Presentations - Statistical Methods for Complex Survey Data

Presentations by investigators Jiajua Chen (2010). Testing the Order of a Finite Mixture. Joint Statistical Meetings, Vancouver, August 3. Jiajua Chen (2010). Order Selection in Finite Mixture Models with Non-smooth Penalty. International Conference on Statistical Analysis of Complex Data, Kunming, Yunan, China, July 1. Jiajua Chen (2010). Adjusted Empirical Likelihood with High Order Precision. Applied Statistical Symposium of ICSA. Indianapolis, USA, June 22. Jiajua Chen (2010). Likelihood based statistical inference under finite mixture models. Workshop In Celebration of the Contributions of Jack Kalbfleisch and Jerry Lawless to the Statistical Sciences. University of Waterloo, May 28. Jiajua Chen (2010). Testing the order of finite mixture models with EM-test. Workshop on finite mixture models, Edinburgh, UK, March 3. Jiajua Chen (2009). Adjustment empirical likelihood with high order precision. Canadian Mathematics Society Winter Conference, Windsor, ON, December 3. Jiajua Chen (2010). How did these papers start? SFU-UBS graduate student research workshop, September 18. Jiajua Chen (2010). Likelihood based statistical inference under finite mixture models. Eastern China Normal University, Shanghai, China, July 12. Jiajua Chen (2010). Extended Bayesian Information Criteria for Model Selection with Large Model Space. Xi'An Jiaotong University, Shaanxi, China, July 4. Jiajua Chen (2010). Generalized method of moment and the high order empirical likelihood. London School of Economics and Political Sciences. London, UK, March 9. David Haziza (2010). Robust Calibrated imputation in surveys. Statistics Canada Symposium, Ottawa, Canada, October 28. David Haziza (2010). Robust Calibrated imputation in surveys. Workshop of the Centre de Recherche Mathématique, Montreal, Canada, October. David Haziza (2010). Fully efficient estimation of coefficients of correlation in the presence of imputed data. Joint Statistical Meetings, Vancouver, Canada, August. David Haziza (2010). Resampling methods for variance estimation in the presence of missing survey data. Scientific Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society, Padua, Italy, June. David Haziza (2010). Estimation robuste pour des petits domaines. Sixième Colloque Francophone sur les Sondages, Tanger, Maroc, March. David Haziza (2010). Échantillonnage et estimation en présence de données fiscales dans les enquêtes auprès des entreprises. Sixième Colloque Francophone sur les Sondages, Tanger, Maroc, March. David Haziza (2010). Robust estimation in finite population sampling using the conditional bias of a unit. Séminaire de statistique à l'Université de Waterloo, Toronto, Canada, March. Nancy Reid (2010). Some thoughts on the theory of statistics. Annual Meeting, Statistical Society of Canada, May. Nancy Reid (2010). Approximate inference for vector parameters. Johns Hopkins University, March. Nancy Reid (2010). Approximate inference for vector parameters. University of Waterloo, February. Nancy Reid (2009). Composite likelihood methods. Winter Meeting, Canadian Mathematics Society, University of Windsor, December. Brajendra Sutradhar (2010). Generalized Quasi-likelihood inferences for correlated data. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University, September 27. Changbao Wu (2009). Analysis of Longitudinal Surveys with Missing Responses. York University, November 20. Changbao Wu (2010). Analysis of Longitudinal Surveys with Missing Responses. University of Windsor, March 4. Changbao Wu (2010). Analysis of Longitudinal Surveys with Missing Responses. University of Montreal, April 9. Changbao Wu (2010). Empirical Likelihood Methods for Complex Surveys. DASF Conference III, University of Toronto, April 30. Changbao Wu (2010). Pseudo Empirical Likelihood Inference for Multiple Frame Surveys. ICSA Applied Statistical Symposium, Indianapolis, June 23. Changbao Wu (2010). Analysis of Longitudinal Surveys with Missing Responses. National University of Singapore, August 18. Changbao Wu (2010). Introduction to Statistical Computing Using R. Hefei Normal University, August 23. Changbao Wu (2010). Pseudo Empirical Likelihood for Complex Surveys. The University of Hong Kong, September 8. Changbao Wu (2010). Combining Information from Two Independent Surveys. Statistics Canada International Methodology Symposium, October 28. Jiahua Chen (2009). Feature selection in GLM with large model space. Joint Statistical Meetings. Washington, DC. August 3, 2009. Jiahua Chen (2009). Feature selection in GLM with large model space. International Conference on Financial Statistics and Financial Econometrics, July 8, 