Twelve NORC staff members will participate in the 2006 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) August 6 - 10, 2006 in Seattle, Washington. Eight staff will present papers and four others will chair or participate in special topical sessions. The JSM is the largest gathering of statisticians held in North America. It is held jointly with the American Statistical Association, the International Biometric Society (ENAR and WNAR), the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the Statistical Society of Canada.

Papers and Presenters

Safaa Amer
Nonlinear Neural Network Imputation

Patrick Baier
Statistical De-identification and the HIPAA Rule

Sadeq Chowdhury
An Evaluation of Methods to Compensate for Noncoverage of Telephone Households using Information on Interruptions in Telephone Service and Presence of Wireless Phones

Karen Grigorian
Effects of Late-Stage Completions on Data Quality

Mike Kwanisai
Estimation in Network Populations

Julia Lane
An Economic Analysis of Survey Response Quality

Yan Liu
Model-Based Approach in Two-Stage Sampling of Audit Data

Steven Pedlow
Variance Estimation for Ordered Categories

Fritz Scheuren
Effective Statistical Leadership in Goverment and Industry

Hee-Choon Shin
Modeling Nonresponse Adjustment Factors

Ben Skalland
A Non-Response Bias Analysis to Inform the Use of Incentives in Multistage Telephone Surveys

Michael Yang
Generalized Variance Functions for the 2003 Survey of Doctorate Recipients

Chaired Sessions and Meetings

Susan Hinkins will chair a meeting of the Committee on Scientific Freedom and Human Rights and a session on “Statistics and the Millennium Development Goals.”

Hiro Minato will chair the session “Meta-analysis in Survey Research: Analysis of Multiple Response Rates and Other Applications.”

Rachel Harter will chair “Sample Survey Quality II.” She also organized the session for “Conducting Surveys When Disasters Strike.”

Steven Pedlow will chair “Survey-Based Variance Estimation.”

Kirk Wolter organized a session on the “Impact of Gulf Hurricanes on the National Immunization Survey.”