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Fellows Research Meeting

The CCSM Fellows Meetings aim to provide an ongoing opportunity for researchers actively working in areas of interest to the Centre to present both work in progress and recent research results to an audience of fellow researchers and senior professionals who are also working in these areas. In particular, these meetings provide a high level forum for the dissemination of this research as well as the opportunity for stimulating and constructive discussion and debate on issues that are raised as a consequence. Ideally, participation in the Fellows Meetings should lead to the generation of useful inputs for further research. In this spirit, presentations at the meetings can therefore be relatively 'technical'

Participation in the Fellows Meetings is by invitation, with a planned maximum of 25 participants at any one time. There are four presentations at each Meeting, with three Meetings held a year. All participants are encouraged to make a presentation at a Meeting. The choice of topic is entirely up to the individual concerned, but ideally should be in an area of interest to the Centre, i.e. related to any combination of applied statistical inference, statistical methodology, survey and census methodology and the methodology of official statistics.

Meetings are presently held from 10:00 am (coffee at 9:30) to 4:30 pm in the Conference Centre of Trapper’s Motel, 2 Lockyer Street, Goulburn. Lunch and morning and afternoon tea are provided. Goulburn has been chosen as the venue because it represents a location that is (very roughly) approximately equidistant in terms of real travel time from Canberra, Wollongong and Sydney.

Topics

Goulburn 10 (August 5, 2009)
 
Janice Scealy (Australian National University) Small Area Estimation Using a Multinomial Logit Mixed Model With Category Specific Random Effects.
Dr Jun Ma (Macquarie University) Generalized EM estimation for semi-parametric mixture distributions with discretized non-parametric component.
Dr Ken Brewer (Australian National University) Testing a Precise Null Hypothesis vs a Diffuse Alternative Hypothesis, Using a Ignorance Prior.
Prof. Ray Chambers (University of Wollongong) Outlier Robust Small Area Estimation.

 

Goulburn 9 (April 22, 2009)
 
Prof. Douglas Simpson (University of Illinois) Semiparametric Generalized Linear Models with Varying Dispersion
A/Prof. Gillian Heller (Macquarie University) Zero-adjusted and random sum models: mean and dispersion modelling 
Ray Lindsay (Australian Taxation Office) Using ensembles of models to predict revenue for unlodged tax returns
Approximating curves by many piecewise constants
Ric Clarke (Australian Bureau of Statistics) Investigation Of A Machine Learning Approach For Automated Survey Coding In The ABS

 

Goulburn 8 (November 12, 2008)
Stephen Horn  Measuring process accuracy using state space methods: yet another application of the GREG.
Veronica Rodriguez  Assessing the accuracy and precision of stereo-video length measurements of Southern Bluefin Tuna. 
Serigne Lo and Malcolm Hudson  Saddlepoint Approximation for Semi-Markov Processes with Application to a Cardiovascular Randomised Study.
David Steel and Carole Birrell   Combined Weighting and Analysis of Multiple Longitudinal Surveys.

 

Goulburn 7 (July 30, 2008)
Ross Sparks and Chris Okugami (CSIRO Mathematical & Information Sciences) Data on vehicle crashes of any significance are reported in police reports.
Matt Wand (University of Wollongong) Smoothing and Graphical Models
Phil Kokic (ANU and ABARE) Conditional Forecasting of Quantiles using a State Space Model
Alexa Olczyk and Steve Lane (ABS) Refining the Stratification for the Established House Price Index

 

Goulburn 6 (March 19, 2008)
John Rayner (University of Newcastle) **my brother* is an hairy man, but I am a smooth man.*
Milorad Kovacevic (Statistics Canada) Regression analysis of linked survey files
Pramod Adhikari (Australian Bureau of Statistics) Experimental estimates of adult literacy for Local Government areas
Ray Chambers (University of Wollongong) Measurement error in auxiliary information
Goulburn 5 (November 14, 2007)
Elvezio Ronchetti (University of Geneva) Modelling Interest Rates
Nicole Watson (University of Melbourne) Evaluation of Alternative Longitudinal Income Imputation Methods: The HILDA Experience
Eric Beh (University of Western Sydney) Some Issues Concerning Categorical Data Analysis
David Griffiths (University of Wollongong) The Thrown Coin: Who Gives a Toss? Binary Regression Design: Some Unresolved Issues
Goulburn 4 (July 11, 2007)
Janice Wooton (ABS) Parameter Estimation Using Confidentialised Census Count Data: Measuring the Information Loss
Janice Wooton (ABS) Small Area Estimation: Issues Facing a National Statistical Office
Hooshang Talebi (University of Isfahan) Optimal Bayesian Design for Small Experiments Applied to Simple Logistic Regression Models
Matt Wand (University of Wollongong) Highest Density Difference Region Estimation with Application to Flow Cytometric Data
Robert Clark (University of Wollongong) Adaptive Calibration for Prediction of Finite Population Totals
Goulburn 3 (March 21, 2007)
Daniel Elazar (ABS) Summarising the Quality of Small Area Estimates: 
An ABS perspective  
Stephen Horn (FaCSIA) Longitudinal Estimation
James Chipperfield (ABS) Designing the Missing Data Mechanism for Split Questionnaire Surveys
Alan Welsh (Australian National University) Random Effect and Transformation Models for Clustered Data
Goulburn 2 (November 29, 2006)
Bill Gross (ABS) Replication Variance Estimation
Ken Brewer (Australian National University) Signal Extraction using ARIMA Models
Simon Barry, Emma Lawrence and Emma Knight  (BRS) Statistical Applications to Fisheries Data
Phil Kokic (ABARE) Rural Vulnerability Indexes
Goulburn 1 (September 27, 2006)
Suojin Wang (Texas A&M University) Maximum Likelihood With Auxiliary Information
Taprabatha Maiti (Iowa State University) Using Neural Net Imputation in the National Resources Inventory Surveys
Hukum Chandra (University of Southampton) Small Area Estimation for Business Surveys
Ross Sparks (CSIRO) Surveillance Using Survey Data
  Last reviewed: 22 July, 2009 
 
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