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Biographical Sketches of Workshop Participants and Staff
Pages 253-260

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From page 253...
... His research interests include data quality impacts of new data collection technologies, interviewer training for computer-assisted person interviewing, and future developments in computer-assisted information collection. Jellce G
From page 254...
... Mick P Couper is a senior associate research scientist in the Survey Methodology Program in the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan, an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Michigan, and a research associate professor in the Joint Program in Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland, College Park.
From page 255...
... His prior experience includes statistical research with the Office of Research and Methodology at the National Center for Health Statistics and at the Sampling Research and Design Center at the Research Triangle Institute. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and a member of the Biometrics Society and the American Public Health Association.
From page 256...
... He is technical support manager for the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, in which capacity he manages a technical support unit charged to assist a corps of 1,000 field staff running two shifts per day, seven days a week. Other projects he has directed include the Baseline Survey for Community Intervention Trial for Smolcing Cessation, the Youth Attitude Traclcing Study, and the Household Technology Survey.
From page 257...
... Sarah Nusser is professor-in-charge of the Statistical Laboratory Survey Section and associate professor of statistics at Iowa State University. Her research interests include survey methods for welfare surveys, the use of statistics in biological and ecological studies, and computerassisted survey information collection systems.
From page 258...
... Prior to joining Westat, he served as a mathematical statistician and a technical expert at the National Agricultural Statistics Service. His research interests include data editing of survey-collected data, development of complex CASIC instruments, specification of metadata for CASIC instrumentation and survey execution, usability for interviewers and data editors, and reduction of survey costs through integration and elimination of survey tasks.
From page 259...
... Harry Robinson leads software test productivity and model-based testing initiatives as part of Microsoft's Six Sigma Team. Prior to joining Microsoft in 1998, he was with Hewlett Paclcard for 3 years and with Bell Labs for 10 years.
From page 260...
... There he carried out methodological studies and developed and executed sample designs for many federal and academic surveys. Named a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1999, he has served on the editorial board of Public Opinion' Quarterly and on the Census Joint Advisory Panel as member and alter chair of the ASA Subcommittee.


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