Methodology
A central attribute of the Michigan Population Studies Center is its focus on the creation and improvement of new methods for the collection and analysis of both qualitative and quantitative empirical data. We have been a leader in the creation of data collection instruments, including questionnaire design, sampling methods, the use of focus groups, and mixed-methods approaches. Innovations in analytical methodology have also been hallmarks of the Center's agenda of research.
Related Publications
2012
Williams, Nathalie, Dirgha Ghimire, William Axinn, Elyse Ann Jennings, and Meeta Sainju Pradhan. 2012. "A Micro-Level Event-Centered Approach to Investigating Armed Conflict and Population Responses." PSC Research Report No. 12-752. January 2012.
Pfeffer, Fabian T., and Martin Hällsten. 2012. "Mobility Regimes and Parental Wealth: The United States, Germany, and Sweden in Comparison." PSC Research Report No. 12-766. July 2012.
Yu, Siyu, and Yu Xie. 2012. "Preference Effects on Friendship Choice: Evidence from an Online Field Experiment." PSC Research Report No. 12-780. November 2012.
Barber, Jennifer S., Heather H. Gatny, and Yasamin Kusunoki. 2012. "The Results of an Experiment: Effects of Intensive Longitudinal Data Collection on Pregnancy and Contraceptive Use." PSC Research Report No. 12-781. December 2012.
Zhou, Xiang. 2012. "A Nonparametric Index of Stratification." Sociological Methodology, 42(1): 365-389.
2011
Gutmann, Myron, G.D. Deane, Kenneth M. Sylvester, and E.R. Merchant. 2011. Navigating Time and Space in Population Studies. New York : Springer.
Axinn, William, Cynthia F. Link, and Robert M. Groves. 2011. "Responsive Survey Design, Demographic Data Collection, and Models of Demographic Behavior." Demography, 48(3): 1127-1149.
Yan, T., Frederick G. Conrad, Mick P. Couper, and Roger Tourangeau. 2011. "Should I stay or should I go: The effects of progress feedback, promised task duration, and length of questionnaire on completing web surveys." International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 23(2): 131-147.
Cain, K., Sioban D. Harlow, R. J. A. Little, B. Nan, M. Yosef, J. Taffe, and Michael R. Elliott. 2011. "Bias Due to Left Truncation and Left Censoring in Longitudinal Studies of Developmental and Disease Processes." American Journal of Epidemiology, 173(9): 1078-1084. PMCID: PMC3121224.
Little, R.J., B. Nan, and Sioban D. Harlow. 2011. "A method for longitudinal prospective evaluation of markers for a subsequent event." American Journal of Epidemiology, 173(12): 1380-1387. PMCID: PMC3145393.
Viruell-Fuentes, Edna, Jeffrey Morenoff, James S. House, and David R. Williams. 2011. "Language of Interview, Self-Rated Health, and the Other Latino Health Puzzle." American Journal of Public Health, 101(7): 1306-1313. NIHMSID: NIHMS404688.
Laber, Eric B., and Susan A. Murphy. 2011. "Adaptive Confidence Intervals for the Test Error in Classification." Journal of the American Statistical Association, 106(495): 904-913. PMCID: PMC3285493.
Bruch, Elizabeth Eve, and Robert Denis Mare. 2011. "Methodological Issues in the Analysis of Residential Preferences and Residential Mobility." PSC Research Report No. 11-725. January 2011.
Gunter, L., J. Zhu, and Susan A. Murphy. 2011. "Variable Selection for Qualitative Interactions." Statistical Methodology, 8(1): 42-55. PMCID: PMC3003934.
Xie, Yu, Jennie Brand, and Ben Jann. 2011. "Estimating Heterogeneous Treatment Effects with Observational Data." PSC Research Report No. 11-729. February 2011.
McGonagle, Katherine, Mick P. Couper, and Robert F. Schoeni. 2011. "Keeping Track of Panel Members: An Experimental Test of a Between-Wave Contact Strategy." Journal of Official Statistics, 27(2 (SI)): 319-338. PMCID: PMC3253355.
Axinn, William, Dirgha Ghimire, and Nathalie Williams. 2011. "Collecting Survey Data during Armed Conflict." PSC Research Report No. 11-730. February 2011.
Xie, Yu. 2011. "Population Heterogeneity and Causal Inference." PSC Research Report No. 11-731. March 2011.
Logan, Trevon, and John M. Parman. 2011. "Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Mortality in the 20th Century: Evidence from the Carolinas." PSC Research Report No. 11-739. May 2011.
Toepoel, Vera, and Mick P. Couper. 2011. "Can Verbal Instructions Counteract Visual Context Effects in Web Surveys?" Public Opinion Quarterly, 75(1): 1-18.
Couper, Mick P., Courtney Kennedy, Frederick G. Conrad, and Roger Tourangeau. 2011. "Designing Input Fields for Non-Narrative Open-Ended Responses in Web Surveys." Journal of Official Statistics, 27(1): 65-85. PMCID: PMC3570266.
Ofstedal, Mary Beth, and David Weir. 2011. "Recruitment and Retention of Minority Participants in the Health and Retirement Study." Gerontologist, 51(suppl. 1): S8-S20. PMCID: PMC3106365.
