivariate Analysis of Consumer Expenditure Fmli161 Dataset Mingzhao Hu, University of Wisconsin - Madison
8:40 AM Creation of a Web-Enabled Framework of a Taxonomy of Terms at the Bureau of Labor Statistics Randall Powers, US Bureau of Labor Statistics ; Daniel Gillman, Bureau of Labor Statistics
8:45 AM Consumer Spending and Federal Reserve Gaurav Sharma, The EMMES Corporation ; Bhanu Shandilya, Mixpanel ; Aditi Pradeep Sharma, UMBC
8:50 AM Correlating Alcohol and Tobacco Use with Socio-Economic Status and Human Capital Investment Dooti Roy, University of Connecticut ; Bibaswan Chatterjee, University of Buffalo
8:55 AM Effect of Mode Choice and Respondent Characteristics on Data Quality - Profiling Respondents to BEA's Annual Survey of Foreign Direct Investment in the United States Ricardo Limes, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
9:00 AM An Analysis of Consumer Budgeting and the Great Recession Robert Garrett, Miami University - Oxford, OH ; Thomas Fisher, Miami University ; Ritu Narahari, Miami University
9:05 AM CE-Based Consumer Expenditure Behaviors Study Zhicong Zhao, Mississippi State University ; Fuyuan Li, George Washington University
9:10 AM Rising to the Challenge: Winner from the BU MS in Statistical Practice Program Eric Kolaczyk, Boston University
9:15 AM Public Use vs. Restricted Use: a Case Study Using the American Community Survey Satkartar Kinney, RTI International ; Alan Karr, RTI International
9:20 AM Energy Expenditure Patterns in the United States Joyance Meechai
9:30 AM Interactive Visualization of Consumer Expenditure Public-Use Microdata Nathan James ; Jacquelyn Neal, Vanderbilt University
9:40 AM An Analysis of Selected Income and Expenditure Data by Education Level John Hanes, Regent University ; Edith Britton, Regent University ; Brian Collins, Regent University ; Senovia Cones, Regent University ; Lawrence Cooper, Regent University ; Emily Grad, Regent University ; Ashley Hall, Regent University ; Robin Robertson, Regent University ; Gloria Robinson-Sessoms, Regent University ; Destiny Simms, Regent University
9:45 AM Identification of Potentially Problematic Prescribing to a Vulnerable Population Ryan Jarrett ; Richard Epstein, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago ; Michael Cull, Vanderbilt University ; David Schlueter, Vanderbilt University ; Kathy Gracey, Vanderbilt University ; Molly Butler, Vanderbilt University ; Rameela Chandrasekhar, Vanderbilt University
9:50 AM Jointly Modeling the Patient and Consumer Centeredness of Health Care Spending — Frank Yoon, IBM Watson Health ; Eli Cutler, IBM Watson Health ; Brian Hochrein, IBM Watson Health ; Gary Pickens, IBM Watson Health ; Hal Skinner, IBM Watson Health ; Michael A Head, IBM Watson Health
9:55 AM Tracking Expenditures Michael Jadoo, Bureau of Labor Statistics
10:00 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

138
Mon, 7/31/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-318
Upcoming Changes to the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement — Invited Papers
Social Statistics Section , Government Statistics Section , Statistics and Public Policy
Organizer(s): Trudi Jane Renwick, U.S. Census Bureau
Chair(s): David G Waddington, U.S. Census Bureau
10:35 AM Processing Changes to the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement Jonathan Rothbaum, U.S. Census Bureau
11:00 AM Challenges in Measuring Health Insurance Coverage Jennifer Cheeseman Day, US Census Bureau ; Marina Vornovitsky, US Census Bureau
11:25 AM Evaluating the Revised Relationship Question — Jennifer M Ortman, U.S. Census Bureau ; Jonathan Vespa, U.S. Census Bureau ; Rose Kreider, US Census Bureau
11:50 AM All Our Kin? Measuring Poverty Using Alternative Family Configurations Trudi Jane Renwick, U.S. Census Bureau ; Laryssa Mykyta, University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley ; Ashley Edwards, U.S. Census Bureau
12:15 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

149 * !
Mon, 7/31/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-319
Advances in Modeling Multilevel Observational Data from Complex Surveys — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Survey Research Methods Section , Government Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Mulugeta Gebregziabher, MUSC
Chair(s): Christopher Swearingen, Samumed
10:35 AM Model-Based Standardization to Adjust for Unmeasured Cluster-Level Confounders with Complex Survey Data Babette Brumback, University of Florida ; Zhuangyu Cai, Roche
10:55 AM Modeling Count Data from a Complex Survey using Pseudo Maximum Likelihood Mulugeta Gebregziabher, MUSC ; Lin Dai, Medical University of South Carolina
11:15 AM Analysis of Multilevel Complex Survey Data: Comparison of Procedures from Several Software Lin Dai, Medical University of South Carolina ; Mulugeta Gebregziabher, MUSC
11:35 AM Poisson Cokriging as a Generalized Linear Mixed Model, Applications in Public Health Lynette Smith, University of Nebraska Medical Center
11:55 AM Discussant: Barry I. Graubard, National Cancer Institute
12:15 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

