Richard L. Valliant

Funded Research:

Arbitron Agreement for Consulting Services (Arbitron, Inc.)

DHMH Tobacco Program Evaluation (State of Maryland)

Effect of Weighting Matrix Collapsing on Survey Estimates (NCHS)

Effects of Adjustments on Survey Estimates (CDC)

Model-based Properties of Replication Variance Estimators for Sample Surveys (NSF)

Regression Diagnostics in Survey Data (NSF)

Statistical Training for the Manpower and Personnel Analysis Branch (DOD)

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Dr. Valliant has made important contributions to survey methodology in the areas of imputation for missing data, variance estimation for complex survey data, record linkage, and statistical software development. In a current NSF project he studies how to implement group methods in surveys, particularly those concerning the economy, health status of the population and other applications in the social sciences.

Recent Publications

Journal Articles

Li, Jianzhu, and Richard L. Valliant. 2009. "Survey weighted hat matrix and leverages." Survey Methodology, 35(1): 15-24.

Hofferth, Sandra, Welk, G.J., M.S. Treuth, S.M. Randolph, S.C. Curtin, and Richard L. Valliant. 2008. "Validation of a diary measure of children's physical activities." Sociological Methodology, 38:133-154. DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9531.2008.00200.x. Licensed Access.

Valliant, Richard L., J. Michael Brick, and Jill A. Dever. 2008. "Weight Adjustments for the Grouped Jackknife Variance Estimator." Journal of Official Statistics, 24(3): 469-488. Public Access.

Kreuter, Frauke, and Richard L. Valliant. 2007. "A survey on survey statistics: What is done and can be done in Stata." Stata Journal, 7(1): 1-21.

Copeland, Kennon, and Richard L. Valliant. 2007. "Imputing for Late Reporting in the U.S. Current Employment Statistics Survey." Journal of Official Statistics, 23(1): 69--90. Public Access.

Kim, Jay J., Jianzhu Li, and Richard L. Valliant. 2007. "Cell collapsing in poststratification." Survey Methodology, 33(2): 139-150. Public Access.

Valliant, Richard L., Marianne Winglee, and Fritz Scheuren. 2005. "A case study of record linkage." Survey Methodology, 31(1): 4-12. Public Access.

Valliant, Richard L. 2004. "The effect of multiple weight adjustments on variance estimation." Journal of Official Statistics, 20(1): 1-18. Public Access.

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