Announcements

Call for Submissions: Journal for Survey Statistics and Methodology

Special Issue: Survey Research from Asia-Pacific, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and the Caribbean

Guest Editors:  Carolina Franco, Mamadou Diallo, Sunghee Lee, Denise Britz do Nascimento Silva

The Journal for Survey Statistics and Methodology seeks submissions for a special issue on survey research from Asia-Pacific, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and the Caribbean

Survey research stands to benefit from examining the richness of applications, ideas, and contributions from investigators around the world.  This issue aims to highlight work from locations that are typically underrepresented in JSSAM and other leading journals.  In keeping with the theme of the special issue, it is desirable for at least one of the authors in a submission to be working in one of the regions covered, and applications must use data primarily from these regions. The issue will showcase interesting survey papers from various countries.  

We seek papers from the targeted regions on the usual topics covered in the journal.   These include papers on Survey Statistics, Survey Methodology, and Applications.  The Survey Statistics section presents papers on innovative sampling procedures, imputation, weighting, measures of uncertainty, small area inference, new methods of analysis, and other statistical issues related to surveys. The Survey Methodology section presents papers that focus on methodological research, including methodological experiments, questionnaire design and testing, methods of data collection, interviewer effects, nonresponse and recruitment protocols, responsive designs, new data sources, and use of paradata. The Applications section contains papers involving innovative applications of methods and providing practical contributions and guidance, and/or significant new findings.  In addition to the general topics above, the issue also seeks papers on survey methods and statistics in multinational, multiregional, and multicultural contexts, and on capacity building efforts. 

Submissions to the special issue are welcomed through September 30, 2024. Upon submission manuscripts will be peer-reviewed in accordance with standard journal practice and will be published online soon after acceptance. See this information flyer.

 Electronic copies of the manuscripts should be uploaded at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jssam following the manuscript preparation instructions. To ensure consideration in the special issue, authors must include a cover letter that clearly states that the manuscript has been submitted for consideration for the special issue on “Survey Research from Asia-Pacific, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and the Caribbean.”  Queries about this special issue should be directed to Carolina Franco at franco-carolina@norc.org.

Announcements List

  • Gerald J. Hahn Q&P Achievement Award 2024

    On behalf of the selection committee, we announce that the 2024 Gerald J. Hahn Q&P Achievement Award recipient is Frederick W. Faltin of Virginia Tech.

    Over his 40+ year career, Fred Faltin has made significant contributions as a researcher, consultant, author, and educator. He has successfully applied statistical quality and productivity methods across many problem domains, and through his publications and presentations, has promoted their use by others.  Fred is best known for his work in process control and statistical process monitoring, design of experiments, and as a corporate research manager and international consultant.  He was elected a Fellow of ASA in 2002.

    Fred was deeply involved in quality and productivity improvement across many of General Electric's businesses and founded the data science laboratory at GE Research.  After his career at GE, Fred co-founded a consulting company which supported organizations around the world in domains ranging from manufacturing to financial services, healthcare, and corporate real estate.

    Fred has successfully promoted quality and productivity techniques through the publication of technical and non-technical papers and articles in refereed journals, magazines, and book chapters.  He was co-Editor-in-Chief of three books in applications of statistics, including the highly cited Encyclopedia of Statistics in Quality and Reliability.  Through the many professionals he has trained and mentored in courses, tutorials and seminars, his work has delivered incalculable value to individuals' careers and to the product and process design and improvement of their employers.  Fred's ability to translate sophisticated statistical concepts and into real-world applications that non-statistical operators and managers could understand and apply has been a key to his impact.  Methods that Fred developed and taught are now routinely used by practitioners across the globe as part of their everyday jobs. 

    Fred currently serves as Professor of Practice in the Department of Statistics at Virginia Tech, where he teaches the theory and practice of Data Science in VT's Computational Modeling and Data Analytics curriculum.  In this role, he is promoting awareness and use of statistics for organizational quality and productivity improvement to the next generation of professional data scientists.  Fred is a natural teacher whose wealth of personal and business experience greatly benefits his students.

    Fred Faltin has demonstrated outstanding and sustained achievement and leadership in developing, promoting, and successfully improving the quality and productivity of products, services, and organizational performance using statistical concepts.  He is an exceptionally deserving recipient of the prestigious ASA Gerald J. Hahn Q&P Achievement Award.