2009. Jiahua Chen (2009). Feature Selection in Finite Mixture of Sparse Normal Linear Models in High Dimensional Feature Space. International Biometrics Research Conference, July 4, 2009. Jiahua Chen (2009). Feature selection in GLM with large model space. IMS-Pacific Rim Conference. Seoul, Korea, June 29, 2009. Jiahua Chen (2009). Feature selection in GLM with large model space. ENAR. Antonio, Texas, March 16, 2009. David Haziza (2009). Balanced Random imputation in Surveys. Statistics Canada Symposium, Ottawa, October 20, 2009. David Haziza (2009). Estimation non-paramétrique des probabilités de réponse dans les enquêtes. Journée Méthodes Avancées pour l'Analyse de Sondages Complexes, Toulouse, France, October, 2009. David Haziza (2009). Robust estimation in surveys using the conditional bias of a unit. Colloque en l'honneur de Jean-Claude Deville, Neuchâtel, Suisse, June, 2009. David Haziza (2009). Estimation robuste dans les enquêtes. Seminar of statistics at Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, May, 2009. David Haziza (2009). Discussant : Session on sampling methods, Journées de Méthodologie de l'INSEE, Paris, France, March, 2009. David Haziza (2009). Imputation équilibrée aléatoire, Journées de Méthodologie de l'INSEE, Paris, France, March, 2009. David Haziza (2009). Estimation par la méthode du jackknife en présence de données imputées, Seminar of statistics at Université de Toulouse 1, Toulouse, France, January, 2009. Jerry Lawless (2009). Analysis of duration data from longitudinal surveys. Invited talk at Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting, Vancouver, May 31-June 3, 2009. Jerry Lawless (2009). Modelling and analysis of durations based on longitudinal survey data. Invited talk at Statistics Canada 25th Annual International Methodology Symposium, Gatineau, October 27-30, 2009. Sutradhar, B.C. (2009). GLLMMs and inferences. A plenary talk given in the International Symposium in Statistics (ISS-2009) on inferences in GLLMMs, held in Memorial University from July 20 to 22. Mary Thompson (2009). Inferences for Longitudinal Survey Data. International Symposium in Statistics on Inferences in Generalized Linear Longitudinal Mixed Models. St. John's, Newfoundland. July 22, 2009. Changbao Wu (2009). Analysis of longitudinal surveys with missing responses. Statistics Canada International Methodology Symposium, Gatineau, QC, October 29, 2009. Changbao Wu (2009). Pseudo empirical likelihood inference for multiple frame surveys. Invited talk, 57th Session of ISI Conference, Durban, South Africa, August 22, 2009. Changbao Wu (2009). Bayesian pseudo empirical likelihood inference for complex surveys. Invited seminar speaker, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, April 27, 2009. Changbao Wu (2009). Bayesian pseudo empirical likelihood inference for complex surveys. Invited seminar speaker, Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia, March 24, 2009. Changbao Wu (2009). Bayesian pseudo empirical likelihood inference for complex surveys. Invited seminar speaker, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Simon Fraser University, March 27, 2009. Mary Thompson (2008). International surveys: motives and methodologies. Waksberg address, Statistics Canada International Symposium on Methodology, Gatineau, QC, October 29, 2008. Mary Thompson (2008). Accounting for the effects of data collection method in surveys collecting data using both the web and the telephone. Ontario Tobacco Research Unit Conference: Tobacco Control for the 21st Century: Challenges in Research and Evaluation. November 11, 2008. Changbao Wu (2008). Bayesian pseudo empirical likelihood inference for complex surveys. Invited presentation, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, November 28, 2008. Jiahua Chen (2008). Adjusted empirical likelihood with high order precision, University of Science and Technology of China, July 17, 2008. Jiahua Chen (2008). Extended Bayesian Information Criterion for Model Selection with Large Model Space, Northeast Normal University, China, July 14, 2008. Jiahua Chen (2008). Extended Bayesian Information Criterion for Model Selection with Large Model Space, 3rd Annual Canadian Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics Meeting, Field Institute, Toronto, May 1, 2008. Jiahua Chen (2008). EM-test in finite mixture models, Tamkam University, Taiwan, March 24, 2008. Jiahua Chen (2008). Extended Bayesian Information Criterion for Model Selection with Large Model Space, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, March 14, 2008. Jiahua Chen (2008). Adjusted Empirical Likelihood, National Taiwan University, Taipei, March 3, 2008. Jiahua