Bailey, Martha J. 2011. "Reexamining the Impact of Family Planning Programs on U.S. Fertility: Evidence from the War on Poverty and the Early Years of Title X." PSC Research Report No. 11-744. August 2011.
Davis, Rachel E., Ken Resnicow, and Mick P. Couper. 2011. "Survey Response Styles, Acculturation, and Culture Among a Sample of Mexican American Adults." Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 42(7): 1219-1236. PMCID: PMC3171809.
Freedman, Vicki, J.D. Kasper, E.M. Agree, K. Bandeen-Roche, V. Mor, B.C. Spillman, R. Wallace, and D.A. Wolf. 2011. "Validation of New Measures of Disability and Functioning in the National Health and Aging Trends Study." Journals of Gerontology Series a-Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 66(9): 1013-1021. PMCID: PMC3156629.
Li, Zhiguo, and Susan A. Murphy. 2011. "Sample size formulae for two-stage randomized trials with survival outcomes." Biometrika, 98(3): 503-518. PMCID: PMC3254237.
Zhou, Xiang, and Yu Xie. 2011. "Propensity-Score-Based Methods versus MTE-Based Methods in Causal Inference." PSC Research Report No. 11-747. December 2011.
Barber, Jennifer S., Yasamin Kusunoki, and Heather H. Gatny. 2011. "Design and Implementation of an Online Weekly Survey to Study Unintended Pregnancies." Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, 9: 327-334. PMCID: PMC3298188.
Blair, J., and Frederick G. Conrad. 2011. "Sample size for cognitive interview pretesting." Public Opinion Quarterly, 75(4): 636-658.
2010
Peytchev, Andy, Emilia Peytcheva, and Robert M. Groves. 2010. "Measurement Error, Unit Nonresponse, and Self-Reports of Abortion Experiences." Public Opinion Quarterly, 74(2): 319-327.
Sakshaug, Joseph W., Mick P. Couper, and Mary Beth Ofstedal. 2010. "Characteristics of Physical Measurement Consent in a Population-Based Survey of Older Adults." Medical Care, 48(1): 64-71.
Almirall, Daniel, Thomas Ten Have, and Susan A. Murphy. 2010. "Structural Nested Mean Models for Assessing Time-Varying Effect Moderation." Biometrics, 66(1): 131-139. PMCID: PMC2875310.
Heeringa, Steven, Brady T. West, and Patricia A. Berglund. 2010. Applied survey data analysis. Boca Raton : Taylor & Francis.
Bader, Michael, Jennifer Ailshire, Jeffrey Morenoff, and James S. House. 2010. "Measurement of the Local Food Environment: A Comparison of Existing Data Sources." American Journal of Epidemiology, 171(5): 609-617. PMCID: PMC2842213.
Davis, R.E., Mick P. Couper, N.K. Janz, C.H. Caldwell, and K. Resnicow. 2010. "Interviewer effects in public health surveys." Health Education Research, 25(1): 14-26. PMCID: PMC2805402.
Durrant, G.B., Robert M. Groves, L. Staetsky, and F. Steele. 2010. "Effects of Interviewer Attitudes and Behaviors on Refusal in Household Surveys." Public Opinion Quarterly, 74(1): 1-36.
Elliott, Michael R., Trivellore Raghunathan, and Y. Li. 2010. "Bayesian inference for causal mediation effects using principal stratification with dichotomous mediators and outcomes." Biostatistics, 11(2): 353-372. PMCID: PMC2830580.
Elliott, Michael R., A. Resler, C.A. Flannagan, and J.D. Rupp. 2010. "Appropriate analysis of CIREN data: Using NASS-CDS to reduce bias in estimation of injury risk factors in passenger vehicle crashes." Accident Analysis and Prevention, 42(2): 530-539.
Galea, Sandro, M. Riddle, and George A. Kaplan. 2010. "Causal thinking and complex system approaches in epidemiology." International Journal of Epidemiology, 39(1): 97-106. PMCID: PMC2912489.
Resnicow, K., V. Strecher, Mick P. Couper, H. Chua, R. Little, V. Nair, T.A. Polk, and A.A. Atienza. 2010. "Methodologic and Design Issues in Patient-Centered e-Health Research." American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 38(1): 98-102.
Schenker, N., Trivellore Raghunathan, and I. Bondarenko. 2010. "Improving on analyses of self-reported data in a large-scale health survey by using information from an examination-based survey." Statistics in Medicine, 29(5): 533-545.
Li, Geng, Robert F. Schoeni, Sheldon H. Danziger, and Kerwin Charles. 2010. "New Expenditure Data in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics: Comparisons with the Consumer Expenditure Survey Data." Monthly Labor Review, 133(2): 29-39.
Kreuter, F., Kristen Olson, J. Wagner, T. Yan, T.M. Ezzati-Rice, C. Casas-Codero, M. Lemay, A. Peytchev, Robert M. Groves, and Trivellore Raghunathan. 2010. "Using Proxy Measures and Other Correlates of Survey Outcomes to Adjust for Nonresponse: Examples from Multiple Surveys." Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 173(2): 389-407.
