<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>10</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Toppin, K.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sartore, L.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Spiegelman, C.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Design Weight and Calibration</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">JSM 2017</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Calibration</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dual System Estimation; Weights; Census of Agriculture</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Submitted</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.niss.org/sites/default/files/Toppin_CaRC_20170926.pdf</style></url></web-urls></urls><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;The USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) conducts the U.S. Census of Agriculture in years ending in 2 and 7. Population estimates from the census are adjusted for undercoverage,&amp;nbsp;non-response and misclassification and calibrated to known population totals. These&amp;nbsp;adjustments are reflected in weights that are attached to each responding unit. Calculating these&amp;nbsp;weights has been a two-part procedure. First, one calculates initial (Dual System Estimation or&amp;nbsp;DSE) weights that account for under-coverage, non-response and misclassification. and in the second&amp;nbsp;step, calibration is used to adjust the weights by forcing the weighted estimates obtained in the&amp;nbsp;first step to match known population totals. Recently, a calibration algorithm, Integer Calibration&lt;br /&gt;
(INCA), was developed to produce integer calibrated weights as required in NASS publications.&amp;nbsp;This paper considers combining the two steps of calculating weights into one. This new algorithm&amp;nbsp;is based on a regularized constrained dual system estimation methodology, which combines&amp;nbsp;capture-recapture and calibration (CaRC).&lt;/p&gt;
</style></abstract><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Download:&amp;nbsp;https://www.niss.org/sites/default/files/Toppin_CaRC_20170926.pdf&lt;/p&gt;
</style></custom1></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Phillip Kott</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">A design-sensitive approach to fitting regression models with complex survey data</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2015 FCSM Research Conference</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">designbased.</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">extended model</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">generalized cumulative logistic model</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">proportional-odds model</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pseudo-maximum likelihood</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2018</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ssu/1516179619</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Statistics Surveys</style></publisher><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1935-7516</style></isbn><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Fitting complex survey data to regression equations is explored under a design-sensitive model-based framework. A robust version of the standard model assumes that the expected value of the difference between the dependent variable and its model-based prediction is zero no matter what the values of the explanatory variables. The extended model assumes only that the difference is uncorrelated with the covariates. Little is assumed about the error structure of this difference under either model other than independence across primary sampling units. The standard model often fails in practice, but the extended model very rarely does. Under this framework some of the methods developed in the conventional design-based, pseudo-maximum-likelihood framework, such as fitting weighted estimating equations and sandwich mean-squared-error estimation, are retained but their interpretations change. Few of the ideas here are new to the refereed literature. The goal instead is to collect those ideas and put them into a unified conceptual framework.&lt;/p&gt;
</style></abstract><call-num><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vol. 12 (2018) 1–17</style></call-num></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>10</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bellow, Michael E.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cruze, Nathan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Erciulescu, Andreea L.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Developments in Model-Based County Level Estimation of Agricultural Cash Rental Rates</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">JSM Proceedings. Survey Research Methods Section. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association.</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2017</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.niss.org/sites/default/files/2017%20-%20Developments%20in%20Model-Based%20County-Level%20Estimation%20of%20Ag%20Cash%20Rental%20Rates.pdf</style></url></web-urls></urls><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><section><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2773 - 2790</style></section></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cruze N.B.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Erciulescu A.L.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nandram B.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Barboza W.J.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Young L.J.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Developments in Model-Based Estimation of County-Level Agricultural Estimates</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ICES V Proceedings. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2016</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/ices/2016/proceedings/131_ices15Final00229.pdf</style></url></web-urls></urls><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Abbatiello, S.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Feng, X.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sedransk, N.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mani, DR</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Schilling, B</style></author><author><style 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face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Keshishian, H</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kim, JW</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lyssand, JS</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Riley, CP</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rudnick, P</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sadowski, P</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Shaddox, K</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Smith, D</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tomazela, D</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Wahlander, A</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Waldemarson, S</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Whitwell, CA</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">You, J</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Zhang, S</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kinsinger, CR</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mesri, M</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rodriguez, H</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Borchers, CH</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Buck, C</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fisher, SJ</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gibson, BW</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Liebler, D</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Maccoss, M</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Neubert, TA</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Paulovich, A</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Regnier, F</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Skates, SJ</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tempst, P</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Wang, M</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Carr, SA</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Design, Implementation and Multisite Evaluation of a System Suitability Protocol for the Quantitative Assessment of Instrument Performance in Liquid Chromatography-Multiple Reaction Monitoring-MS (LC-MRM-MS)</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Molecular and Cellular Proteomics</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2013</style></year></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">12</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2623-2639</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) mass spectrometry coupled with stable isotope dilution (SID) and liquid chromatography (LC) is increasingly used in biological and clinical studies for precise and reproducible quantification of peptides and proteins in complex sample matrices. Robust LC-SID-MRM-MS-based assays that can be replicated across laboratories and ultimately in clinical laboratory settings require standardized protocols to demonstrate that the analysis platforms are performing adequately. We developed a system suitability protocol (SSP), which employs a predigested mixture of six proteins, to facilitate performance evaluation of LC-SID-MRM-MS instrument platforms, configured with nanoflow-LC systems interfaced to triple quadrupole mass spectrometers. The SSP was designed for use with low multiplex analyses as well as high multiplex approaches when software-driven scheduling of data acquisition is required. Performance was assessed by monitoring of a range of chromatographic and mass spectrometric metrics including peak width, chromatographic resolution, peak capacity, and the variability in peak area and analyte retention time (RT) stability. The SSP, which was evaluated in 11 laboratories on a total of 15 different instruments, enabled early diagnoses of LC and MS anomalies that indicated suboptimal LC-MRM-MS performance. The observed range in variation of each of the metrics scrutinized serves to define the criteria for optimized LC-SID-MRM-MS platforms for routine use, with pass/fail criteria for system suitability performance measures defined as peak area coefficient of variation &amp;lt;0.15, peak width coefficient of variation &amp;lt;0.15, standard deviation of RT &amp;lt;0.15 min (9 s), and the RT drift &amp;lt;0.5min (30 s). The deleterious effect of a marginally performing LC-SID-MRM-MS system on the limit of quantification (LOQ) in targeted quantitative assays illustrates the use and need for a SSP to establish robust and reliable system performance. Use of a SSP helps to ensure that analyte quantification measurements can be replicated with good precision within and across multiple laboratories and should facilitate more widespread use of MRM-MS technology by the basic biomedical and clinical laboratory research communities.&lt;/p&gt;
