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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Planning Committee Members and Speakers
Pages 93-99

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... His areas of expertise include small area estimation via the Fay-Herriot model (especially the Census Bureau's Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates model) ; demographic modeling of nonresponse to national surveys with particular application to weighting adjustment and small area estimation; and large-scale data problems.
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... LEE L SCHULZ is associate professor in the Department of Economics at Iowa State University and serves as the statewide specialist on livestock economics and markets.
From page 95...
... He has been recognized by the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association and by Iowa State University for early achievement in extension and outreach programming, and he received premier forecaster awards from the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association Extension Section.
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... She has used modeling methods to estimate the costeffectiveness of surveillance, response cost for diseases, economic impact of disease introduction and prevalence reduction, export market trade recovery, and measuring profitability differences in using technology. ANDREW LAWSON is professor of biostatistics in the Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Department of Public Health Sciences, College of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC)
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... in agricultural economics from North Dakota State University. SETH RIGGINS has worked for USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service since 2002.
From page 98...
... YIJUN WEI is a research statistician at the National Institute of Statistical Sciences and USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service. His research interests are machine learning and deep learning, including natural language processing, computer vision, and deep reinforcement learning, especially for solving practical problems.
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... She has served on the faculties of Oklahoma State University, University of Nebraska, and University of Florida. Her recent research has focused on the use of web scraping and capture-recapture methods in surveys and on linking disparate datasets and the subsequent analysis of these data using spatial statistical methods.


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