Barber, Jennifer S., Yasamin Kusunoki, and Heather Gatny. 2010. "Design and Implementation of an Online Weekly Survey to Study Unintended Pregnancies: Preliminary Results." PSC Research Report No. 10-705. June 2010.
Kirgis, Nicole, and James M. Lepkowski. 2010. "A Management Model for Continuous Data Collection: Reflections from the National Survey of Family Growth, 2006-2010." NSFG Paper No. 10-011. June 2010.
Ghimire, Dirgha, Stephanie Chardoul, Ronald Kessler, William Axinn, and Bishnu Adhikari. 2010. "Modifying and Validating the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) for Use in Nepal." PSC Research Report No. 10-706. June 2010.
Williams, Nathalie, Dirgha Ghimire, William Axinn, Elyse Ann Jennings, and Meeta Sainju Pradhan. 2010. "A Micro-Level Approach to Investigating Armed Conflict and Population Responses." PSC Research Report No. 10-707. June 2010.
Xie, Yu, and Alexandra Achen Killewald. 2010. "Historical Trends in Social Mobility: Data, Methods, and Farming." PSC Research Report No. 10-716. August 2010.
Burnicki, A.C., Daniel Brown, and P. Goovaerts. 2010. "Propagating error in land-cover-change analyses: impact of temporal dependence under increased thematic complexity." International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 24(7): 1043-1060.
Chen, Q.X., Michael R. Elliott, and R.J. Little. 2010. "Bayesian penalized spline model-based inference for finite population proportion in unequal probability sampling." Survey Methodology, 36(1): 23-34.
Conrad, Frederick G., Mick P. Couper, Roger Tourangeau, and A. Peytchev. 2010. "The impact of progress indicators on task completion." Interacting with Computers, 22(5): 417-427. PMCID: PMC2910434.
Couper, Mick P., Eleanor Singer, Frederick G. Conrad, and Robert M. Groves. 2010. "Experimental Studies of Disclosure Risk, Disclosure Harm, Topic Sensitivity, and Survey Participation." Journal of Official Statistics, 26(2): 287-300. PMCID: PMC3134940.
Dever, J.A., and Richard L. Valliant. 2010. "A comparison of variance estimators for poststratification to estimated control totals." Survey Methodology, 36(1): 45-56.
Gillespie, B.W., Q.X. Chen, H. Reichert, A. Franzblau, E. Hedgeman, James M. Lepkowski, P. Adriaens, A. Demond, W. Luksemburg, and D.H. Garabrant. 2010. "Estimating Population Distributions When Some Data Are Below a Limit of Detection by Using a Reverse Kaplan-Meier Estimator." Epidemiology, 21: S64-S70.
Li, Y., J.M. Taylor, and Michael R. Elliott. 2010. "A Bayesian Approach to Surrogacy Assessment Using Principal Stratification in Clinical Trials." Biometrics, 66(2): 523-531.
Singer, Eleanor, Mick P. Couper, Trivellore Raghunathan, Toni Antonucci, M. Burmeister, and J. Van Hoewyk. 2010. "The Effect of Question Framing and Response Options on the Relationship between Racial Attitudes and Beliefs about Genes as Causes of Behavior." Public Opinion Quarterly, 74(3): 460-476. PMCID: PMC3045778.
Tourangeau, Roger, Robert M. Groves, and C.D. Redline. 2010. "Sensitive Topics and Reluctant Respondents: Demonstrating a Link between Nonresponse Bias and Measurement Error." Public Opinion Quarterly, 74(3): 413-432.
Kusunoki, Yasamin, Jennifer S. Barber, Heather Gatny, and Jamie Budnick. 2010. "Relationship Characteristics and Conflict Reported in an Online Weekly Survey: Preliminary Results." PSC Research Report No. 10-719. October 2010.
Barber, Jennifer S., Yasamin Kusunoki, Heather Gatny, and Jamie Budnick. 2010. "The Relationship Between Dating Conflict and Pregnancy: Preliminary Results." PSC Research Report No. 10-720. October 2010.
West, Brady T. 2010. "A Practical Technique for Improving the Accuracy of Interviewer Observations: Evidence from the National Survey of Family Growth." NSFG Paper No. 10-013. November 2010.
Peytchev, A., Frederick G. Conrad, Mick P. Couper, and Roger Tourangeau. 2010. "Increasing respondents' use of definitions in web surveys." Journal of Official Statistics, 26(4): 633–650. PMCID: PMC3570267.
Singer, Eleanor, and Mick P. Couper. 2010. "Communicating disclosure risk in informed consent statements." Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 5(3): 1-8. PMCID: PMC3159151.
Zikmund-Fisher, Brian J., Mick P. Couper, Eleanor Singer, Carrie A. Levin, Floyd J, Jr. Fowler, Sonja Ziniel, Peter A. Ubel, and Angela Fagerlin. 2010. "The DECISIONS Study: A Nationwide Survey of United States Adults Regarding 9 Common Medical Decisions." Medical Decision Making, 30: 20S-34S.