162
Mon, 7/31/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-326
SPEED: Government Statistics, Health Policy, and Marketing — Contributed Speed
Government Statistics Section , Health Policy Statistics Section , Section on Statistics in Marketing , Section on Bayesian Statistical Science , Social Statistics Section , Section on Statistics in Defense and National Security
Chair(s): Cynthia Rush, Columbia University
10:35 AM Using Interrupted Time Series to Examine the Validity of the Surveillance Definition of Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection in U.S. Hospitals Minn Soe, Surveillance Branch, DHQP, NCEZID, CDC
10:40 AM Comparisons of Calibration Methods for the RECS Engineering End-Use Estimates Shaofen Grace Deng, U.S. Energy Information Administration ; Greg Lawson , U.S. Energy Information Administration ; Chrishelle Lawrence, U.S. Energy Information Administration
10:45 AM Demonstrating the Usefulness of the National Hospital Care Survey to Track Patients Who Used Outpatient Department and Other Hospital Services Over Time Geoffrey Jackson, National Center for Health Statistics, CDC ; Margaret Hall, National Center for Health Statistics, CDC ; Alexander Schwartzman, National Center for Health Statistics, CDC
10:50 AM Imputing Water Consumption in Large Commercial Buildings in the 2012 CBECS Jay Olsen, EIA Dept of Energy
10:55 AM Methodologies for Clinical Trials Using Historical Control Yeh-Fong Chen, US Food and Drug Administration
11:00 AM Forced Migration: Visualizing Patterns of Refugee Movements Jacquelyn Neal, Vanderbilt University ; Hannah E Weeks, Vanderbilt University
11:05 AM Raking Weighting Methodology: Reweight Combined Multiple Years of Child Data, the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) Asthma Call-Back Survey Xiaoting Qin, Center for Disease Control Prevention ; Hatice S Zahran, Center for Disease Control Prevention ; Cathy M Bailey, Center for Disease Control Prevention
11:10 AM Beneath the Veneer of Healthcare Quality Measurement: Sample Size Estimation Adeline Wilcox, Retired
11:20 AM Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Disability Among Medicare Beneficiaries in Rural Communities: ACS 2012-2015 Loida Tamayo, CMS Office of Minortiy Health ; Shondelle Wilson-Frederick, CMS Office of Minority Health ; Elsa Haile, CMS Office of Minority Health ; Cara James, CMS Office of Minority Health
11:25 AM Child Abuse on Trial: a Statistical Analysis of Shaken Baby Syndrome Maria Cuellar, Carnegie Mellon University
11:30 AM A Terminal Trend Model for Longitudinal Medical Cost Data and Survival Qian Yang, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire ; Tor D. Tosteson, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire ; Anna N. A. Tosteson, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire ; Jeffrey C. Munson, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire ; Zhigang Li, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire
11:35 AM Quantifying the Value of Research: Identifying and Measuring Treatment Effect Modifiers Katherine Lofgren, Harvard University ; Daniel Kramer, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center ; Joshua Salomon, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ; Laura Anne Hatfield, Harvard Medical School
11:40 AM A Case Study in Adaptive LASSO Logistic Regression: Factors Related to Cyclist Death When Drivers Are Distracted Lysbeth Floden, University of Arizona ; Patrick Anthony O'Connor, University of Arizona ; Melanie Bell, University of Arizona
11:45 AM Biomarker-Based Cross-Sectional Incidence Estimation with Incomplete Data Douglas Ezra Morrison, UCLA ; Ron Brookmeyer, UCLA ; Oliver Laeyendecker, Johns Hopkins University ; Jacob Konikoff
11:50 AM An Integrated Analysis and Reporting System for Data Science Teams Iyue Sung, Press Ganey ; David Klotz, Press Ganey ; Jacob Cheng, Press Ganey ; Wei-Han Chen, Press Ganey ; Nikolas Matthes, Press Ganey ; Peggy Miller, Press Ganey
11:55 AM A Community and Node Attribute-Corrected Stochastic Blockmodel — Kristen M. Altenburger, Stanford University ; W. Philip Kegelmeyer, Sandia National Laboratories ; Ali Pinar, Sandia National Laboratories ; Jeremy D. Wendt, Sandia National Laboratorie ; Cliff Anderson-Bergman, Sandia National Laboratories
12:00 PM Analysis of the Australian Election Study Using Bayesian Quantile Regression Models Charles Au, University of Sydney ; S. T. Boris Choy, University of Sydney
12:05 PM AARP 2016 Master Model Building and Validation Renting Xu, AARP ; Jared Weiss, AARP, Inc ; Paul Maiste, Lityx,LLC ; Jerrod Begora, Lityx,LLC ; Roger Marcus, Lityx,LLC
12:10 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

181
Mon, 7/31/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-Halls A&B
Contributed Poster Presentations: Government Statistics Section — Contributed Poster Presentations
Government Statistics Section
Chair(s): Jessi Cisewski, Yale University
48: Deriving Parent-Child Pair Weights for the National Health Interview Survey Data Guangyu Zhang, National Center for Health Statistics ; Yulei He, National Center for Health Statistics ; Nathaniel Schenker, Retired ; Van Parsons, National Center for Health Statistics
49: Time Series Reconciliation: a Least-Squares Solution for the Case of High-Frequency Series Exceeding the Period Covered by the Low-Frequency Series Luis Frank
50: Accounting for Data Collection Mode in Hot Deck Imputation Jiantong Wang, RTI International ; Peter Frechtel, RTI International ; Amang Sukasih, RTI International ; David Kinyon, U.S. Energy Information Administration
51: Visual Validation of Estimates from the Occupation Requirements Survey Lacoya Theus, Bureau of Labor Statistics ; Andrew Kato, Bureau of Labor Statistics
52: Classification-Based Uncertainty in Estimating Surveillance-Based Prevalence Clinton Alverson, CDC/NCBDDD/DCDD/BDB
53: Combining Survey and Non-Survey Data Sources to Improve Estimated Counts of Certain Work-Related Injuries Brooks Pierce, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
55: Statistical Considerations of Adhesion Data Analysis in NDA Yu-Ting Weng, FDA ; Caroline Strasinger, FDA ; Meiyu Shen, C DER, FDA
56: Generic Areas and Small Area Estimates for Subnational Estimation on the National Crime Victimization Survey Philip Lee, RTI ; Marcus Berzofsky, RTI International ; Lynn Langton, Bureau of Justice Statistics ; Michael Planty, RTI International
57: Revisiting the 2009 Iranian Presidential Election: Is There Evidence of Electoral Unfairness? Ole Forsberg, Knox College
58: A Natural Language Processing Approach to Content Analysis of Survey Responses Mary Ann Guadagno, National Inst of Health ; Charles Dumais, NIH/Center for Scientific Review ; Calvin A. Johnson, NIH/Center for Information Technology ; Daniel Russ, NIH/Center for Information Technology
59: Using Random Survival Forest Modeling to Predict Research and Career Outcomes for the National Institutes of Health's Medical Scientist Training Program Trainees Katie Patel, National Institutes of Health, Office of Extramural Research ; Deepshikha Roychowdhury, National Institute of Health, Office of Extramural Research ; Katrina Pearson, National Institutes of Health, Office of Extramural Research
60: An analysis of vehicle purchase behavior of US households Jijia Wang, Southern Methodist University ; Lynne Stokes, Southern Methodist University ; Hon Keung Tony Ng, Southern Methodist University ; Shuang (Nancy) Li, Southern Methodist University ; Linh Hoang Nghiem, Southern Methodist University ; Rongxiao Huang, Southern Methodist University
 
