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The International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS) aims to promote the study and development of the theory and practice of sample surveys and censuses. It also aims to increase the interest in surveys and censuses among statisticians, governments and the public in the different countries of the world. The International Association of Survey Statisticians is an association of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), a non-profit, non-governmental organisation established in 1885.
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30 October | A Free IASS Webinar 📈 Don't miss this opportunity to explore advanced techniques for improving estimation accuracy and robustness during the 'Small Area Estimation With High-Dimensional Parameters' Webinar with Dr. Nicola Salvati from Università di Pisa, Italy. Register here: https://lnkd.in/eVHf3t_U Share within your network or tag colleagues, students and others who can't miss this❗
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Young statistician from a developing or transition country? Enter our Cochran-Hansen Prize competition! Deadline: 28 February 2025. Details: https://lnkd.in/dstapzdE Cochran-Hansen Prize 2025: Competition for Young Survey Statisticians from Developing and Transitional Countries In celebration of its 25th anniversary in 1999, the International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS) established the Cochran-Hansen Prize, which is awarded every two years for the best paper on survey research methods submitted by a young statistician from a developing or transition country. For the 2025 edition, the Cochran-Hansen Prize consists of research expenses up to €1500 to present his or her paper at the 65th World Statistics Congress of the International Statistical Institute (65th ISI World Statistics Congress 2025) to be held in #TheHague, the Netherlands, 5-9 October 2025. This recognition will cover the WSC registration and travel expenses to the conference as well as participation in a short course. Credit should be given to IASS for its support during conference presentations or in the publication supported by the Cochran-Hansen Prize. Participation in the competition for the prize is restricted to young statisticians from developing countries (Low and Middle-Income Countries) that are living in such countries and were born in 1990 or later. A paper submitted for the competition must consist of original work which is either unpublished or has been published after February 28th, 2023. A paper may be based on a university thesis and should be written in English. The deadline for submission of papers for the 2025 prize is February 28th, 2025. All papers must be sent to the chair of the IASS 2025 Cochran-Hansen Prize Committee, Eric Rancourt at: eric.rancourt@statcan.gc.ca by the deadline. Each submission must be accompanied by a cover letter, stating the author’s year of birth, nationality, and country of residence. The cover letter should also indicate if the paper submitted is based on a PhD thesis and, in the case of a joint paper, the contribution to the paper made by the prize competitor. The papers submitted will be reviewed by members of the Cochran-Hansen Prize Committee appointed by the IASS. The decision of the Committee will be final. The prize winner will be notified on or before March 31st, 2025, by email. For further information, please contact: Eric Rancourt, Statistics Canada. Email: eric.rancourt@statcan.gc.ca International Statistical Institute - ISI
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You’re still in time to register to IASS Webinar on 25 September, “Random Forests and Mixed Effects Random Forests for Small Area Estimation of General Parameters”, 2:00pm – 3:00 pm (CET) by Nikos Tzavidis, University of Southampton Register: https://lnkd.in/dvEVBy2S International Statistical Institute - ISI
IASS Webinar 44 on 25 September, “Random Forests and Mixed Effects Random Forests for Small Area Estimation of General Parameters”, 2:00pm – 3:00 pm (CEST) by Nikos Tzavidis, University of Southampton Register: https://lnkd.in/dvEVBy2S 𝗪𝗲𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿 𝗮𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 Random forests demonstrate excellent predictive performance. The use of few tuning parameters, automated model-selection, and their ability to detect higher order interactions and complex relationships make their use appealing. Examples of research on tree-based methods for the analysis of complex survey data and survey estimation include Toth & Eltinge (2011), Breidt & Opsomer (2017), Bilton et al. (2017), and Bilton et al. (2020). More recently, Dagdoug et al. (2021) study the theoretical properties of random forests for complex survey data. In this work we study the use of random forests and extensions for estimating general small area parameters. Conventionally, random forests do not include random effects. Random effects play a central role in small area estimation. We propose an extension of random forests to mixed effects random forests that combines the random forest fitting algorithm with a mixed effects model to exploit clustering in out-of-bag residuals. The proposed fitting algorithm extends previous work by Krennmair & Schmid (2022). The fitting