    Congratulations Fred!!

    Note: The Gerald Hahn Award recipient will give the Q&P plenary address at the Fall Technical Conference

    Nominations for the 2025 award will be open later in the year.

    Maria Weese
    2024 Chair, Q&P

  • JSM 2024 Sessions Sponsored by the B&E Section

    The Business and Economics Section of the American Statistical Association has organized several sessions for the upcoming Joint Statistical Meetings in Portland, Oregon, from August 4th to 8th. In addition to invited, topic-contributed, and contributed paper sessions, the annual Economic Outlook Luncheon will be held on Tuesday, August 6th, followed by the annual membership meeting later that day.

    A PDF file with all the sessions sponsored by the B&E Section by day is available on this website.

    The tables below show the sessions available on each day, with the location and type of session included in the table.

    Key: Locations

    • CC: Oregon Convention Center
    • H: Hyatt Regency Portland

    Key: Session Type

    • CP: Contributed Papers
    • IP: Invited Paper Session
    • LS: Lunchtime Speakers
    • M&R: Meeting and Reception
    • POST: Contributed Posters
    • TCP: Topic-Contributed Paper Session

    Sunday, August 4, 2024

    Title Time Type Room
    Bayesian Modeling and Multivariate Time series 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CP CC-A104
    Innovative Adaptive Statistical Models for Time Series Data 4:00 PM - 5:50 PM TCP CC-F151

    Monday, August 5, 2024

    Title Time Type Room
    Data Driven Methods in Financial Markets 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM IP CC-B119
    Causal Econometrics and Data Analysis 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CP CC-B119
    Recent Advances in High-dimensional Time Series Analysis for Business and Economics Data 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM TCP CC-F151

    Tuesday, August 6, 2024

    Title Time Type Room
    Changepoints, Discontinuities, and Nonparametrics 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CP CC-C120
    Modern Methods in Time Series and Econometrics 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM IP CC-B110
    Economic Outlook Luncheon (Added Fee) 12:30 PM - 1:50 PM LS CC-C124
    Business and Economic Statistics Student Paper Awards 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM TCP CC-B119
    Time Series Estimation and Theory 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CP CC-B118
    Section General Meeting and Reception 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM M&R H-Willamette 1a

    Wednesday, August 7, 2024

    Title Time Type Room
    Economic Forecasting and Seasonality 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CP CC-C125
    Contributed Poster Presentations: Business and Economic Statistics Section 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM POST CC-Hall CD
    Recent Advances in Time Series Methodology 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM TCP CC-254
    A Skeptical View of Artificial Intelligence 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM IP CC-B119

    Thursday, August 8, 2024

    Title Time Type Room
    Advances in Nowcasting to Help Inform Timely Policy Decisions 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM TCP CC-F149
    New Advances in Causal Inference under Network Interference 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM IP CC-258
    Risk Analysis, Management, and Investing 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CP CC-D134

  • JSM is coming up

    Join our community and check out the discussions to see some of things happening at JSM.  Join us for a lunch social on Tuesday 8/6.

  • Chapter Networking Event

    *****
        What:  Chapter networking event
        When:  Thursday, August 22, 2024
                     4:00 pm - 6:00 pm ET
        Where: 317 BBQ
                     6320 Guilford Ave
                     Indianapolis, IN 46220
        It's Free!:  register on eventbrite
        
    Join your fellow Central Indiana Chapter members in Broad Ripple on Thursday, August 22, 2024 for a professional networking event. We are teaming up with C|Spring (a consulting firm specializing in data analytics and information management strategies) to host this casual, after-work get-together. There will not be a speaker or seminar. The purpose of the event is to mingle and converse with your fellow statisticians and data science professionals from central Indiana. Light food and beverages will be served. The event is FREE, but you need to register to attend. 
     
    If you have any questions or would like more information about this event, please contact our chapter president Meghan Tooman (meghan@dorisresearch.com).
     
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  • JSM 2024

    Look for CSD at JSM!

    We're sponsoring the sesssion "Statistical Analyses and Applications for Studying Intersectionality and Disability Inclusion" Wednesday, August 7 at 10:30 AM

    Members will be speaking at other sessions as well