 

182
Mon, 7/31/2017, 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM CC-Halls A&B
SPEED: Data Challenge — Contributed Poster Presentations
Government Statistics Section , Section on Statistical Computing , Section on Statistical Graphics
Chair(s): Jessi Cisewski, Yale University
1: Income and Expenditure in US Households: a Multivariate Analysis of Consumer Expenditure Fmli161 Dataset Mingzhao Hu, University of Wisconsin - Madison
2: Rising to the Challenge: Winner from the BU MS in Statistical Practice Program Eric Kolaczyk, Boston University
3: Public Use vs. Restricted Use: a Case Study Using the American Community Survey Satkartar Kinney, RTI International ; Alan Karr, RTI International
4: Household Energy Expenditure and Consumption Patterns in the United States Joyance Meechai
5: Interactive Visualization of Consumer Expenditure Public-Use Microdata Nathan James ; Jacquelyn Neal, Vanderbilt University
7: An Analysis of Selected Income and Expenditure Data by Education Level John Hanes, Regent University ; Edith Britton, Regent University ; Brian Collins, Regent University ; Senovia Cones, Regent University ; Lawrence Cooper, Regent University ; Emily Grad, Regent University ; Ashley Hall, Regent University ; Robin Robertson, Regent University ; Gloria Robinson-Sessoms, Regent University ; Destiny Simms, Regent University
8: Identification of Potentially Problematic Prescribing to a Vulnerable Population Ryan Jarrett ; Richard Epstein, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago ; Michael Cull, Vanderbilt University ; David Schlueter, Vanderbilt University ; Kathy Gracey, Vanderbilt University ; Molly Butler, Vanderbilt University ; Rameela Chandrasekhar, Vanderbilt University
9: Jointly Modeling the Patient and Consumer Centeredness of Health Care Spending — Frank Yoon, IBM Watson Health ; Eli Cutler, IBM Watson Health ; Brian Hochrein, IBM Watson Health ; Gary Pickens, IBM Watson Health ; Hal Skinner, IBM Watson Health ; Michael A Head, IBM Watson Health
10: Tracking Expenditures Michael Jadoo, Bureau of Labor Statistics
11: Creation of a Web-Enabled Framework of a Taxonomy of Terms at the Bureau of Labor Statistics Randall Powers, US Bureau of Labor Statistics ; Daniel Gillman, Bureau of Labor Statistics
12: Consumer Spending and Federal Reserve Gaurav Sharma, The EMMES Corporation ; Bhanu Shandilya, Mixpanel ; Aditi Pradeep Sharma, UMBC
13: Correlating Alcohol and Tobacco Use with Socio-Economic Status and Human Capital Investment Dooti Roy, University of Connecticut ; Bibaswan Chatterjee, University of Buffalo
14: Effect of Mode Choice and Respondent Characteristics on Data Quality - Profiling Respondents to BEA's Annual Survey of Foreign Direct Investment in the United States Ricardo Limes, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
15: An Analysis of Consumer Budgeting and the Great Recession Robert Garrett, Miami University - Oxford, OH ; Thomas Fisher, Miami University ; Ritu Narahari, Miami University
16: CE-Based Consumer Expenditure Behaviors Study Zhicong Zhao, Mississippi State University ; Fuyuan Li, George Washington University
The Speed portion will take place during Session 214445
 
 

Register 188
Mon, 7/31/2017, 12:30 PM - 1:50 PM CC-Ballroom II
Government Statistics Section P.M. Roundtable Discussion (Added Fee) — Roundtables PM Roundtable Discussion
Government Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Gina Walejko, U.S. Census Bureau
ML14: What Is the Future of the Sample Survey for Government Statistics? Peter Miller, US Census Bureau
 
 

215 * !
Mon, 7/31/2017, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-321
What Role Should Statistics and Statisticians Play in Environmental Policy and Regulation? — Invited Panel
Section on Statistics and the Environment , Section on Statistical Consulting , Government Statistics Section , Statistics Without Borders
Organizer(s): Megan Higgs, Neptune and Company, Inc.
Chair(s): Megan Higgs, Neptune and Company, Inc.
2:05 PM What Role Should Statistics and Statisticians Play in Environmental Policy and Regulation?
Panelists: Lara P. Phelps, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of the Science Advisor
James V. Zidek, Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia
Paul Black, Neptune & Company, Inc.
Steven P. Millard, Probability, Statistics, & Information
Kirk Cameron, MacStat Consulting, Ltd.
Veronica J Berrocal, University of Michigan
3:40 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

222 !
Mon, 7/31/2017, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-343
Administrative Record Research for the 2020 Census — Topic Contributed Papers
Government Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Vincent Thomas Mule, U.S. Census Bureau
Chair(s): Howard Hogan, U.S. Census Bureau
2:05 PM A Comparison of Training Modules for Administrative Records Use in Nonresponse Followup Operations: The 2010 Census and the American Community Survey Hubert Janicki, U.S. Census Bureau ; Melissa Chow, U.S. Census Bureau ; Moises Yi, U.S. Census Bureau ; Lawrence Warren, U.S. Census Bureau ; Mark Kutzbach, U.S Census Bureau
2:25 PM Exploring Differences in Occupancy Status Between Administrative Records and 2010 Census Results Andrew Keller, U.S. Census Bureau
2:45 PM Using a Child-To-Parent Linking Dataset in Administrative Records Modeling for Census Nonresponse Followup Scott Konicki
3:05 PM Undeliverable-As-Addressed Mail Research for Vacant and Non-Existent Housing Unit Identification Ingrid Kjeldgaard, U.S. Census Bureau
3:25 PM Alternative Methods for Selecting Households for Administrative Record Enumeration in Place of Nonresponse Follow-Up for the 2020 Census Richard Griffin, U.S. Census Bureau
3:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