Couper, Mick P., Eleanor Singer, Carrie A. Levin, Floyd J. Fowler, Angela Fagerlin, and Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher. 2010. "Use of the Internet and Ratings of Information Sources for Medical Decisions: Results from the DECISIONS Survey." Medical Decision Making, 30(Suppl. 5): 106S-114S.
Hauser, Robert M., and David Weir. 2010. "Recent Developments in Longitudinal Studies of Aging in the United States." Demography, 47(Suppl. S): S111-S130.
2009
Belli, R., Frank P. Stafford, and Duane Alwin. 2009. Calendar and time diary : methods in life course research. Los Angeles: Sage.
Galea, Sandro, C. Hall, and George A. Kaplan. 2009. "Social epidemiology and complex system dynamic modelling as applied to health behaviour and drug use research." International Journal of Drug Policy, 20(3): 209-16. PMCID: PMC2782722.
Kaciroti, N.A., M.A. Schork, Trivellore Raghunathan, and S. Julius. 2009. "A Bayesian sensitivity model for intention-to-treat analysis on binary outcomes with dropouts." Statistics in Medicine, 28(4): 572-585.
Belli, R., Frank P. Stafford, and Duane Alwin. 2009. "The Application of Calendar and Time Diary Methods in the Collection of Life Course Data." In Calendar and time diary : methods in life course research edited by Belli, Robert F., Stafford, Frank P., Alwin, Duane F.. Lost Angeles: Sage.
Stafford, Frank P. 2009. "Timeline Data Collection and Analysis: Time Diary and Event History Calendar Methods." In Calendar and time diary : methods in life course research edited by Belli, Robert F., Stafford, Frank P., Alwin, Duane F.. Los Angeles: Sage.
Stafford, Frank P., and R. Belli. 2009. "Future Directions in Calendar and Time Diary Methods." In Calendar and time diary : methods in life course research edited by Belli, Robert F., Stafford, Frank P., Alwin, Duane F.. Los Angeles: Sage.
Collins, L.M., B. Chokraborty, Susan A. Murphy, and V. Strecher. 2009. "Comparison of a phased experimental approach and a single randomized clinical trial for developing multicomponent behavioral interventions." Clinical Trials, 6(1): 5-15. PMCID: PMC2711350.
Thornton, Arland. 2009. "The Detroit Area Study and Me." PSC Research Report No. 09-676. May 2009.
Logan, Trevon. 2009. "Are Engel Curve Estimates of CPI Bias Biased?" Historical Methods, 42(3): 97-110.
Conrad, Frederick G., and Johnny Blair. 2009. "Sources of Error in Cognitive Interviews." Public Opinion Quarterly, 73(1): 32-55.
Couper, Mick P., Roger Tourangeau, and Theresa Marvin. 2009. "Taking the Audio Out of Audio-CASI." Public Opinion Quarterly, 73(2): 281-303.
Elliott, Michael R. 2009. "Model Averaging Methods for Weight Trimming in Generalized Linear Regression Models." Journal of Official Statistics, 25(1): 1-20. PMCID: PMC3530169.
Gallop, Robert, Dylan S. Small, Julia Y. Lin, Michael R. Elliott, Marshall Joffe, and Thomas R. Ten Have. 2009. "Mediation analysis with principal stratification." Statistics in Medicine, 28(7): 1108-1130. PMCID: PMC2669107.
Kessler, Ronald C., Shelli Avenevoli, E. Jane Costello, Jennifer Greif Green, Michael J. Gruber, Steven Heeringa, Kathleen R. Merikangas, Beth-Ellen Pennell, Nancy A. Sampson, and Alan M. Zaslavsky. 2009. "Design and field procedures in the US National Comorbidity Survey Replication Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A)." International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 18(2): 69-83. PMCID: PMC2774712.
Kimball, Miles, Claudia R. Sahm, and Matthew D. Shapiro. 2009. "Risk Preferences in the PSID: Individual Imputations and Family Covariation." American Economic Review, 99(2): 363-368. PMCID: PMC2995549.
Li, Jianzhu, and Richard L. Valliant. 2009. "Survey weighted hat matrix and leverages." Survey Methodology, 35(1): 15-24.
Tourangeau, Roger, and Cong Ye. 2009. "The Framing of the Survey Request and Panel Attrition." Public Opinion Quarterly, 73(2): 338-348.
Stafford, Frank P. 2009. "Emerging Modes of Timeline Data Collection: Event History Calendar Time Diary and Methods." Social Indicators Research, 93(1): 69-76.
Gutmann, Myron, Mark Abrahamson, Margaret O. Adams, Micah Altman, Caroline Arms, Kenneth) Bollen, Michael Carlson, Jonathan Crabtree, Darrell Donakowski, Gary King, Jared Lyle, Marc Maynard, Amy M. Pienta, Richard Rockwell, Lois Timms-Ferrara, and Copeland H. Young. 2009. "From Preserving the Past to Preserving the Future: The Data-PASS Project and the Challenges of Preserving Digital Social Science Data." Library Trends, 57(3): 315-337.
Chakraborty, Bibhas, Linda M. Collins, Victor J. Strecher, and Susan A. Murphy. 2009. "Developing multicomponent interventions using fractional factorial designs." Statistics in Medicine, 28(21): 2687-2708. PMCID: PMC2746448.