Chen (2008). Extended Bayesian Information Criterion for Model Selection with Large Model Space, Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, March 2, 2008. Jiahua Chen (2008). Central Limit Theorem in Two-phase Sampling, First Canada-Mexico Statistics Meeting. CIMAT, Guanajuato, Mexico, February 23, 2008. Haziza, D. (2008). Séminaire de statistique à l École Nationale de la Statistique et de l Information (Rennes, France), Estimation par la méthode du jackknife en presence de données imputées, invited talk. June 2008. J. Lawless (2008). Making Sense of Life History Processes Through Multistate Models, President's Invited Address at WNAR Conference, Davis CA, June 23, 2008. Lu Irene R.R., Roland Thomas D. (2008). The problems of the conventional two-step score-based regression: A review, alternative approaches, and a real data illustration. European Marketing Association Conference, Brighton, England, May, 2008. B.C. Sutradhar (2008). GQL inferences in stationary versus non-stationary GLLMs, Symposium on Dependent Data Structure, Fields Institute and Carleton University, May 21-23, 2008. Zilin Wang (2008). A Resampling Approach to Estimate Variance Components of Multilevel Models. Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting, Ottawa, May 27, 2008. Changbao Wu and J.N.K. Rao (2008). Scale-load and Empirical Likelihood Inference for Complex Surveys. International Conference on Bayesian Statistics and Survey Sampling, University of Southampton, UK, August 29, 2008. Changbao Wu (2008). Bayesian Pseudo Empirical Likelihood Inference for Complex Surveys. Department of Statistics, University of Toronto. October 9, 2008. Jiahua Chen (2007). EM-test in finite mixture models , University of Science and Technology of China, December 26, 2007. Jiahua Chen (2007). EM-test in finite mixture models, SFU/UBC joint seminar, December 6, 2007. Jiahua Chen (2007). Extended Bayesian Information Criterion for Model Selection with Large Model Space, Simon Fraser University, October 26, 2007. Haziza, D. (2007). Cinquième Colloque francophone sur les sondages (Marseille, France) L imputation ou préserver les relations (contributed). November, 2007. Haziza, D. (2007). Workshop on Calibration and Estimation in Surveys (Ottawa, Canada) On jackknife variance estimation in the presence of imputed data (invited speaker).November, 2007. Haziza, D. (2007). Joint Statistical Meeting (Salt Lake City, USA) Variance estimation under auxiliary value imputation in surveys (contributed). August, 2007. Haziza, D. (2007). International Conference on Establishment Surveys III (Montréal, Canada) Sampling and estimation in the presence of tax data in business surveys (contributed). June, 2007. Haziza, D. (2007). Journées de statistique de la Société Française de Statistique (Angers, France) Traitement de la non-réponse par imputation dans les enquêtes (contributed). June, 2007. Haziza, D. (2007). Journées de statistique de la Société Française de Statistique (Angers, France) Estimation en présence d échantillonnage de type cut-off (invited speaker). June, 2007. Haziza, D. (2007). Journée du club SAS/STAT (Rennes, France) Outils SAS pour les études par simulation en présence de non-réponse et d mputation (invited speaker). June, 2007. Haziza, D. (2007). Journées d optimisation (Montréal, Canada) Variance estimation under auxiliary value imputation in surveys (invited speaker). May, 2007. Haziza, D. (2007). Université Laval (Québec, Canada) Approche par modèle de non-réponse pour l inférence en présence de données imputées (invited speaker). March, 2007. Thomas, D.R. (2007). Simple practitioner oriented hypothesis tests for various types of multiple response survey data. Invited talk: Special Session on Analyzing Multiple Response Categorical Data from Complex Survey Designs, Section on Survey Research Methods. Joint Statistical Meetings, Salt Lake City, August, 2007. Mary Thompson (2007). Generalizing from a sample to a population:  reflections on history.  Fields Institute, February 26, 2007. Mary Thompson (2007). Estimating functions and survey sampling. International Chinese Statistical Association International Conference, Taipei, Taiwan. June 26, 2007. Changbao Wu (2007). Calibration, Raking and Empirical Likelihood , invited talk at Statistics Canada. February 23, 2007. Changbao Wu (2007). An Overview of the MITACS/NPCDS Project Statistical Methods for Complex Survey Data. NPCDS Scientific Meeting at Banff. April 11, 2007. Changbao Wu (2007). Empirical Likelihood Methods for Sample Surveys, invited talk at International Conference on Frontiers in Statistics. Kunming, China, August 13, 2007. Changbao Wu (2007). Pseudo Empirical Likelihood Methods for Multiple Frame Surveys. Workshop on Calibration and Estimation in Surveys, Statistics Canada. November 1, 2007. Berger, Y. and Rao, J.N.K. (2006). Adjusted jackknife for imputation under unequal probability sampling without replacement. Invited Presentation, Joint Statistical Meetings, Seattle WA, August 2006. Lahiri, P., Chen, S. and Rao, J.N.K. (2006). Small area estimation. Invited Presentation, Symposium 2006, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, November 2006. Lu, W. (2006). Confidentiality and Replication-based Variance Estimation. 