Affiliates Workshop: Non-ignorable nonresponse

Thursday, November 12, 2015 - 2:00pm to Saturday, November 14, 2015 - 4:59pm

The workshop was held Thursday afternoon, November 12,  from 2:00PM - 5:00PM and
8:50AM - 5:00PM Friday, November 13 at the BLS Conference Center in Washington, DC.

NISS Affiliates may use any available balance in their Affiliate Award Fund for travel expenses to attend this workshop.

BLS Visitor Entrance: Each workshop participant should enter the building through the door marked “Visitors’ Entrance” on First Street (immediately across from the First Street exit for the metro station), tell the guards that they are here for the Non-ignorable nonresponse workshop taking place in the BLS Conference Center, and show a government-issued photo ID (e.g., a drivers’ license or a passport).


Agenda

Schedule

Thursday, November 12, 2015

Afternoon Session
BLS Conference Center Room 7-8

2:00-2:40
Overview Talk

Jae-kwang Kim, Iowa State University
Welcome to the world of non-ignorable nonresponse: review of the existing methods

2:40-3:00
Coffee Break

3:00-5:00
30 minute Regular Talks

Jing Qin, NIH
Semiparametric maximum likelihood inference by using failed contact attempts to adjust for nonignorable nonresponse

Michael Sverchkov, BLS
Small area estimation under informative sampling and nonresponse

Peisong Han, University of Waterloo
Some ideas on calibration in the presence of nonignorable missing data

Moshe Feder, University of Southhampton, retired
Statistical Inference Under Non-ignorable Sampling and Non-response--An Empirical Likelihood Approach

Friday, November 13, 2015

Morning Session
BLS Conference Center Room 1-3

8:50-9:00
John Eltinge (or BLS commissioner): Welcome

9:00-9:40
Keynote Talk

James Robins, Harvard University
Missing Not At Random, Missingness Graphs, and Causality: What is New and What is Not

9:40-10:00
Coffee Break

10:00-12:00
30 minute Regular Talks

Daniel Scharfstein, Johns Hopkins University
Global sensitivity analysis of repeated measures studies with informative missing data

Tchetgen Tchetgen, Harvard University
A new discrete-choice model for non-monotone missing data: identification, robustness and efficiency

Miao Wang, Beijing University
A unified identification strategy of nonrandom missing data

Hua Yun Chen, University of Illinois at Chicago
Strength of Parameter Identifiability in the Analysis of MNAR Missing Data

Friday, November 13, 2015

Afternoon Session
BLS Conference Room 1-3

1:20-3:00
25 minute Regular Talks

Jun Shao, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Likelihood Adjusted for Nonignorable Missing Covariate Values with Unspecified Propensity in Generalized Linear Models

Annie Qu, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
A mixed-effects estimating equation model for nonignorable missing longitudinal data with refreshment sampling

Gong Tang, University of Pittsburgh
A Modified Expectation-Maximization Algorithm for Analysis of Data with Missing Values

Mike Daniels, University of Texas at Austin
Bayesian Pattern Mixture Models for the Analysis of Repeated Attempt Designs

3:00-3:20
Coffee Break

3:20-4:30
20 minutes Short Talks

Dylan Small, University of Pennsylvania
Instrumental Variable Methods for Continuous Outcomes that Accommodate Non-ignorable Missing Baseline Values

Eric Slud, University of Maryland
Weighted Estimating Equations Based on Response Propensities in Terms of Covariates that are Observed only for Responders

Changbao Wu, University of Waterloo
Empirical Likelihood Methods for Two-sample Problems with Data Missing-by-Design

Jiwei Zhao, SUNY at Buffalo
Variable selection in the presence of nonignorable missing data

4:30-4:40
Farewell Remarks

Registration is not available.

Event Type

Location

BLS Conference Center
2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE
Washington
,
District of Columbia
,
United States