232
Mon, 7/31/2017, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-345
From Ranch to Rain: Government Statistics on Agriculture and Weather — Contributed Papers
Government Statistics Section
Chair(s): Jacob Enriquez, NHTSA
2:05 PM An Assessment of Four Bridging Options of Agricultural Producer Demographics for the 2012 and 2017 Census of Agriculture David Biagas, USDA/NASS
2:20 PM The Effects of Currently Reported Data on Data Quality: An Analysis of the Agricultural Labor Survey Emilola Abayomi, USDA/NASS ; Heather Ridolfo, USDA/NASS
2:35 PM Capture-Recapture Estimation of Local Food Farms in the United States Michael Hyman, USDA-NASS
2:50 PM Design Weight and Calibration Kelly Toppin, National Agricultural Statistics Service ; Luca Sartore, National Institute of Statistical Sciences ; Clifford Spiegelman, Texas A&M University
3:05 PM Estimation of Capture Probabilities by Accounting for Sample Designs Jonathon Abernethy ; Luca Sartore, National Institute of Statistical Sciences ; Habtamu Benecha, USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service ; Clifford Spiegelman, Texas A&M University
3:20 PM Weather Adjustment of Economic Data - Beyond Seasonal Adjustment Steve Matthews, Statistics Canada ; Zdenek Patak, Statistics Canada
3:35 PM Stochastic Seasonality, Contemporaneous Inference, and Forecasting in the Presence of More Volatile Weather William Wei-Choun Yu, UCLA Anderson School of Management ; Jerry Nickelsburg, UCLA Anderson School of Management
 
 

253
Mon, 7/31/2017, 3:05 PM - 3:50 PM CC-Halls A&B
SPEED: Government Statistics, Health Policy, and Marketing — Contributed Poster Presentations
Government Statistics Section , Health Policy Statistics Section , Section on Statistics in Marketing , Section on Bayesian Statistical Science , Social Statistics Section , Section on Statistics in Defense and National Security
Chair(s): Jessi Cisewski, Yale University
15: Using Interrupted Time Series to Examine the Validity of the Surveillance Definition of Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection in U.S. Hospitals Minn Soe, Surveillance Branch, DHQP, NCEZID, CDC
16: Comparisons of Calibration Methods for the RECS Engineering End-Use Estimates Shaofen Grace Deng, U.S. Energy Information Administration ; Greg Lawson , U.S. Energy Information Administration ; Chrishelle Lawrence, U.S. Energy Information Administration
17: Demonstrating the Usefulness of the National Hospital Care Survey to Track Patients Who Used Outpatient Department and Other Hospital Services Over Time Geoffrey Jackson, National Center for Health Statistics, CDC ; Margaret Hall, National Center for Health Statistics, CDC ; Alexander Schwartzman, National Center for Health Statistics, CDC
18: Imputing Water Consumption in Large Commercial Buildings in the 2012 CBECS Jay Olsen, EIA Dept of Energy
19: Methodologies for Clinical Trials Using Historical Control Yeh-Fong Chen, US Food and Drug Administration
20: Forced Migration: Visualizing Patterns of Refugee Movements Jacquelyn Neal, Vanderbilt University ; Hannah E Weeks, Vanderbilt University
21: Raking Weighting Methodology: Reweight Combined Multiple Years of Child Data, the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) Asthma Call-Back Survey Xiaoting Qin, Center for Disease Control Prevention ; Hatice S Zahran, Center for Disease Control Prevention ; Cathy M Bailey, Center for Disease Control Prevention
22: Beneath the Veneer of Healthcare Quality Measurement: Sample Size Estimation Adeline Wilcox, Retired
23: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Disability Among Medicare Beneficiaries in Rural Communities: ACS 2012-2015 Loida Tamayo, CMS Office of Minortiy Health ; Shondelle Wilson-Frederick, CMS Office of Minority Health ; Elsa Haile, CMS Office of Minority Health ; Cara James, CMS Office of Minority Health
24: Child Abuse on Trial: a Statistical Analysis of Shaken Baby Syndrome Maria Cuellar, Carnegie Mellon University
25: A Terminal Trend Model for Longitudinal Medical Cost Data and Survival Qian Yang, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire ; Tor D. Tosteson, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire ; Anna N. A. Tosteson, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire ; Jeffrey C. Munson, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire ; Zhigang Li, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire
26: Quantifying the Value of Research: Identifying and Measuring Treatment Effect Modifiers Katherine Lofgren, Harvard University ; Daniel Kramer, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center ; Joshua Salomon, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ; Laura Anne Hatfield, Harvard Medical School
27: A Case Study in Adaptive LASSO Logistic Regression: Factors Related to Cyclist Death When Drivers Are Distracted Lysbeth Floden, University of Arizona ; Patrick Anthony O'Connor, University of Arizona ; Melanie Bell, University of Arizona
28: Biomarker-Based Cross-Sectional Incidence Estimation with Incomplete Data Douglas Ezra Morrison, UCLA ; Ron Brookmeyer, UCLA ; Oliver Laeyendecker, Johns Hopkins University ; Jacob Konikoff
29: An Integrated Analysis and Reporting System for Data Science Teams Iyue Sung, Press Ganey ; David Klotz, Press Ganey ; Jacob Cheng, Press Ganey ; Wei-Han Chen, Press Ganey ; Nikolas Matthes, Press Ganey ; Peggy Miller, Press Ganey
30: A Community and Node Attribute-Corrected Stochastic Blockmodel — Kristen M. Altenburger, Stanford University ; W. Philip Kegelmeyer, Sandia National Laboratories ; Ali Pinar, Sandia National Laboratories ; Jeremy D. Wendt, Sandia National Laboratorie ; Cliff Anderson-Bergman, Sandia National Laboratories
31: Analysis of the Australian Election Study Using Bayesian Quantile Regression Models Charles Au, University of Sydney ; S. T. Boris Choy, University of Sydney
32: AARP 2016 Master Model Building and Validation Renting Xu, AARP ; Jared Weiss, AARP, Inc ; Paul Maiste, Lityx,LLC ; Jerrod Begora, Lityx,LLC ; Roger Marcus, Lityx,LLC
The Speed portion will take place during Session 214530
 
 

214979
Tue, 8/1/2017, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM CC-305
Government Statistics Section Executive Committee Meeting (Closed) — Other Cmte/Business
Government Statistics Section
Chair(s): Marilyn Seastrom, NCES/U.S. Department of Education
 
 