algorithm uses non-parametric bootstrap to correct the bias due to the estimation of the random forest in the estimated residual variance (Mendez & Lohr, 2011) before proceeding to estimate the variance components and the random effects. Ignoring this bias impacts both on point and mean squared error (MSE) estimation. Estimators of general small area parameters are derived by using a smearing estimator of the area-specific distribution function (Chambers et al., 2014). The proposed methods are evaluated in model-based simulations and by using real data from a poverty assessment case study in Mozambique. Comparisons to industry standard methods under a linear mixed model e.g., the Empirical Best Predictor, also with data driven transformations, and to a synthetic estimator under the random forest are presented. 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆 Nikos Tzavidis is Professor of Statistical Methodology at the University of Southampton. His research focuses on topics in small area estimation, outlier robust estimation, quantile regression, applications of machine learning to official statistics and the integration of survey and geospatial data. Nikos’s work is supported by funding from the UK Economic and Social Research Council, the European Commission, the UK Office for National Statistics, FCDO, the United Nations and the World Bank. Between 2021 and 2023, he served as Vice-President of the International Association of Survey Statisticians and is currently member of the Advisory Board on Ethics of the International Statistical Institute. International Statistical Institute - ISI
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In case you weren't able to attend, the webinar “Advancing Poverty Mapping – Applications and Validation Using Modern Methods” by Paul Corral, Oscar Barriga Cabanillas and Heath Henderson has been recorded and is available from the ISI webinar page: Recording: https://lnkd.in/d4EVSvV8 Slides: https://lnkd.in/eNZRUZ5S The World Bank International Statistical Institute - ISI
IASS Webinar 43 on 28 August, “Advancing Poverty Mapping – Applications and Validation Using Modern Methods”, 2:00pm – 3:30 pm (CEST) by Paul Corral, Oscar Barriga Cabanillas and Heath Henderson, The World Bank Group Register: https://lnkd.in/dJ7qQtnr 𝗪𝗲𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿 𝗮𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 The World Bank has collaborated with statistical agencies across the globe to obtain poverty maps for over a quarter of a century. The World Bank’s guidelines to small area estimation illustrated updates to the tools and methods used at the institution for poverty mapping and to guide the work going forward. The webinar will present work that stems from what has been learned from the guidelines: 1) an application in Ghana which sought to improve the targeting of the country’s proxy means test, 2) an application in Senegal where a vulnerability map was relied on to provide quotas for the expansion of the social security registry, and 3) a design based validation of machine learning based poverty maps compared to CensusEB and Fay-Herriot poverty maps. 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆 𝗣𝗮𝘂𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗮𝗹 is a Senior Economist with the Poverty & Equity Team as the team lead of the Vietnam program, based in Hanoi. He is also the global co-lead for the Poverty and Equity Policy Lab, a global initiative aimed at providing distributional analysis of policy reforms. Paul led the work on the Guidelines to Small Area Estimation for Poverty Mapping and has published in the areas of small area estimation, agricultural development, income diversification, and human capital accumulation. He holds a PhD in economics from American University and an MSc degree in agricultural economics from the University of Hohenheim. 𝗢𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗿 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗮-𝗖𝗮𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗮𝘀 is an Economist working for The World Bank in the Southeast Asia team of the Poverty and Equity practice. His work in recent years has focused on developing tools for the targeting of social programs using spatial and mobile phone data, and creating protocols that expand eligibility to vulnerable households. He holds a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from UC Davis and an MSc degree in Economics from Universidad de los Andes. 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝗛𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻 is an associate professor of economics at Drake University and an associate editor of the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities. He holds a PhD in economics and an MA in international politics from American University in Washington, DC. His research has been published in many of the leading journals in development studies, including Journal of Development Economics, World Development, and American Journal of Agricultural Economics, among many others. In addition, Heath has worked with a variety of international organisations, such as the World Bank, the United Nations, and the Inter-American Development Bank. The World Bank International Statistical Institute - ISI