23rd International Methodology Symposium, Ottawa, 2006. Rao, J.N.K. (2006). Bootstrap methods for analyzing complex survey data. Invited Presentation, Symposium 2006, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, November 2006. Rao, J.N.K. (2006). Client-oriented perspectives on small area estimation, Invited Discussion, Joint Statistical Meeting, Seattle WA, August 2006. Rao, J.N.K. (2006). Some new methods for analysis of complex survey data. Invited Presentation, 9th International Vilnius Conference on Probability and Statistics, Vilnius, Lithuania, June 2006. Roberts, G., Rao, J.N.K. and Ren, Q. (2006). Goodness-of-fit tests of marginal logistic models for longitudinal complex survey data. Invited Presentation, Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meetings, London, Ontario, May 2006. Roberts, G., Rao, J.N.K. and Ren, Q. (2006). Using marginal mean models with data from a longitudinal survey having a complex design: some advances in methods. Invited Presentation, Methodology of Longitudinal Surveys Conference, Essex, United Kingdom, July 2006. Sutradhar, B. C. (2006). Complex Sampling Design Based Familial and Longitudinal Health Data Analysis: An Overview. Invited presentation at Statistics Canada symposium, November 2006. Sitter, R.R. and Wu, C. (2006). Empirical Likelihood Methods for Raking in Complex Surveys. Invited presentation, Joint Statistical Meetings, Seattle, WA, August, 2006. Thompson, M.E. (2006). Modelling transitions with survey data. 9th International Vilnius Conference on Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics, Vilnius , Lithuania, June, 2006. Thompson, M.E. (2006). Methods for analyzing longitudinal health survey data. Workshop, Statistics Canada Annual Symposium, November, 2006. Wang, Z., Thompson, M. and Jiang, Z. (2006). A resampling approach to multilevel models. Contributed poster, Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting, May, 2006. Wu, C. and Rao, J.N.K. (2006). Empirical Likelihood Inference from Sample Survey Data. Invited presentation, Joint Statistical Meetings, Seattle, WA, August, 2006. Wu, C. (2006). Empirical Likelihood Inference for Sample Survey Data: A Review. Invited presentation, Washington Statistical Society, Washington DC, November, 2006. Wu, C. (2006). Calibration, Raking and Empirical Likelihood. Invited presentation, National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA, Washington DC, November, 2006. Wu, C. and Thompson, M.E. (2006). Simulation-based Randomized Systematic PPS sampling Under Substitution of Units. Invited presentation, Statistics Canada International Methodological Symposium, November, 2006. Bellhouse, D.R., Thompson, M.E. and Wang, Z. (2005). Complex Survey Methods and Longitudinal Data Analysis. Half Day Workshop, Canadian Population Society Annual Meeting University of Western Ontario, June, 2005. Rao, J.N.K. (2005). Analysis of Survey Data. Invited Presentation, MITACS conference, Montreal, May 2005. Rao, J.N.K. (2005). Workshop on Empirical Likelihood Methods, Ottawa, May 2005. Rao, J.N.K. (2005). Empirical Likelihood Inference with Survey Data. Invited Presentation, Perspectives in Statistics, Mikulov, Czech Republic, July 2005. Rao, J.N.K. (2005). Recent Developments in Sample Survey Theory. Invited short course, Journal of Official Statistics 20th Anniversary Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2005. Sitter, R.R. (2005). Resampling Methods for Variance Estimation in Complex Surveys. Discussant, International Statistical Institute Conference, Sydney, Australia, April, 2005. Sitter, R.R. (2005). Bootstrapping in Complex Surveys. Special Invited Lecture, Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meetings, Saskatoon, SK, June, 2005. Sutradhar, B.C. (2005). On Complex Survey Based Longitudinal Binary Data Analysis. NPCD/MITACS Workshop, Banff Research Centre, April 14, 2005. Thompson, M.E. (2005). Latent Variable Models and Survey Methodology. Colloque francophone sur les sondages, Quebec, May, 2005. Thompson, M.E., Boudreau, C. and Driezen, P. (2005). Incorporating Time-in-Sample in Longitudinal