Cigolle, Christine T., Mary Beth Ofstedal, Zhiyi Tian, and Caroline S. Blaum. 2009. "Comparing Models of Frailty: The Health and Retirement Study." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 57(5): 830-839.
Dimick, Justin B., Nicholas Osborne, Lauren Nicholas, and John D. Birkmeyer. 2009. "Identifying High-Quality Bariatric Surgery Centers: Hospital Volume or Risk-Adjusted Outcomes?" Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 209(6): 702-706.
Alter, George C., Isabelle Devos, and Alison Kvetko. 2009. "Completing Life Histories with Imputed Exit Dates: A Method for Historical Data from Passive Registration Systems." Population, 64(2): 293-318.
Alter, George C., Kees Mandemakers, and Myron Gutmann. 2009. "Defining and Distributing Longitudinal Historical Data in a General Way Through an Intermediate Structure." Historical Social Research, 34(3): 78-114.
Conrad, Frederick G., Lance J. Rips, and Scott S. Fricker. 2009. "Seam Effects in Quantitative Responses." Journal of Official Statistics, 25(3): 339-361.
Couper, Mick P., and Eleanor Singer. 2009. "The role of numeracy in informed consent for surveys." Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 4(4): 17-26. PMCID: PMC2857726.
Manning, Wendy, Pamela Smock, and Cava Bergstrom-Lynch. 2009. "Cohabitation and Parenthood: Lessons from Focus Groups and In-Depth Interviews." In Marriage and family: perspectives and complexities edited by H. Elizabeth Peters and Claire M. Kamp Dush. New York: Columbia University Press.
Abrahamson, M., K. Bollen, Myron Gutmann, G. King, and Amy M. Pienta. 2009. "Preserving Quantitative Research-Elicited Data for Longitudinal Analysis. New Developments in Archiving Survey Data in the US." Historical Social Research-Historische Sozialforschung, 34(3): 51-59.
Alvarez, G., Sioban D. Harlow, C. Denman, and M.J. Hofmeister. 2009. "Quality of cause-of-death statements and its impact on infant mortality statistics in Hermosillo, Mexico." Revista Panamericana De Salud Publica-Pan American Journal of Public Health, 25(2): 120-127.
He, Y.L., and Trivellore Raghunathan. 2009. "On the Performance of Sequential Regression Multiple Imputation Methods with Non Normal Error Distributions." Communications in Statistics-Simulation and Computation, 38(4): 856-883.
Kessler, R.C., S. Avenevoli, C. Jane, J.G. Green, M.J. Gruber, Steven Heeringa, K.R. Merikangas, B.E. Pennell, N.A. Sampson, and A.M. Zaslavsky. 2009. "National Comorbidity Survey Replication Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A): II. Overview and Design." Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 48(4): 380-385. PMCID: PMC2718678.
Kim, J., Edward Norton, and S.C. Stearns. 2009. "Transportation Brokerage Services and Medicaid Beneficiaries' Access to Care." Health Services Research, 44(1): 145-161.
Kleinman, L.C., and Edward Norton. 2009. "What's the Risk? A Simple Approach for Estimating Adjusted Risk Measures from Nonlinear Models Including Logistic Regression." Health Services Research, 44(1): 288-302.
Lin, J.Y., T.R. Ten Have, and Michael R. Elliott. 2009. "Nested Markov Compliance Class Model in the Presence of Time-Varying Noncompliance." Biometrics, 65(2): 505-513. PMCID: PMC2700859.
Peytcheva, E., and Robert M. Groves. 2009. "Using Variation in Response Rates of Demographic Subgroups as Evidence of Nonresponse Bias in Survey Estimates." Journal of Official Statistics, 25(2): 193-201.
Schonlau, M., A. van Soest, A. Kapteyn, and Mick P. Couper. 2009. "Selection Bias in Web Surveys and the Use of Propensity Scores." Sociological Methods & Research, 37(3): 291-318.
Tourangeau, Roger, Robert M. Groves, C. Kennedy, and T. Yan. 2009. "The Presentation of a Web Survey, Nonresponse and Measurement Error among Members of Web Panel." Journal of Official Statistics, 25(3): 299-321.
Grieger, Lloyd, Sheldon H. Danziger, and Robert F. Schoeni. 2009. "Accurately measuring the trend in poverty in the United States using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics." Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 34(2-3): 105-117.
2008
Lepkowski, James M. (Ed). 2008. Advances in Telephone Survey Methodology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
Kimball, Miles, Claudia R. Sahm, and Matthew D. Shapiro. 2008. "Imputing Risk Tolerance from Survey Responses." Journal of the American Statistical Association, 103(483): 1028-1038. PMCID: PMC2856097.
Little, R.J., M. Yosef, K.C. Cain, B. Nan, and Sioban D. Harlow. 2008. "A hot-deck multiple imputation procedure for gaps in longitudinal data on recurrent events." Statistics in Medicine, 27(1): 103-120.
Winship, C., and David J. Harding. 2008. "A mechanism-based approach to the identification of age-period-cohort models." Sociological Methods & Research, 36(3): 362-401.