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𝗪𝗮𝗸𝘀𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗴 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 2025 Last month during the 2024 Joint Statistical Meetings in Portland, the winner of the 2025 Waksberg Award was announced. Joining a prestigious list of statisticians, the 2025 honoree is Mike Hidiroglou from Canada. The Waksberg Award is given to a prominent statistician who has made significant contributions in the field survey statistics and methodology as they relate to the works of Joseph Waksberg. The award was established in 2001 in honour of Joseph Waksberg for his outstanding contributions to the field. Winners receive an honorarium and are invited to write a review paper for Survey Methodology and present it at Statistics Canada’s International Methodology Symposium. The award is jointly managed by Westat, Statistics Canada | Statistique Canada and the American Statistical Association - ASA. The call for nominations for the 2026 Waksberg Award is now open until February 15, 2025. The chair of the Committee is Jae-kwang Kim (jkim@iastate.edu). More information on the Waksberg Award can be found at the following link: https://lnkd.in/dRnfADUQ International Statistical Institute - ISI
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IASS Webinar 44 on 25 September, “Random Forests and Mixed Effects Random Forests for Small Area Estimation of General Parameters”, 2:00pm – 3:00 pm (CEST) by Nikos Tzavidis, University of Southampton Register: https://lnkd.in/dvEVBy2S 𝗪𝗲𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿 𝗮𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 Random forests demonstrate excellent predictive performance. The use of few tuning parameters, automated model-selection, and their ability to detect higher order interactions and complex relationships make their use appealing. Examples of research on tree-based methods for the analysis of complex survey data and survey estimation include Toth & Eltinge (2011), Breidt & Opsomer (2017), Bilton et al. (2017), and Bilton et al. (2020). More recently, Dagdoug et al. (2021) study the theoretical properties of random forests for complex survey data. In this work we study the use of random forests and extensions for estimating general small area parameters. Conventionally, random forests do not include random effects. Random effects play a central role in small area estimation. We propose an extension of random forests to mixed effects random forests that combines the random forest fitting algorithm with a mixed effects model to exploit clustering in out-of-bag residuals. The proposed fitting algorithm extends previous work by Krennmair & Schmid (2022). The fitting algorithm uses non-parametric bootstrap to correct the bias due to the estimation of the random forest in the estimated residual variance (Mendez & Lohr, 2011) before proceeding to estimate the variance components and the random effects. Ignoring this bias impacts both on point and mean squared error (MSE) estimation. Estimators of general small area parameters are derived by using a smearing estimator of the area-specific distribution function (Chambers et al., 2014). The proposed methods are evaluated in model-based simulations and by using real data from a poverty assessment case study in Mozambique. Comparisons to industry standard methods under a linear mixed model e.g., the Empirical Best Predictor, also with data driven transformations, and to a synthetic estimator under the random forest are presented. 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆 Nikos Tzavidis is Professor of Statistical Methodology at the University of Southampton. His research focuses on topics in small area estimation, outlier robust estimation, quantile regression, applications of machine learning to official statistics and the integration of survey and geospatial data. Nikos’s work is supported by funding from the UK Economic and Social Research Council, the European Commission, the UK Office for National Statistics, FCDO, the United Nations and the World Bank. Between 2021 and 2023, he served as Vice-President of the International Association of Survey Statisticians and is currently member of the Advisory Board on Ethics of the International Statistical Institute. International Statistical Institute - ISI
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August’s monthly newsletter from the IASS: https://lnkd.in/dmVi9m47 International Statistical Institute - ISI
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Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology's (JSSAM) Special Issue on "Survey Research from Asia-Pacific, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and the Caribbean" updates: Deadline extended to September 30 2024 The special issue will be "free to read"! International Statistical Institute - ISI
Dear Colleagues, This is a call for papers for the Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology's Special Issue on Survey Research from Asia-Pacific, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and the Caribbean. The deadline for submissions is August 16th. Please feel free to reach out to me with questions, and to forward to colleagues you think might be interested. Thanks! To learn more about JSSAM, see the website: https://lnkd.in/gzyM2y3P #statistics #surveys #JSSAM #surveyresearch