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Associate Commissioner Areas of Research

 

 John Eltinge (202) 691-7404 Estimation and inference with complex sample survey data, nonresponse, measurement error, variance estimation, disclosure limitation, distribution functions and quantiles.
Senior Mathematical Statistician

 

 Alan Dorfman (202) 691-7378 Sampling design and inference, price indices, smoothing techniques, likelihood-based inference, nonparametric regression, prediction theory, quantile estimation.
Senior Research Statistician

 

 Polly Phipps (202) 691-7513 Survey measurement error, data quality measures, questionnaire and forms design, response rates, modeling of nonresponse, nonresponse bias.
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Mathematical Statistics Research Center

Director Areas of Research

 

 Wendy Martinez (202) 691-7404 Computational statistics, exploratory data analysis, data visualization, outlier detection, statistical pattern recognition, spatial statistics, and the analysis of unstructured text.
Mathematical Statisticians

 

 Moon Jung Cho (202) 691-7384 Resampling variance estimation method, bootstrap variance estimation method, Balanced Repeated Replicate (BRR) method, missing or fragmented data, modeling of survey response rates.

 

 Dan Gillman (202) 691-7523 Statistical metadata, metadata standards, automated coding, terminology.
  Jeffrey Gonzalez (202) 691-7415 Adaptive survey designs, estimation and inference with complex sample survey data, mixed-mode surveys, nonresponse, survey sampling.

 

 Steve Miller (202) 691-7379 Statistical Methods, Measurement Error, Analysis of Data from Complex Surveys, Variance Estimation, and Inference.

 

 Randall Powers (202) 691-7381 Nonresponse, variance estimation, responsive design.

 

 Michael Sverchkov (202) 691-7374 Estimation and inference with complex sample survey data, variance estimation, small area estimation, calibration, time series analysis.

 

 Daniell Toth (202) 691-7380 Machine learning, nonparametric regression, estimation and inference with complex sample survey data, time series analysis.

 

 Daniel Yang (202) 691-7530 Mail and web mixed-mode surveys, nonresponse adjustment, survey sampling, propensity scores model, influence from complex surveys
ASA/NSF/BLS Research Fellows

Behavioral Science Research Center

Director Areas of Research

 

 William Mockovak (202) 691-7414 Questionnaire design, cognitive interviewing, Web surveys, usability testing, information architecture, CASIC applications, interviewer training.
 
Research Psychologists
  Jennifer Edgar (202) 691-7528 Context effects, qualitative research methods, cognitive sources of measurement error, questionnaire design, interviewer training and evaluation.
  Jean Fox (202) 691-7370 Usability, user experience, user interface design, usability testing, computer-assisted data collection.
  Scott Fricker (202) 691-7390 Nonresponse and measurement errors, questionnaire and instrument design, cognitive interviewing, usability.
  Brandon Kopp (202) 691-7514 Nonresponse and measurement errors, questionnaire and instrument design, cognitive interviewing, usability.

 
Research Statisticians

 

 John Dixon (202) 691-7516 Nonresponse, nonsampling error, item nonresponse, measurement error, structural equation models, missing data problems, categorical data, psychometrics, multivariate methods, classification and clustering.

 

 Morgan Earp (202) 691-7387 Survey measurement error, nonresponse bias, experimental design, decision tree modeling, structural equation modeling, instrument design, and psychometrics

 

 Brian Meekins (202) 691-7594 Total Survey Error/Measurement Error, Latent Variable Models, paradata.
Cognitive Laboratory

 

 Stella Godbolt (202) 691-7524 Schedules participants for studies, maintains database of volunteers, coordinates and assists with studies.

 

Last Modified Date: August 14, 2012