Sponsored by CANSSI/CRM and SAMSI
This workshop will be held at the Centre de Recherches Mathematiques, Montreal, Canada.
For more information and to Apply, please go to the workshop web page.
Workshop Organizers:
Mary E. Thompson (University of Waterloo)
Louis-Paul Rivest (Université Laval)
David Haziza (Université de Montréal)
Anne-Sophie Charest (Université Laval)
Mike Hidiroglou (Statistics Canada)
Jean Poirier (Université de Montréal)
Location: U.S. Census Bureau
Registration: Registration Closed
PROGRAM
Thursday, May 22, 2014
The eight nodes of the NSF-Census Research Network (NCRN) held a technical mini-symposium on Thursday and Friday, May 22-23, 2014. The program comprised two one-half day sessions focused on topics of broad interest to the nodes, the Census Bureau and the federal statistical system. Presentations highlighted research performed by the NCRN nodes, with opportunity for questions and comments from agency researchers.
Speaker: Aaron Porter (University of Missouri)
Title: Bayesian Semiparametric Hierarchical Empirical Likelihood Spatial Models
On May 2, 2014, Seth Spielman gave a presentation on "Reducing the Margins of Error in the American Community Survey Through Intelligent Aggregation" at the 2014 Population Association of America Annual Meeting in Boston, MA. For details, see: http://paa2014.princeton.edu/sessions/153
Nicholas N. Nagle, "That's about the size of it: geographic scale and small-area estimation"
Adrian E. Raftery, University of Washington, giving talk on "Bayesian Reconstruction of Past Populations for Developing and Developed Countries."