283
Tue, 8/1/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-320
GSS/SSS/SRMS Student Paper Award Presentations — Topic Contributed Papers
Social Statistics Section , Government Statistics Section , Survey Research Methods Section
Organizer(s): Stanislav Kolenikov, Abt Associates
Chair(s): Stanislav Kolenikov, Abt Associates
8:35 AM A Joint Spatial Factor Analysis Model to Accommodate Data from Misaligned Nested Areal Units with Application to Louisiana Social Vulnerability Rachel Nethery ; Dale P. Sandler, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ; Shanshan Zhao, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ; Lawrence S. Engel, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Richard K. Kwok, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
8:55 AM A Robust Interrupted Time Series Model for Analyzing Complex Healthcare Intervention Data Maricela Cruz ; Hernando Ombao, KAUST and UC Irvine ; Miriam Bender, University of California, Irvine
9:15 AM Stable Balancing Weights for Marginal Structural Models María de los Angeles Resa Juárez, Columbia University ; José R. Zubizarreta, Columbia University
9:35 AM Checking Validity of Constrained Survey Estimators Cristian Oliva, Colorado State University ; Mary Meyer, Colorado State University ; Jean Opsomer, Colorado State University
9:55 AM Comparative Study of Differentially Private Data Synthesis Methods Claire McKay Bowen, University of Notre Dame ; Fang Liu, University of Notre Dame
10:15 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

286 * !
Tue, 8/1/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-325
Tracking and Evaluating Quality on the Road to a Redesigned Consumer Expenditure Survey — Topic Contributed Papers
Government Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Laura Erhard, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Chair(s): John Dixon, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
8:35 AM Monetary Incentives in the Consumer Expenditure Interview Survey: An Assessment of Data Quality Ian Elkin, Bureau of Labor Statistics ; Brett McBride, Bureau of Labor Statistics ; Barry Steinberg, Bureau of Labor Statistics
8:55 AM Statistical Examination of Rounding Tendencies in the Consumer Expenditure Interview Survey Taylor Wilson, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ; Safia Abdirizak, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
9:15 AM Evaluating Quality in CE's Proof of Concept Test Laura Erhard, Bureau of Labor Statistics ; Brett McBride, Bureau of Labor Statistics ; Yezzi Lee, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ; Safia Abdirizak, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
9:35 AM Developing a Data Quality Profile for the Consumer Expenditure Survey: Interim Progress and Challenges Yezzi Lee, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ; Lucilla Tan, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
9:55 AM Discussant: Parvati Krishnamurty, Bureau of Labor Statistics
10:15 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

319 * !
Tue, 8/1/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-321
The New Multiple Data Sources Paradigm for Federal Statistics: Progress and Prospects — Invited Panel
Government Statistics Section , Committee on National Statistics, NAS , Social Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Carol C. House, Committee on National Statistics - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
Chair(s): Constance F. Citro, Committee on National Statistics - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
10:35 AM The New Multiple Data Sources Paradigm for Federal Statistics: Progress and Prospects
Panelists: Robert Groves, Georgetown University
Amy O'Hara, Stanford University
Premkumar Natarajan, University of Southern California
Jerry Reiter, Department of Statistical Science, Duke University
12:10 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

346
Tue, 8/1/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-313
Measuring and Improving the Quality of Government Statistics — Contributed Papers
Government Statistics Section
Chair(s): Michael Davern, NORC at the University of Chicago
10:35 AM Impact of Persistent Type II Error on Data Quality in Periodic Survey Editing Methods Brock Webb, U.S. Census Bureau ; Chin-Fang Weng, U.S. Census Bureau
10:50 AM Quantifying Aggregation Bias in Mortality Trends Jonathan Auerbach ; Andrew Gelman, Columbia Unversity
11:05 AM Using a Follow-Up Panel Survey to Evaluate Match Status of a Mortality Linkage Algorithm Clinton Thompson, NCHS/CDC ; Jerrod Anderson, AHRQ ; Steven Machlin , Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality ; Lisa B Mirel, CDC/NCHS/OAE/SPB
11:20 AM Predicting Industry Output with Statistical Learning Methods Peter Meyer, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ; Wendy Martinez, Bureau of Labor Statistics
11:35 AM Calibration for Domain Totals for Business Surveys Geoffrey Logan, Statistics Canada ; Leon Jang, Statistics Canada ; Michael A. Hidiroglou, Statistics Canada
11:50 AM Measurement of Chain Drift in the Chained Consumer Price Index Joshua Klick, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
12:05 PM Practical and Theoretical Considerations of Panel Effects for the Current Population Survey's Composite Estimator Greg Erkens, Bureau of Labor Statistics
 
 

381 *
Tue, 8/1/2017, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-310
Improper Imputation — Invited Papers
Survey Research Methods Section , Government Statistics Section , Social Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Paul T von Hippel, University of Texas
Chair(s): Minsun Riddles, Westat
2:05 PM Maximum Likelihood Multiple Imputation: a More Efficient Approach to Repairing and Analyzing Incomplete Data Paul T von Hippel, University of Texas
2:35 PM Fractional Imputation for Dummies Jae-kwang Kim, Iowa State University
3:05 PM Hot Deck Imputation: Proper or Improper? Rebecca Andridge, Ohio State University
3:35 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

394 * !
Tue, 8/1/2017, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-319
Time Series, Reconciliation, and National Statistics — Topic Contributed Papers
Government Statistics Section
Organizer(s): James Livsey, U.S. Census Bureau
Chair(s): Thomas Evans, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
2:05 PM Automated Balancing in the United Kingdom: a New Approach Joshua Abramsky, Office for National Statistics ; Neil Parkin, Office for National Statistics ; Craig McLaren, Office for National Statistics
2:25 PM Moving Holidays in Transportation Data Series Theresa Firestine, US Department of Transportation
2:45 PM Simultaneous Reconciliation of Large Disaggregated Time Series of U.S. Input-Output Accounts After a Benchmark Revision Baoline Chen, Bureau of Economic Analysis ; Tommaso Di Fonzo, University of Padova ; Thomas Howells, Bureau of Economic Analysis ; Marco Marini, International Monetary Fund
3:05 PM Seasonal Adjustment Subject to Accounting Constraints Tucker McElroy, U. S. Census Bureau
3:25 PM Anticipating Brexit Effects in Time Series Analysis Charlotte Gaughan, Office for National Statistics ; Atanaska Nikolovo, Office for National Statistics
3:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