</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">A. F. Karr</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Discussion of five papers on “Systems and architectures for high-quality statistics production</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Journal of Official Statistics</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2013</style></year></dates><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></number><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">29</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">157-163</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sedransk, N.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Young, L.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Spiegelman, C.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Data, Statistics and Controversy: Making Scientific Data Intelligible</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Statistics, Politics and Policy</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">data availability</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Daubert rule</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">inference verification</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">meta-data</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">proprietary data</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">publication bias</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">reuse of data</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">secondary analysis</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">synthetic data</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2012</style></year></dates><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></number><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1-20</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Making published, scientific research data publicly available can benefit scientists and policy makers only if there is sufficient information for these data to be intelligible. Thus the necessary meta-data go beyond the scientific, technological detail and extend to the statistical approach and methodologies applied to these data. The statistical principles that give integrity to researchers’ analyses and interpretations of their data require documentation. This is true when the intent is to verify or validate the published research findings; it is equally true when the intent is to utilize the scientific data in conjunction with other data or new experimental data to explore complex questions; and it is profoundly important when the scientific results and interpretations are taken outside the world of science to establish a basis for policy, for legal precedent or for decision-making. When research draws on already public data bases, e.g., a large federal statistical data base or a large scientific data base, selection of data for analysis, whether by selection (subsampling) or by aggregating, is specific to that research so that this (statistical) methodology is a crucial part of the meta-data. Examples illustrate the role of statistical meta-data in the use and reuse of these public datasets and the impact on public policy and precedent.&lt;/p&gt;
</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">A. F. Karr</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Discussion on statistical use of administrative data: old and new challenges</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Statist. Neerlandica</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2012</style></year></dates><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></number><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">66</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">80-84</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Young SS</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Karr Alan</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Deming, data and observational studies. A process out of control and needing fixing</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Significance</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">observational studies</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2011</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">September</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">8</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">116-120</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Any claim coming from an observational study is most likely to be wrong.? Startling, but true. Coffee causes pancreatic cancer. Type A personality causes heart attacks. Trans-fat is a killer. Women who eat breakfast cereal give birth to more boys. All these claims come from observational studies; yet when the studies are carefully examined, the claimed links appear to be incorrect. What is going wrong? Some have suggested that the scientific method is failing, that nature itself is playing tricks on us. But it is our way of studying nature that is broken and that urgently needs mending, say S. Stanley Young and Alan Karr; and they propose a strategy to fix it.&lt;/p&gt;
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Karr</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ashish P. Sanil</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">David L. Banks</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Data quality: A statistical perspective</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Statistical Methodology</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2006</style></year></dates><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2</style></number><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">137–173</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">A. F. Karr</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">J. 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Sanil</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Young, S.S.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Data dissemination and disclosure limitation in a world without microdata: A risk-utility framework for remote access analysis servers</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Statistical Science</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2005</style></year></dates><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2</style></number><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">20</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">163-177</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">A. F. Karr</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">A. P. Sanil</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Data quality and data confidentiality for microdata: implications and strategies</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bull. International Statistical Inst., 55th Session</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2005</style></year></dates><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Shanti Gomatam</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Alan F. Karr</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ashish P. Sanil</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Data Swapping as a Decision Problem</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Journal of Official Statistics</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">categorical data</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">data confidentiality</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Data swapping</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">data utility</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">disclosure risk</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">risk-utility frontier</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2005</style></year></dates><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">4</style></number><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">21</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">635–655</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;We construct a decision-theoretic formulation of data swapping in which quantitative measures of disclosure risk and data utility are employed to select one release from a possibly large set of candidates. The decision variables are the swap rate, swap attribute(s) and, possibly, constraints on the unswapped attributes. Risk–utility frontiers, consisting of those candidates not dominated in (risk, utility) space by any other candidate, are a principal tool for reducing the scale of the decision problem. Multiple measures of disclosure risk and data utility, including utility measures based directly on use of the swapped data for statistical inference, are introduced. Their behavior and resulting insights into the decision problem are illustrated using data from the U.S. Current Population Survey, the well-studied “Czech auto worker data” and data on schools and administrators generated by the U.S. National Center for Education Statistics.&lt;/p&gt;
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Sampling designs and models are compared using an extensive set of data on dioxin contamination at Piazza Road, Missouri. To meet the assumptions of the statistical model, such data are often transformed by taking logarithms. Predicted values may be required on the untransformed scale, however, and several predictors are also compared. Fairly small designs turn out to be sufficient for model fitting and for predicting. For fitting, taking replicates ensures a positive measurement error variance and smooths the predictor. This is strongly advised for standard predictors. Alternatively, we propose a predictor linear in the untransformed data, with coefficients derived from a model fitted to the logarithms of the data. It performs well on the Piazza Road data, even with no replication.&lt;/p&gt;
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