Events
Name FCSM Research Conference
Organized by Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology (FCSM), Washington, DC
Where Washington, DC Area
From 14.11.2005
To 16.11.2005
Description The Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology (FCSM), composed of the senior statisticians from several federal statistical agencies and organizations, and sponsored by the Office of Management and Budget, is planning a research conference to be held November 14-16, 2005. The conference will primarily feature contributed papers with formal discussion and software demonstrations on topics related to a variety of statistical research issues. Papers and demonstrations should address methodology, empirical studies, relevant issues, or topics for future statistical research. Papers must be original and not previously published or disseminated. Proceedings will be published from the conference. Possible topics include but are not limited to:
- Survey design and data collection
- Geospatial data collection and analysis
- Impact of culture and language diversity on questionnaire design
- Improving coverage and response rates
- Research on data collection instrument design, pretesting, and evaluation
- Survey integration & cross-survey planning
- Treatment of missing data · Imputation methods
- Uses of innovative technologies for data collection, processing and dissemination
- Advances in frame development for censuses and surveys
- Model-based survey estimation
- Innovative methods in sample design and estimation
- Response & coverage issues associated with web data collection Analysis
- Bayesian statistical methods
- Estimation methodologies to obtain early or preliminary data
- Exposure analysis and modeling
- Forecasting, time series analysis, and seasonal adjustment
- Innovative methods for designing and analyzing epidemiological studies
- Methods of statistical modeling
- Meta-analysis
- Use of data for policy-making Evaluation
- Census and survey evaluation methodologies
- Environmental effects and ecological assessments
- Innovative approaches to program evaluation
- Measuring data quality
- Nonsampling error: estimation and evaluation
- Usability testing Cross-cutting topic
- Statistical issues in national security
- Confidentiality, privacy, and disclosure issues in data dissemination and linkage
- Data mining, warehousing and metadata
- Design and analysis of longitudinal studies
- Measurement issues and bridging changes in classification systems
- Statistical uses of administrative records
- Nonresponse
- Data safety monitoring boards
- Quality standards and guidelines
Paper submition deadline is on November 1, 2004.
- Survey design and data collection
- Geospatial data collection and analysis
- Impact of culture and language diversity on questionnaire design
- Improving coverage and response rates
- Research on data collection instrument design, pretesting, and evaluation
- Survey integration & cross-survey planning
- Treatment of missing data · Imputation methods
- Uses of innovative technologies for data collection, processing and dissemination
- Advances in frame development for censuses and surveys
- Model-based survey estimation
- Innovative methods in sample design and estimation
- Response & coverage issues associated with web data collection Analysis
- Bayesian statistical methods
- Estimation methodologies to obtain early or preliminary data
- Exposure analysis and modeling
- Forecasting, time series analysis, and seasonal adjustment
- Innovative methods for designing and analyzing epidemiological studies
- Methods of statistical modeling
- Meta-analysis
- Use of data for policy-making Evaluation
- Census and survey evaluation methodologies
- Environmental effects and ecological assessments
- Innovative approaches to program evaluation
- Measuring data quality
- Nonsampling error: estimation and evaluation
- Usability testing Cross-cutting topic
- Statistical issues in national security
- Confidentiality, privacy, and disclosure issues in data dissemination and linkage
- Data mining, warehousing and metadata
- Design and analysis of longitudinal studies
- Measurement issues and bridging changes in classification systems
- Statistical uses of administrative records
- Nonresponse
- Data safety monitoring boards
- Quality standards and guidelines
Paper submition deadline is on November 1, 2004.