Yan, T., and Roger Tourangeau. 2008. "Fast times and easy questions: The effects of age, experience and question complexity on web survey response times." Applied Cognitive Psychology, 22(1): 51-68.
Conrad, Frederick G., and Michael F. Schober. 2008. Envisioning the survey interview of the future. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley-Interscience.
Schober, Michael F., and Frederick G. Conrad. 2008. "Survey interviews and new communication technologies." In Envisioning the survey interview of the future. :1-30. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley-Interscience.
Featherman, David, and Erik Austin . 2008. "Internationalizing the Social Sciences: The Tough Road Ahead." PSC Research Report No. 08-636. April 2008.
Clarke, Philippa J. 2008. "When can group level clustering be ignored? Multilevel models versus single-level models with sparse data." Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 62(8): 752-758.
van Houtven, C.H., and Edward Norton. 2008. "Informal care and Medicare expenditures: Testing for heterogeneous treatment effects." Journal of Health Economics, 27:134-156.
Couper, Mick P. 2008. Designing Effective Web Surveys. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Gutmann, Myron, Kristine Witkowski, Corey Colyer, O'Rourke JoAnne McFarland, and James McNally. 2008. "Providing Spatial Data for Secondary Analysis: Issues and Current Practices Relating to Confidentiality." Population Research and Policy Review, 27(6): 639-665. PMCID: PMC2600804.
Groves, Robert M., and E. Peytcheva. 2008. "The impact of nonresponse rates on nonresponse bias - A meta-analysis." Public Opinion Quarterly, 72(2): 167-189.
Groves, Robert M., and D. Cork. 2008. Surveying victims : options for conducting the National Crime Victimization Survey. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press.
Millimet, D., Jeffrey A. Smith, and E. Vytlacil. 2008. Modelling and evaluating treatment effects in econometrics. Amsterdam: JAI.
Cerda, M., B.N. Sanchez, Sandro Galea, M. Tracy, and S.L. Buka. 2008. "Estimating Co-Occurring Behavioral Trajectories Within a Neighborhood Context: A Case Study of Multivariate Transition Models for Clustered Data." American Journal of Epidemiology, 168(10): 1190-1203. PMCID: PMC2732958.
Couper, Mick P., and P.V. Miller. 2008. "Web Survey Methods Introduction." Public Opinion Quarterly, 72(5): 831-835.
Galesic, M., Roger Tourangeau, Mick P. Couper, and Frederick G. Conrad. 2008. "Eye-Tracking Data: New Insights on Response Order Effects and Other Cognitive Shortcuts in Survey Responding." Public Opinion Quarterly, 72(5): 892-913. PMCID: PMC3022327.
Hansen, Ben. 2008. "The prognostic analogue of the propensity score." Biometrika, 95(2): 481-488.
Hansen, Ben, and J. Bowers. 2008. "Covariate balance in simple, stratified and clustered comparative studies." Statistical Science, 23(2): 219-236.
Kaciroti, N.A., Trivellore Raghunathan, M.A. Schork, and N.M. Clark. 2008. "A Bayesian model for longitudinal count data with non-ignorable dropout." Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C-Applied Statistics, 57:521-534. PMCID: PMC2975948.
Kreuter, F., S. Presser, and Roger Tourangeau. 2008. "Social Desirability Bias in CATI, IVR, and Web Surveys: The Effects of Mode and Question Sensitivity." Public Opinion Quarterly, 72(5): 847-865.
Kreuter, F., T. Yan, and Roger Tourangeau. 2008. "Good item or bad-can latent class analysis tell? the utility of latent class analysis for the evaluation of survey questions." Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series a-Statistics in Society, 171:723-738.
Singer, Eleanor, and Mick P. Couper. 2008. "Do Incentives exert undue influence on survey participation? experimental evidence." Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 3(3): 49-56. PMCID: PMC2600442.
Singer, Eleanor, Mick P. Couper, Trivellore Raghunathan, J. Van Hoewyk, and Toni Antonucci. 2008. "Trends in US attitudes toward genetic testing, 1990-2004." Public Opinion Quarterly, 72(3): 446-458. PMCID: PMC3045776.
Valerio, M.A., E.A. Parker, Mick P. Couper, C.M. Connell, and N.K. Janz. 2008. "Demographic and clinical characteristics predictive of asthma diary use among women." Journal of Asthma, 45(5): 357-361.
Bates, Nancy, James Dahlhamer, and Eleanor Singer. 2008. "Privacy Concerns, Too Busy, or Just Not Interested: Using Doorstep Concerns to Predict Survey Nonresponse." Journal of Official Statistics, 24(4): 591-612.
Elliott, Michael R. 2008. "Model Averaging Methods for Weight Trimming." Journal of Official Statistics, 24(4): 517-540. PMCID: PMC2783643.
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.
Couper, Mick P., Eleanor Singer, Frederick G. Conrad, and Robert M. Groves. 2008. "Risk of Disclosure, Perceptions of Risk, and Concerns about Privacy and Confidentiality as Factors in Survey Participation." Journal of Official Statistics, 24(2): 255-275. PMCID: PMC3096944.
2007
Gutmann, Myron, and Paul Stern. 2007. Putting People on the Map: Protecting Confidentiality with Linked Social-Spatial Data. Washington DC : National Academy Press.