214980
Tue, 8/1/2017, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM CC-306
Government Statistics Section Business Meeting — Other Cmte/Business
Government Statistics Section
Chair(s): Marilyn Seastrom, NCES/U.S. Department of Education
 
 

Register 429
Wed, 8/2/2017, 7:00 AM - 8:15 AM CC-Ballroom II
Government Statistics Section A.M. Roundtable Discussion (Added Fee) — Roundtables AM Roundtable Discussion
Government Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Gina Walejko, U.S. Census Bureau
WL01: Publication Options for Producers of Official Statistics Kirsten West, Unaffiliated
 
 

437 *
Wed, 8/2/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-340
Session in Honor of Jim Lepkowski's Retirement — Invited Papers
Survey Research Methods Section , Social Statistics Section , Government Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Michael R. Elliott, University of Michigan
Chair(s): Michael R. Elliott, University of Michigan
8:35 AM The Role of the Sampling Program for Survey Statisticians in Training Statisticians Around the Globe Mahmoud Elkasabi, ICF ; Raphael Nishimura, Abt Associates
9:00 AM A Substitution Procedure for Missing Not at Random Mechanism Raphael Nishimura, Abt Associates
9:25 AM Small Area Estimation by Combining Two Surveys with Special Consideration of Cell Only Households Dawei Xie, University of Pennsylvania ; Qiang Pan ; Van Parsons, National Center for Health Statistics ; Trivellore Raghunathan, University of Michigan School of Public Health ; Benmei Liu, National Cancer Institute ; Eric Feuer, National Cancer Institute ; Nathaniel Schenker, Retired
9:50 AM Interviewer Effects on Racially-Sensitive Questions and Biomeasures: Results from a Semi-Interpenetrated Design Matt Jans, Abt Associates ; Trivellore Raghunathan, University of Michigan School of Public Health ; Mick P. Couper, Michigan Program in Survey Methodology
10:15 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

454 * !
Wed, 8/2/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-343
Advances in Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Methodology with Applications to Official Statistics — Topic Contributed Papers
Government Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Scott H. Holan, University of Missouri
Chair(s): Patrick McDermott, University of Missouri
8:35 AM Multivariate Spatio-Temporal Survey Fusion with Application to the American Community Survey and Local Area Unemployment Statistics Scott H. Holan, University of Missouri ; Jonathan R Bradley, Florida State University ; Christopher Wikle, University of Missouri
8:55 AM Estimating Distributions for Populations Within Nested Geographies with Public-Use Data Matthew Simpson, University of Missouri - Columbia ; Scott H. Holan, University of Missouri ; Christopher Wikle, University of Missouri ; Jonathan R Bradley, Florida State University
9:15 AM Generating Partially Synthetic Geocoded Public-Use Data with Decreased Disclosure Risk Using Differential Smoothing Harrison Quick, Drexel University ; Scott H. Holan, University of Missouri ; Christopher Wikle, University of Missouri
9:35 AM A Model Selection Study for Spatio-Temporal Change of Support Andrew Raim, U.S. Census Bureau ; Scott H. Holan, University of Missouri ; Jonathan R Bradley, Florida State University ; Christopher Wikle, University of Missouri
9:55 AM Hierarchical Models for Spatial Data with Errors That Are Correlated with the Latent Process Jonathan R Bradley, Florida State University ; Christopher Wikle, University of Missouri ; Scott H. Holan, University of Missouri
10:15 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

469
Wed, 8/2/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-344
Official Statistics: Policy and Practice — Contributed Papers
Government Statistics Section
Chair(s): Michael Brewster Hawes, U.S. Department of Education
8:35 AM Extracting Statistical Offices from Policy Making Bodies to Buttress Official Statistical Production Andreas Georgiou, Consultant-Official Statistics
8:50 AM Measuring, Managing and Reporting Respondent Burden at the Office for National Statistics, UK Adam Tucker, Office for National Statistics
9:05 AM A Discrete-Time Microsimulation Model of the 2016 Canadian Census Collection Operations: An Innovative Method for Responsive Design and Cost Control Vincent Martin, Statistics Canada
9:20 AM Paradata During the 2016 Canadian Census of Population at Statistics Canada: Analyzing the Behavior of Respondents Marie-Pier Lemieux, Statistics Canada
9:35 AM Developing Response Metrics for the Economic Census Justin Ward ; Diane K Willimack, United States Census Bureau
9:50 AM Developing Variance Estimates for Products in the Economic Census Jeremy Knutson, U.S. Census Bureau ; Matthew Thompson, U.S. Census Bureau ; Katherine Thompson, U.S. Census Bureau
10:05 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

508
Wed, 8/2/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-344
Administrative Records and Record Linkage — Contributed Papers
Government Statistics Section
Chair(s): Amy O'Hara, Stanford University
10:35 AM Linking Survey and Administrative Data with Incomplete Identifying Information Marc Roemer, AHRQ ; Cordell Golden, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) ; Lisa B Mirel, CDC/NCHS/OAE/SPB ; Adam Fedorowicz, NCHS ; Jennifer Sayers, NCHS
10:50 AM Preliminary Research for Replacing or Supplementing the Self-Employment Income Question on the American Community Survey with Administrative Records Jessica Majercik, U.S. Census Bureau
11:05 AM What Housing Assistance Support Recipients Report as Rent and How They Sort Out, as Indicated by Record Linkage W. Kingkade, U.S. Census Bureau
11:20 AM Evaluating Alternative Comparison Groups for Recipients of Federal Housing Assistance Using the NHIS-HUD Linked Data Patricia Calderon Lloyd, National Center for Health Statistics ; Veronica E. Helms, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ; Jon Sperling, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ; Lisa B Mirel, CDC/NCHS/OAE/SPB
11:35 AM Innovative Applications for Linking Health Survey Data to Vital and Administrative Data Lisa B Mirel, CDC/NCHS/OAE/SPB ; Cordell Golden, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
11:50 AM Using Administrative Data Proactively to Aid in Data Collection for New Respondent Panels for the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey Bradley Parsell, NORC ; Andrea Mayfield, NORC ; Christopher Ward, NORC ; Rebecca Reimer, NORC ; Tricia McCarthy, NORC ; Sai Loganathan, NORC ; Rachel Carnahan, NORC ; Kari Carris, NORC ; Felicia LeClere, NORC ; Cheryl L. Sharpless, CMS
12:05 PM Innovative Uses of Administrative Data: Analysis of Medicare Beneficiaries with Sickle Cell Disease Shondelle Wilson-Frederick, CMS Office of Minority Health ; Carla Hodge, CMS Office of Minority Health
 
