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Appendix H: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff
Appendix H: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff
Pages 125-134
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and was previously the chair of the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics. Some of the panels he has served on are the Panel to Update the Fourth Edition of Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency; the Committee on Assessing the Feasibility, Accuracy, and Technical Capability of a National Ballistics Database; the Panel on Enhancing the Data Infrastructure in Support of Food and Nutrition Programs, Research, and Decision Making; the Panel to Review the Statistical Procedures for the Decennial Census; and the Committee to Review the Bureau of Transportation Statistics Survey Programs.
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He is currently serving as study director for the Panel on Industrial Methods for the Effective Test and Development of Defense Systems, the Panel on the Theory and Application of Reliability Growth Modeling to Defense Systems, and the Workshop on Future Directions for the National Science Foundation National Patterns of Research and Development Program. Previously, he has directed studies involving census and survey methodology and the testing and evaluation of defense systems in development, as well as a study on handling missing data in clinical trials.
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Department of Labor Secretary's Exceptional Achievement Award. His research involves new data collection methods such as interactive web surveys and virtual interviewers; interviewer–respondent interaction, including the effects of spoken language on outcomes of survey invitation interactions; reliability of pretesting techniques; and the role of public events in personal memory.
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He has received many awards, including the Distinguished Rural Sociologist Award for Career Achievement from the Rural Sociological Society, the Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement Award from the American Association for Public Opinion Research, the Lester F Ward Distinguished Contributions to Applied Sociology Award from the Society for Applied Sociology, and the Roger Herriot Award for Innovation in Federal Statistics from the American Statistical Association and the Washington Statistical Society.
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He manages a methodology division responsible for the design, development, implementation, and maintenance of almost all of Statistics Canada's household surveys. He has provided guidance and advice to methodologists and client program managers on methodological issues, including research and development of innovative methods; and he chaired the Methodology Research and Development Committee, which was responsible for overseeing research in the methodology branch.
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His areas of responsibility include energy efficiency, alternative transportation fuels, smart grid, and demand forecasting. He most recently served as the energy commission's lead staff member on demand-response policy development.
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She has published on topics, such as spatial interpolation, fractals in geography, cancer mortality and spatial data mining, HIV/AIDS in America, and, lately, on modeling business return in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and on measuring community resilience. She has served on numerous national and international advisory panels and journal editorial boards, including review panels and committees for the National Research Council, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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Other research topics include energy use of consumer electronics, energy test procedures, indicators of performance for commercial buildings, and international policies to promote energy efficiency. He has developed techniques for the collection, analysis, and display of regional electricity supply and consumption in real time.
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In 1991–1992, on a part-time basis, he served as the study director for the Panel to Review Evaluation Studies of Bilingual Education. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, in part for his role in the development and maintenance of the Statlib archive of statistical software and data resources.
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