Holbrook, A.L., J.A. Krosnick, D. Moore, and Roger Tourangeau. 2007. "Response order effects in dichotomous categorical questions presented orally - The impact of question and respondent attributes." Public Opinion Quarterly, 71(3): 325-348.
Xie, Yu, and Susan A. Murphy. 2007. "Principal stratification designs to estimate input data missing due to death - Discussion." Biometrics, 63(3): 655-658.
Clarke, Philippa J., and B. Wheaton. 2007. "Addressing data sparseness in contextual population research - Using cluster analysis to create synthetic neighborhoods." Sociological Methods & Research, 35(3): 311-351.
Lee, Sunghee, Nancy A. Mathiowetz, and Roger Tourangeau. 2007. "Measuring Disability in Surveys: Consistency Over Time and Across Respondents." Journal of Official Statistics, 23(2): 163--184.
2006
Sastry, Narayan, B. Ghosh-Dastidar, J. Adams, and A.R. Pebley. 2006. "The Design of a Multilevel Survey of Children, Families, and Communities: The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Study." Social Science Research, 35(4): 1000-1024.
Xie, Yu. 2006. "Otis Dudley Duncan's Legacy: The Demographic Approach to Quantitative Reasoning in Social Science." PSC Research Report No. 06-589. February 2006.
Charles, Kerwin, Sheldon H. Danziger, Geng Li, and Robert F. Schoeni. 2006. "Studying Consumption with the Panel Study of Income Dynamics: Comparisons with the Consumer Expenditure Survey and an Application to the Intergenerational Transmission of Well-being." PSC Research Report No. 06-590. February 2006.
Nahm, Joon W., and Robert F. Schoeni. 2006. "Semiparametric Analysis of Wealth-Age Profiles." PSC Research Report No. 06-599. May 2006.
Rogowski, Jeannette A., Vicki Freedman, and Robert F. Schoeni. 2006. "Neighborhoods and the Health of the Elderly: Challenges in Using National Survey Data." PSC Research Report No. 06-600. May 2006.
Couper, Mick P., S.E. McCabe, J.A. Cranford, and C.J. Boyd. 2006. "Comparison of Web and Mail Surveys for Studying Secondary Consequences Associated with Substance Use: Evidence for Minimal Mode Effects." Addictive Behaviors, 31(1): 162-168.
Brand, Jennie, and Yu Xie. 2006. "Composite Causal Effects for Time-Varying Treatments and Time-Varying Outcomes." PSC Research Report No. 06-601. June 2006.
Bray, B.C., D. Almirall, R.S. Zimmerman, D. Lynam, and Susan A. Murphy. 2006. "Assessing the Total Effect of Time-Varying Predictors in Prevention Research." Prevention Science, 7(1): 1-17. PMCID: PMC1479302.
Axinn, William, and Lisa D. Pearce. 2006. Mixed Method Data Collection Strategies. New York : Cambridge University Press.
Van Soest, Arthur, Arie Kapteyn, and Mick P. Couper. 2006. "Selection bias in web surveys and the use of propensity scores." Rand Working Paper WR-279.
Couper, Mick P., Roger Tourangeau, Frederick G. Conrad, and Eleanor Singer. 2006. "Evaluating the effectiveness of visual analog scales - A web experiment." Social Science Computer Review, 24(2), 227-245.
Ardington, Cally, David Lam, Murray Leibbrandt, and Matthew Welch. 2006. "The sensitivity to key data imputations of recent estimates of income poverty and inequality in South Africa." Economic Modelling, 23(5): 822-835. PMCID: PMC2546610.
Groves, Robert M., and Steven Heeringa. 2006. "Responsive design for household surveys: tools for actively controlling survey errors and costs." Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, 169(Part 3): 439-457.
Morgan, S.L., and David J. Harding. 2006. "Matching estimators of causal effects: Prospects and pitfalls in theory and practice." Sociological Methods & Research, 35(1): 3-60.
Schenker, N., Trivellore Raghunathan, P.L. Chiu, D.M. Makuc, G.Y. Zhang, and A.J. Cohen. 2006. "Multiple imputation of missing income data in the National Health Interview Survey." Journal of the American Statistical Association, 101(475): 924-933.
Kaciroti, N.A., Trivellore Raghunathan, M.A. Schork, N.M. Clark, and M. Gong. 2006. "A Bayesian approach for clustered longitudinal ordinal outcome with nonignorable missing data: Evaluation of an asthma education program." Journal of the American Statistical Association, 101(474): 435-446.
Inoue, A., and Gary Solon. 2006. "A Portmanteau test for serially correlated errors in fixed effects models." Economic Theory, 22(5): 835-851.
Conrad, Frederick G., Mick P. Couper, Roger Tourangeau, and Andrey Peytchev. 2006. "Use and non-use of clarification features in web surveys." Journal of Official Statistics, 22(2): 245-269.
Singer, Eleanor. 2006. "Introduction - Nonresponse bias in household surveys." Public Opinion Quarterly, 70(5): 637-645.
