The Ohio State University

Observational Data Reading Group

(Causal Inference, Survey Statistics, Missing Data, and other Cool Stuff)



Fridays 12:00-1:00pm
038 Townshend Hall (IPR Conference Room)
All are welcome!
On 5/18 we will meet in Cockins Hall 212!

Spring Quarter 2012


Schedule:
Date Topic
April 6 Omer Ozturk on "Combining multi-ranker information in judgment post strati?ed and ranked set samples when sets are partially ordered".
April 20 Tian Chen on Judgement Poststratification. NOTE: We will meet in CH 212!!
May 4 Elizabeth Stasny
May 18 Dave Kline on Systematically missing confounders in individual participant data meta-analysis of observational cohort studies. Statistics in Medicine. Volume 28, Issue 8, pages 1218-1237, 15 April 2009.
NOTE: We will meet in CH 212!!
June 1 Muriel Fang


Winter Quarter 2012

Tentative Schedule:
Date Topic
Jan 6 Elly Kaizar, on "Propensity Score Analysis with Matching Weights", a working paper by Liang Li
Jan 20 Robert Ashmead, on "Adjusted Kaplan-Meier estimator and log-rank test with inverse probability of treatment weighting for survival data" by Jun Xie and Chaofeng Liu. Published in Statistics in Medicine 2005; 24:3089-3110.
Feb 3 Elizabeth Petraglia, on "Nonresponse Error, Measurement Error, And Mode Of Data Collection: Tradeoffs in a Multi-mode Survey of Sensitive and Non-sensitive Items" by Joseph W. Sakshaug, Ting Yan, and Roger Tourangeau. Published in Public Opinion Quarterly 2010; 75(5): 909-961.
Feb 17 Hui Zheng, on Heteroscedastic Regression in Hierarchical Age-Period-Cohort Models
Mar 2 Elizabeth Stasny, on the AAPOR Report on Online Panels, published in the Public Opinion Quarterly (2010) 74(4): 711-781.


Autumn Quarter 2011

Tentative Schedule:
Date Topic
Oct 10 Chris Browning and Kate Calder on network analysis. The presentation will include discussion of their current work, and will also be based in part on the paper: Mark S. Handcock and Krista J. Gile. Modeling social networks from sampled data. Ann. Appl. Stat. Volume 4, Number 1 (2010), 5-25.
Oct 24 Rebecca Andridge on quality indicators in surveys and R-scores. The presentation will include discussion of her current work, and will also be based in part on these two papers, which should be "easy" to read:
Nov 7 Bo Lu on dual frame survey sampling. Bo has suggested that you take a look at: C. J. Skinner and J. N. K. Rao (Mar., 1996) Estimation in Dual Frame Surveys With Complex Designs Journal of the American Statistical Association Vol. 91, No. 433 (pp. 349-356). He says it's a bit on the technical side, so it's not important to understand everything in the paper.
Nov 21 Elly Kaizar on Record Linkage. She will be presenting the ideas in: Results from simulated data sets: probabilistic record linkage outperforms deterministic record linkage Tromp, Miranda; Ravelli, Anita C.; Bonsel, Gouke J.; et al. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 64 (2011) 565-572.
Dec 5 Hong Zhu on dependence estimation for bivariate survival data through Kendall's tau. In addition to her own research, her talk will be based on the ideas in: Lakhal, Lajmi; Rivest, Louis-Paul; and Beaudoin, David (2009) "IPCW Estimator for Kendall's Tau under Bivariate Censoring," The International Journal of Biostatistics: Vol. 5: Iss. 1, Article 8.


Spring Quarter 2011

Date Topic
April 8 Erinn: TBA
April 22 Johanna: S. Van Buuren, et al. (2006) Fully conditional specification in multivariate imputation. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation. 76(12):1049-1064
May 6
May 20 Peter: TBA
June 3 Kate: Jennifer Hill. (2011) Bayesian Nonparametric Modeling for Causal Inference. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. 20(1):217-240