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Recent Trends in the Methodology for Social and Business Surveys

IASS Sponsored Pre-session Workshop of the 52nd Session of the ISI

August 5-9, 1999

Jyväskylä, Finland

Mathematics

Host: University of Jyväskylä
Homepage: http://louhi.jyu.fi:80/wshop99jy/
Email: wshop99jy@cc.jyu.fi

Organizers: Prof. Erkki Pahkinen (Committee Chair. Department of Statistics, University of Jyväskylä), Dr. Risto Lehtonen (Director of Reseach, Statistics Finland), Mr. Kari Nissinen (Department of Statistics, University of Jyväskylä), Mr. Kari Djerf (Committee Secretary, Statistics Finland, IASS Country Representative)

Deadline for abstracts: April 10, 1999

Description:
The workshop will concentrate on the following broad topics: Recent trends and future views of the statistical methodology for social and business surveys Multilevel models for complex surveys (including practising with the MLwiN software) Weighting issues for descriptive and analytical surveys Model-assisted estimation

Speakers: Prof. J.N.K. Rao (University of Carleton), Prof. Harvey Goldstein (University of London), Prof. Chris Skinner (University of Southampton)

Date received: February 08, 1999