 

509
Wed, 8/2/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-345
Methodological Innovations and Applications in Government Statistics — Contributed Papers
Government Statistics Section
Chair(s): Gina Walejko, U.S. Census Bureau
10:35 AM Statistical Disclosure Control via Sufficiency Under the Multiple Linear Regression Model Martin Klein, U.S. Census Bureau ; Gauri Datta, University of Georgia and US Census Bureau
10:50 AM Combination of Multiplicative Noise and Conditional Group Swapping to Protect Sensitive Survey Data from Disclosure Anna Oganian, National Center for Health Statistics
11:05 AM Electronic Data Collection and Corresponding Reduction in Edit Rates in the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs Elizabeth Goldberg, U.S. Census Bureau
11:20 AM Edit Reduction: Identifying Possible Stopping Points and Moving Toward Adaptive Design Techniques Lisa Kaili Diamond, US Census Bureau ; Justin Nguyen, U.S. Census Bureau ; Brian Arthur Dumbacher, U.S. Census Bureau
11:35 AM TEST DIAGNOSTIC as TRUTH SURROGATE Anthony Mucci, FDA
11:50 AM Bayesian Modeling of Uncertainties in End-Use Electricity Consumption Amounts Inferences Hiroaki Minato, U. S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
12:05 PM Restricted Multinomial Regression for a Triple-System Estimation with List Dependence Luca Sartore, National Institute of Statistical Sciences ; Habtamu Benecha, USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service ; Kelly Toppin, National Agricultural Statistics Service ; Clifford Spiegelman, Texas A&M University
 
 

Register 534
Wed, 8/2/2017, 12:30 PM - 1:50 PM CC-Ballroom II
CANCELLED: Government Statistics Section P.M. Roundtable Discussion (Added Fee) — Roundtables PM Roundtable Discussion
Government Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Gina Walejko, U.S. Census Bureau
 
 

550 * !
Wed, 8/2/2017, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-344
Differential Privacy in Statistical Agencies: Present and Future — Invited Papers
Government Statistics Section , Business and Economic Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Lars Vilhuber, Cornell University
Chair(s): Aleksandra Slavkovic, Pennsylvania State University
2:05 PM Experiences with Differentially Private Geocoded Administrative Data Jörg Drechsler, Institute for Employment Research ; Jordi Soria-Comas, Universitat Rovira i Virgili
2:30 PM Differential Private Sign and Significance for Regression Coefficients Andres Felipe Barrientos, Duke University ; Jerry Reiter, Department of Statistical Science, Duke University ; Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Duke University ; Yan Chen, Duke University
2:55 PM Formal Privacy Methods Come to the U.S. Census Bureau's Flagship Products John M Abowd, U.S. Census Bureau
3:20 PM Discussant: Joshua Snoke, Pennsylvania State University
3:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

564 * !
Wed, 8/2/2017, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-347
Statistical Integrity of Health Services: Detecting Fraud and Improving Data Quality — Topic Contributed Papers
Health Policy Statistics Section , Government Statistics Section , Social Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Frank Yoon, IBM Watson Health
Chair(s): Frank Yoon, IBM Watson Health
2:05 PM The Evolution of Fraud Detection Models Brian Hochrein, IBM Watson Health
2:25 PM Network Assortativity of Physicians Who Account for Extreme Amounts of Medicare Spending James O'Malley, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth ; Thomas Bubolz, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth ; Jonathan Skinner, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
2:45 PM Assessing the Size and Significance of Provider Variability in Payment Bundles Peter Bouman, IBM
3:05 PM Assessing Data Quality of EHR Outcomes: a Case Study from Clinical Oncology Sandra Griffith, Flatiron Health ; Paul You , Flatiron Health ; Elizabeth Sweeney, Flatiron Health ; Geoff Calkins, Flatiron Health ; Amy Abernethy, Flatiron Health
3:25 PM Discussant: Joseph Meko, State of Tennessee, Division of Health Care Finance & Administration
3:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

567 *
Wed, 8/2/2017, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-345
Recent Advances in Small Area Estimation with Applications and Evaluation of the Estimates — Topic Contributed Papers
Government Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Adrijo Chakraborty, NORC at the University of Chicago
Chair(s): Avinash Singh, American Institutes for Research
2:05 PM Multivariate Fay-Herriot Bayesian Estimation of Small Area Means Under Functional Measurement Error Carolina Franco, U.S. Census Bureau ; William Bell, U.S. Census Bureau ; Serena Arima, Sapienza University, Rome ; Brunero Liseo, Sapienza University, Rome ; Gauri Datta, University of Georgia and US Census Bureau
2:25 PM Estimating County Poverty Rates Using a Unit-Level Logistic Mixed Model with Post-Stratification Samuel Szelepka, U.S. Census Bureau ; Blandine Bawawana, US Census Bureau ; Xingyou Zhang, U.S. Census Bureau
2:45 PM Evaluation Methods for the Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates Program Wesley Basel, U.S. Census Bureau
3:05 PM Robust Hierarchical Bayes Small Area Estimation Gauri Datta, University of Georgia and US Census Bureau ; Adrijo Chakraborty, NORC at the University of Chicago ; Abhyuday Mandal, University of Georgia
3:25 PM Building Block Small Area Model for Compatibility at Different Levels of Estimation Adrijo Chakraborty, NORC at the University of Chicago ; Avinash Singh, American Institutes for Research
3:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

593 * !
Thu, 8/3/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-328
Multiple Imputation for Complex Health Survey Data — Invited Papers
Government Statistics Section , Health Policy Statistics Section , Survey Research Methods Section
Organizer(s): Joseph Kang, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention
Chair(s): Yulei He, National Center for Health Statistics
8:35 AM Enhancing the NHANES CMS Medicaid Linked Data with Multiple Imputation Jennifer R Rammon, National Center for Health Statistics ; Jennifer Parker, National Center for Health Statistics ; Yulei He, National Center for Health Statistics
9:00 AM Calibrated Multiple Imputation Joseph Kang, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention ; Yulei He, National Center for Health Statistics ; Precious Esie, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB ; Jaeyoung Hong, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB ; Kyle Bernstein, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB
9:25 AM Gaussian-based routines for imputing categorical variables in complex data Recai M. Yucel, SUNY-Albany
9:50 AM Discussant: Nathaniel Schenker, Retired
10:15 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

