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Activity Number: 113 - In Memory of Chris Skinner and TMF Fred Smith
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Monday, August 3, 2020 : 1:00 PM to 2:50 PM
Sponsor: Memorial
Abstract #314392
Title: In Memory of Chris Skinner and TMF Fred Smith
Author(s): John N. K. Rao* and Graham Kalton * and Danny Pfeffermann* and Pedro Luis do Nascimento Silva* and Natalie Shlomo*
Companies: Carlton University and ENCE / Science and Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Univ. of Southampton and University of Manchester and Westat
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This panel will reminisce on the lives and contributions to survey statistics of TMF "Fred" Smith (University of Southampton) and Chris J Skinner (London School of Economics). Graham Kalton will share his personal experiences interacting with Fred and Chris. Jon Rao will discuss Fred Smith's contributions to complex survey sampling and estimation. Danny Pfeffermann will talk about Fred's contributions to time series methods in analysis of repeated surveys, and about his ideas regarding inference for non-probability samples. Pedro Luis do Nascimento Silva will discuss Chris Skinner's contributions to analysis of complex survey data, and Natalie Shlomo will conclude the session with the overview of the most recent of Chris' research interests, statistical disclosure control.


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