Research Area: Methodology:
Analysis and Modeling
Recent Publications
Books
Lepkowski, James M. Advances in Telephone Survey Methodology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. 2008.
Axinn, William, and Lisa D. Pearce. Mixed Method Data Collection Strategies. New York : Cambridge University Press. 2006.
Groves, Robert M., F.J. Fowler, Mick P. Couper, James M. Lepkowski, Eleanor Singer, and R. Tourangeau. Survey Methodology. New York: Wiley. 2004.
Groves, Robert M., D. Dillman, J. Eltinge, and R. Little. Survey Nonresponse. New York: John Wiley and Sons. 2002.
Journal Articles
2009
Logan, Trevon. "Are Engel Curve Estimates of CPI Bias Biased?" Historical Methods, . 2009.
2008
Kimball, Miles, Claudia Sahm, and Matthew D. Shapiro. "Imputing Risk Tolerance from Survey Responses." Journal of the American Statistical Association, . 2008.
2007
Holbrook, A.L., J.A. Krosnick, D. Moore, and Roger Tourangeau. "Response order effects in dichotomous categorical questions presented orally - The impact of question and respondent attributes." Public Opinion Quarterly, . 2007.
Xie, Yu, and Susan A. Murphy. "Principal stratification designs to estimate input data missing due to death - Discussion." Biometrics, . 2007.
2006
Ardington, Cally, David Lam, Murray Leibbrandt, and Matthew Welch. "The sensitivity to key data imputations of recent estimates of income poverty and inequality in South Africa." Economic Modelling, . 2006.
Bray, B.C., D. Almirall, R.S. Zimmerman, D. Lynam, and Susan A. Murphy. "Assessing the Total Effect of Time-Varying Predictors in Prevention Research." Prevention Science, . 2006.
Couper, Mick P., Roger Tourangeau, Frederick G. Conrad, and Eleanor Singer. "Evaluating the effectiveness of visual analog scales - A web experiment." Social Science Computer Review, 24(2), 227-245. 2006.
Morgan, S.L., and David J. Harding. "Matching estimators of causal effects: Prospects and pitfalls in theory and practice." Sociological Methods & Research, . 2006.
Kaciroti, N.A., Trivellore Raghunathan, M.A. Schork, N.M. Clark, and M. Gong. "A Bayesian approach for clustered longitudinal ordinal outcome with nonignorable missing data: Evaluation of an asthma education program." Journal of the American Statistical Association, . 2006.
Inoue, A., and Gary Solon. "A Portmanteau test for serially correlated errors in fixed effects models." Economic Theory, . 2006.
2005
Murphy, Susan A. "An Experimental Design for the Development of Adaptive Treatment Strategies." Statistics in Medicine, . 2005.
Kim, B., and Gary Solon. "Implications of Mean-Reverting Measurement Error for Longitudinal Studies of Wages and Employment." Review of Economics and Statistics, . 2005.
Collins, L.M., Susan A. Murphy, V. Nair, and V. Strecher. "A Strategy for Optimizing and Evaluating Behavioral Interventions." Annals of Behavioral Medicine, . 2005.
Brown, Daniel, R. Riolo, D.T. Robinson, M. North, and W. Rand. "Spatial Process and Data Models: Toward Integration of Agent-Based Models and GIS." Journal of Geographical Systems, . 2005.
Brown, Daniel, S.E. Page, R.L. Riolo, M. Zellner, and W. Rand. "Path Dependence and the Validation of Agent-Based Spatial Models of Land-Use." International Journal of Geographical Information Science, . 2005.
Bergen, K.M., Daniel Brown, J.F. Rutherford, and E.J. Gustafson. "Change detection with heterogeneous data using ecoregional stratification, statistical summaries and a land allocation algorithm." Remote Sensing of Environment, . 2005.
Geddes, C., Daniel Brown, and D.B. Fagre. "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, . 2005.
Evans, S.E., Ben Hansen, and P.B. Stark. "Minimax expected measure confidence sets for restricted location parameters." Bernoulli, 11:571-590. 2005.
Groves, Robert M. "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. 2005.
Murphy, Susan A. "A generalization error for Q-learning." Journal of Machine Learning Research, . 2005.
Manning, W.D., and Pamela Smock. "Measuring and modeling cohabitation: New perspectives from qualitative data." Journal of Marriage and the Family, . 2005.
