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TCRN PhD student Nicole Dalzell wins best presentation award
Nicole Dalzell won an award for best presentation by a graduate student at the AISC 2014 conference at UNC Greensboro. Nicole talked about her research on accounting for uncertainty in blocking in record linkage.
TCRN postdoc Daniel Manrique Vallier moving to Indiana
After 2 years with TCRN, postdoctoral associate Daniel Manrique-Vallier accepted a tenure track position with the Department of Statistics at Indiana University.
TCRN publishes paper on multiple imputation in large scale categorical databases
TCRN researcher Jerry Reiter and former graduate student Yajuan Si have published a paper on the use of nonparametric Bayesian methods for multiple imputation of missing data in large-scale categorical databases. They applied the methods to impute background characteristics in the Trends in International Mathematics and Statistics Study. The paper will appear in the Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics.
Jerry Reiter to give plenary talk at Pol Meth conference
Jerry Reiter will give a plenary talk at the Political Methodology conference on July 20. The talk is titled, “The multiple adaptations of multiple imputation.”
TCRN publishes paper in JASA on estimating disclosure risks
The TCRN has made some methodological advances related to assessing disclosure risk and imputing missing data. TCRN investigators Daniel Manrique-Vallier and Jerry Reiter developed a way to estimate whether records that are unique in a sample are in fact unique in a population. Their approach, based on grade of membership models, outperforms state-of-the-art methods based on log-linear modeling. Manrique-Vallier and Reiter are developing other approaches that are computationally fast and can handle structural zeros, the latter of which has not been dealt with satisfactorily in the disclosure risk estimation literature. Check the White Papers section of this site soon for more details.
TCRN working with NCI on disclosure risk evaluation
TCRN investigator Prof. Jerry Reiter will work with the National Cancer Institute to develop and implement methodology for estimating disclosure risks in the SEER databases. Prof. Reiter will be assisted by TCRN postdoctoral associate Dr. Daniel Manrique-Vallier.