596 * !
Thu, 8/3/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-315
Novel Statistical Approaches to Essential Cybersecurity Problems — Invited Papers
Section on Statistics in Defense and National Security , Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science , Government Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Natallia V Katenka, University of Rhode Island
Chair(s): Gavino Puggioni, University of Rhode Island
8:35 AM Statistical Anomaly Detection Framework for Cyber-Security Marina Evangelou, Imperial College London ; Niall Adams, Imperial College
9:05 AM Discussant: Natallia V Katenka, University of Rhode Island
9:35 AM Discussant: Andrey Lokhov, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory
10:05 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

603 * !
Thu, 8/3/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-327
The Importance of Statistical Analysis in Energy Modeling — Topic Contributed Papers
Government Statistics Section , Committee on Energy Statistics , Section on Bayesian Statistical Science
Organizer(s): Janice Lent, U.S. Energy Information Administration
Chair(s): David Banks, Duke University
8:35 AM Hurdle Models for Residential Solar Photovoltaic Systems Installations Janice Lent, U.S. Energy Information Administration
8:55 AM Determinants of Retail Electricity Prices Lori Aniti, U.S. Energy Information Administration
9:15 AM Determinants of Household Use of Energy Star Appliances Behjat Hojjati, U.S. Energy Information Administration
9:35 AM Deriving Estimates for the Energy Consumption of U.S. Residential Space Conditioning Using Seasonal Datasets William Lawson, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
9:55 AM Bayesian Dynamic Linear Models for Spot Prices of Hydrocarbon Gas Liquids Peter Gross, U.S. Energy Information Administration
10:15 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

632 *
Thu, 8/3/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-339
Using Big Data to Improve Official Economic Statistics — Invited Papers
Business and Economic Statistics Section , Government Statistics Section , Survey Research Methods Section , Statistics in Business Schools Interest Group
Organizer(s): Carma R Hogue, U.S. Census Bureau
Chair(s): Carma R Hogue, U.S. Census Bureau
10:35 AM Using Passive Data Collection, System-to-System Data Collection, and Machine Learning to Improve Economic Surveys Brian Arthur Dumbacher, U.S. Census Bureau ; Demetria Hanna, U.S. Census Bureau
10:55 AM Using Big Data to Enhance US Census Bureau Economic Data Products Rebecca Hutchinson, US Census Bureau ; Scott Scheleur, US Census Bureau
11:15 AM Improving Regional Personal Consumption Expenditure Estimates Using Credit Card Transaction Data Abe Dunn, Bureau of Economic Analysis ; Ledia Guci, Bureau of Economic Analysis ; Mahsa Gholizadeh, Bureau of Economic Analysis ; Bryn Whitmire, Bureau of Economic Analysis
11:35 AM Discussant: Frauke Kreuter, University of Maryland
11:55 AM Discussant: Wendy Dunn, Federal Reserve Board
12:15 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

662
Thu, 8/3/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-326
State, County, and Local Government Statistics — Contributed Papers
Government Statistics Section
Chair(s): Jiashen You, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
10:35 AM Rockville's Use of Federal Statistical Data Mark Pierzchala, MMP Survey Services, LLC
10:50 AM Calculating State Weights for the Consumer Expenditure Survey Susan King, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
11:05 AM Using the Random Forest Model to Mitigate Nonresponse Bias Thagendra Timsina
11:20 AM A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach to Estimation for the Annual Survey of Local Government Finances Noah Bassel, US Census Bureau ; Bac Tran, US Census Bureau
11:35 AM Outlier Research in the Annual Survey of Local Government Finances Peter Schilling, US Census Bureau ; Redouane Betrouni, US Census Bureau ; Bac Tran, US Census Bureau
11:50 AM Robust Estimation for the Annual Survey of Public Employment & Payroll Using Mixture of Linear Mixed-effects Models with the MCMC Procedure Giang Trinh, Census Bureau ; Bac Tran, US Census Bureau
12:05 PM A New Edit Method Selvaratnam Sridharma, US Census Bureau
 
 

664
Thu, 8/3/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-330
Three Pillars of Successful Health Studies: Inclusion, Design, and Measurement — Contributed Papers
Health Policy Statistics Section , International Indian Statistical Association , Government Statistics Section
Chair(s): Ruth Etzioni, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
10:35 AM Where and Who: Complex and Varying Definitions of Eligibility in a Longitudinal Study — Megan Stead, NORC ; Nicholas Davis, NORC ; Christopher Ward, NORC ; Cheryl L. Sharpless, CMS
10:50 AM Evaluating Imaging Inclusion Criteria for Stroke Clinical Trials: Appropriate Enrichment Versus Cherry Picking Robyn L Ball, Stanford University ; Bin Jiang, Stanford University ; Manisha Desai, Stanford University ; Max Wintermark, Stanford University
11:05 AM Data Harmonization and Common Measure Construction in HIV Adherence Studies Yan Wang, UCLA
11:20 AM The Design of the School Physical Activity and Nutrition (SPAN) 2015-2016 Study Adriana Perez, Univ of Texas At Houston Health Sci Ctr ; Nalini Ranjit, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston ; Ramah Leith, Title V-Maternal and Child Health Office ; Debra Saxton, Texas Department of State Health Services ; James Custer, Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living ; Deanna Hoelscher, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
11:35 AM Examining Agreement Between Responses to Independent Sets of Disability Measures: a Comparison of the American Community Survey and Washington Group Short Set Questions James Dahlhamer, National Center for Health Statistics ; Julie Weeks, National Center for Health Statistics ; Jennifer Madans, National Center for Health Statistics
11:50 AM Methods for Collecting State-Wide Prevalence of Bonded Labor in Tamil Nadu, India, Inside Worksites Andrea Parks, International Justice Mission
12:05 PM Floor Discussion
 
 
 
 
Copyright © American Statistical Association