2004
Collins, L.M., Susan A. Murphy, and K.L. Bierman. "A Conceptual Framework for Adaptive Preventive Interventions." Prevention Science, . 2004.
Barber, Jennifer S., Susan A. Murphy, and N. Verbitsky. "Adjusting for Time-Varying Confounding in Survival Analysis." Sociological Methodology, 34:163-192. 2004.
Lepkowski, James M., Kathleen T. Call, James S. Jackson, Karen Goldsteen, April T. Malmov, and Lynn A. Blewett. "Telephone Service Interruption Weighting for State Health Insurance Surveys." Inquiry, . 2004.
Brown, Daniel, S.E. Page, R.L. Riolo, and W. Rand. "Agent Based and Analytical Modeling to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Greenbelts." Environmental Modelling and Software, . 2004.
Brown, Daniel, and J.D. Duh. "Spatial Simulation for Translating Between Land Use and Land Cover." International Journal of Geographical Information Science, . 2004.
Valliant, Richard L. "The effect of multiple weight adjustments on variance estimation." Journal of Official Statistics, . 2004.
2003
Murphy, Susan A. "Optimal Dynamic Treatment Regimes." Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B-Statistical Methodology, . 2003.
Inglehart, Ronald F., and Christian Welzel. "Democratic Institutions and Political Culture: Problems in Cross-Level Analysis." Comparative Politics, October: 61-80. 2003.
2002
Maples, Jerry, Susan A. Murphy, and William Axinn. "Two Level Proportional Hazards Models." Biometrics, . 2002.
Kezdi, Gabor, Jinyong Hahn, and Gary Solon. "Jackknife Minimum Distance Estimation." Economics Letters, . 2002.
Brown, Daniel, P. Goovaerts, A. Burnicki, and M.Y. Li. "Stochastic Simulation of Land-Cover Change Using Geostatistics and Generalized Additive Models." Phtogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, . 2002.
Pijanowski, B.C., Daniel Brown, B.A. Shellito, and G.A. Manik. "Using Neural Nets and GIS to Forecast Land Use Changes: A Land Transformation Model." Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, . 2002.
Valliant, Richard L. "Variance estimation for the general regression estimator." Survey Methodology, 28, 103-114. 2002.
Chapters
Duh, J.D., and Daniel Brown. "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. 2005.
Xie, Yu. "Association Model." In Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods edited by Michael Lewis-Beck, Alan Bryman and Tim Futing Liao. Pp. 29-35. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 2004.
Heeringa, Steven, Roderick J. A. Little, and Trivellore Raghunathan. "Multivariate imputation of coarsened survey data on household wealth." In Survey Nonresponse edited by Robert M. Groves, et al.. New York: Wiley. 2002.
PSC Reports
Grieger, Lloyd, Sheldon H. Danziger, and Robert F. Schoeni. "Estimating and Benchmarking the Trend in the Poverty Rate from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics." PSC Research Report No. 08-633. March 2008.
Brand, Jennie, and Yu Xie. "Composite Causal Effects for Time-Varying Treatments and Time-Varying Outcomes." PSC Research Report No. 06-601. June 2006.
Nahm, Joon W., and Robert F. Schoeni. "Semiparametric Analysis of Wealth-Age Profiles." PSC Research Report No. 06-599. May 2006.
Xie, Yu. "Otis Dudley Duncan’s Legacy: The Demographic Approach to Quantitative Reasoning in Social Science." PSC Research Report No. 06-589. February 2006.
Other Reports
Van Soest, Arthur, Arie Kapteyn, and Mick P. Couper. "Selection bias in web surveys and the use of propensity scores." Rand Working Paper WR-279. 2006.
Petrin, Amil, and James A. Levinsohn. "Measuring aggregate productivity growth using plant-level data." NBER Working Paper No. 11887
. 2005.
Inoue, Atsushi, and Gary Solon. "Two-sample instrumental variables estimators." NBER Technical Working Paper No. 311. 2005.
Newsletters
Murphy, Susan A., and J.R. McKay. "Adaptive Treatment Strategies: an Emerging Approach for Improving Treatment Effectiveness." American Psychological Association Division 12, section III: The Society for the Science of Clinical Psychology Clinical Newsletter, . 2002.