Angelucci, Manuela, O. Attanasio, J. Behrman, B. Hernandez, M. Hernandez, P. Todd, B. Trejo, and J. Urquieta. 2006. "Methodology of the evaluation of Oportunidades in urban areas 2002-2004 and in rural areas 1997-2003." In External Evaluation of the Impact of Oportunidades Program. 2004 edited by B. Henandez-Prado and M. Henandez-Avila. Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica.
2005
Murphy, Susan A. 2005. "An Experimental Design for the Development of Adaptive Treatment Strategies." Statistics in Medicine, 24(10): 1455-1481.
Kim, B., and Gary Solon. 2005. "Implications of Mean-Reverting Measurement Error for Longitudinal Studies of Wages and Employment." Review of Economics and Statistics, 87(1): 193-196.
Collins, L.M., Susan A. Murphy, V. Nair, and V. Strecher. 2005. "A Strategy for Optimizing and Evaluating Behavioral Interventions." Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 30(1): 66-73.
Inglehart, Ronald F., and Christian Welzel. 2005. "Exploring the Unknown: Predicting the Responses of Publics not yet Surveyed." International Review of Sociology, 15(1): 173-201.
Knodel, John E. 2005. "Researching the Impact of the AIDS epidemic on older-age parents in Africa: Lessons from studies in Thailand." Generations Review, 15(April): 16-22.
Brown, Daniel, R. Riolo, D.T. Robinson, M. North, and W. Rand. 2005. "Spatial Process and Data Models: Toward Integration of Agent-Based Models and GIS." Journal of Geographical Systems, 7(1): 1-23.
Brown, Daniel, S.E. Page, R.L. Riolo, M. Zellner, and W. Rand. 2005. "Path Dependence and the Validation of Agent-Based Spatial Models of Land-Use." International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 19(2): 153-174.
Curtin, R., S. Presser, and Eleanor Singer. 2005. "Changes in Telephone Survey Nonresponse Over the Past Quarter Century." Public Opinion Quarterly, 69:87-98.
Chiu, Y.C., D. Algase, Jersey Liang, H.C. Liu, and K.N. Lin. 2005. "Conceptualization and measurement of getting lost behavior in persons with early dementia." International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 20(8): 760-768.
Duh, J.D., and Daniel Brown. 2005. "Generating prescribed patterns in landscape models." In GIS, Spatial Analysis, and Modeling edited by D. Maguire, M. Goodchild, and M. Batty. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press.
Bergen, K.M., Daniel Brown, J.F. Rutherford, and E.J. Gustafson. 2005. "Change detection with heterogeneous data using ecoregional stratification, statistical summaries and a land allocation algorithm." Remote Sensing of Environment, 97(4): 434-446.
Geddes, C., Daniel Brown, and D.B. Fagre. 2005. "Topography and vegetation as predictors of snow water equivalent (swe) across the alpine treeline ecotone at Lee Ridge, Glacier National Park, Montana." Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 37(2): 197-205.
Evans, S.E., Ben Hansen, and P.B. Stark. 2005. "Minimax expected measure confidence sets for restricted location parameters." Bernoulli, 11:571-590.
Conrad, Frederick G., and M.F. Schober. 2005. "Promoting uniform question understanding in today's and tomorrow's surveys." Journal of Official Statistics, 21(2): 215-231.
Conrad, Frederick G. 2005. "Standardized interviewing and alternatives." In Polling America: An Encyclopedia of Public Opinion. Portsmouth, NH: Greenwood Press.
Groves, Robert M. 2005. "Plan and operation of cycle 6 of the National Survey of Family Growth." Vital and health statistics, Ser. 1 (no. 42). Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics.
Petrin, Amil, and James A. Levinsohn. 2005. "Measuring aggregate productivity growth using plant-level data." NBER Working Paper No. 11887
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Inoue, Atsushi, and Gary Solon. 2005. "Two-sample instrumental variables estimators." NBER Technical Working Paper No. 311.
Murphy, Susan A. 2005. "A generalization error for Q-learning." Journal of Machine Learning Research, 6(July): 1073-1097. PMCID: PMC1475741.
Manning, W.D., and Pamela Smock. 2005. "Measuring and modeling cohabitation: New perspectives from qualitative data." Journal of Marriage and the Family, 67(4): 989-1002.
Langa, Kenneth M., B.L. Plassman, R.B. Wallace, A.R. Herzog, Steven Heeringa, Mary Beth Ofstedal, J.R. Burke, G.G. Fisher, N.H. Fultz, M.D. Hurd, G.G. Potter, W.L. Rodgers, D.C. Steffens, David Weir, and Robert Willis. 2005. "The aging, demographics, and memory study: Study design and methods." Neuroepidemiology, 25(4): 181-191.
McFadden, D.L., A.C. Bemmaor, F.G. Caro, J. Dominitz, B.H. Jun, A. Lewbel, R.L. Matzkin, F. Molinari, N. Schwartz, Robert Willis, and J.K. Winter. 2005. "Statistical analysis of choice experiments and surveys." Marketing Letters, 16(3-4): 183-196.
Lee, J.Y., R.G. Rozier, Edward Norton, and W.F. Vann. 2005. "Addressing selection bias in dental health services research." Journal of Dental Research, 84(10): 942-946.
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