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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff
Pages 347-352

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... A National Associate of the National Academies, he has served on seven National Research Council committees and is a former member of the Committee on National Statistics. From 1990 to 1992, he served as associate director for statistical design, standards, and methodology at the U.S.
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From page 348...
... He previously served as study director of the Panel on Residence Rules in the Decennial Census and program officer for the Committee to Review the Feasibility, Accuracy, and Technical Capability of a National Ballistics Database, as well as work with other CNSTAT census panels. His research interests include quantitative criminology, particularly space-time dynamics in homicide; Bayesian statistics; and statistics in sports.
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From page 349...
... During her fellowship, she assembled two expert meetings on major options for the National Crime Victimization Survey, several of the participants of which are also members of this panel. She currently serves on the editorial boards of Criminology and the Journal of Quantitative Criminology and on the National Research Council's Committee on Law and Justice.
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From page 350...
... He also teaches in the Joint Program in Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland. He is the director of the Biostatistics Collaborative and Methodology Research Core, a research unit designed to foster collaborative and methodological research with the researchers in other departments in the School of Public Health and other allied schools.
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From page 351...
... From 1992 to 1994 he was a senior research statistician at NORC. At the National Research Council he served as a member of the CNSTAT Panel on Formula Allocations, as well as the Mathematical Sciences Assessment Panel and the Panel on Statistical Issues in AIDS Research; as a staff member he served as study director for the Panel on Small Area Estimates of Population and Income.
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From page 352...
... Work in this area has developed along two tracks: the growth and decline of labor unions and their economic effects in the United States and Europe; and the impact of the American penal system on labor market inequality. His methodological work has focused on the application of Bayesian statistics to research problems in sociology.
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  • criminal justice
  • political science
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  • violence research
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  • crime victimization
  • previously served
  • crime survey
  • national statistics
  • labor market

  • issues involved
  • preventing violence
  • sage foundation
  • social research
  • statistical issues

  • residential segregation
  • kingdom home
  • program evaluation
  • john jay
  • northeast academy

  • public involvement
  • company visiting
  • methodology research
  • executive board
  • statistical institute


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