Survey Models. Statistics Canada Symposium, October, 2005. Pantoja, N. and Thompson, M.E. (2005). A Nonparametric Test for Association of Interval Censored Event Times in the National Population Health Survey. NPCDS/MITACS Conference, BIRS, April, 2005. Wu, C. (2005). Empirical Likelihood Approach to Calibration with Survey Data. ISI Conference, Sydney, Australia. April 12, 2005. Wu, C. (2005). Workshop on Empirical Likelihood Methods, Ottawa, May 2005. Wu, C. (2005). Empirical Likelihood Inference for Multiple Surveys and Multiple Frame Surveys. SSC Annual Meeting, Saskatoon, June 14, 2005. Wu, C. (2005). Empirical Likelihood Inference for a Common Mean. Invited presentation, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, September, 2005. Wu, C. (2005). Empirical Likelihood Inference for a Common Mean. Invited presentation, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, November, 2005. Chen, J. (2004). Confidence Interval Under Unequal Probablity Sampling for Population with Large Proportion of Zero Values. Invited presentation at 2004 Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting, Montreal, QC, June 2004. Rao, J.N.K. (2004). Empirical Likelihood Methods in Survey Sampling: An Overview. Invited presentation at 2004 Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting, Montreal, QC, June 2004. Sitter, R.R. (2004). The Bootstrap and Westat: An Overview of the Bootstrap. Presentation at Westat Inc., Rockville, MD, USA, May 2004. Thompson, M. E. and Pantoja Galicia, N. (2004). Interval Censoring of Event Times in the National Population Health Survey. Presentation to Workshop on Missing Data Problems, Fields Institute, August 5-6. Wu, C. (2004). Some Computational Aspects of the Empirical Likelihood Method in Survey Sampling. Invited presentation at 2004 Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting, Montreal, QC, June 2004. Presentations by students Chen Xu (2010). Penalized likelihood methods for varibale selection in analysis of survey data. SSC Annual Meeting, Quebec City, May. Chen Xu (2010). The consistency of sample-based SCAD in complex surveys. Statistics Canada, Ottawa, April. Libo Lu (2010). An Approximate Inference Method for Analyzing Joint Models in Longitudinal Studies. Department of Statistics, UBC, August 19. Yi Huang (2010). Properties of Empirical and Adjusted Empirical Likelihood. Department of Statistics, UBC. Xiaoli Yu (2010). Group Sequential Methods for the Design and Analysis of Clinical Trial. Joint UBC/SFU Seminar, Vancouver, BC. Valéry Dongmo Jiongo (2010). Robust small area estimation. SSC Annual Meeting, Quebec, Canada, May. Zeinab Mashreghi (2010). Bootsrap variance estimation in the presence of imputed data. SSC Annual Meeting, Quebec, Canada, May. Audrey Béliveau (2010). Nonparametric estimation of the response probabilities in surveys. SSC Annual Meeting, Quebec, Canada, May. Audrey Béliveau (2010). Nonparametric estimation of the response probabilities in surveys. Joint Statistical Meetings, Vancouver, Canada, August. Mariaca Hajuducek (2010). Duration analysis for longitudinal survey data using the Cox model. Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting, Quebec, Canada, May. Lin, W., Lu, H and Xu, X (2010). Metabolism of Bradykinin and des-Arg9-bradykinin: contribution to the pathophysiology of angiooedema associated with ACE inhibitors. SSC Annual Meeting, Quebec, Canada, May. Meng, G., Law, J. and Thompson, M.E. (2010). CCHS data handling for geographical analysis of social and environmental determinants of adverse birth outcomes. Presented at the Canadian Public Health Association Annual Conference, Toronto, June 13-16, 2010. Zhijian Chen, Grace Yi and Changbao Wu (2010). Estimating Functions for Correlated Binary Data Analysis with Misclassified Responses. SSC Annual Meeting, Quebec, Canada, May. Abbas KKhalili (2009). Feature Selection in Finite Mixture of Sparse Normal Linear Models in High Dimensional Feature Space. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Montreal. Invited talk, February 18, 2009. Abbas KKhalili (2009). A New Estimation and Variable Selection Method in Mixture-of-Experts Models. Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting, UBC, Vancouver. Contributed talk, June 3, 2009. Dagmar Mariaca Hajducek (2009). Fitting Cox models to jobless spell durations in SLID. Special contributed talk at Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting, Vancouver, May 31-June 3, 2009. Dagmar Mariaca Hajducek (2009). Loss to followup and Cox PH modeling of jobless spells from SLID. Contributed talk at Statistics Canada 25th Annual International Methodology Symposium, Gatineau, October 27-30, 2009. Yildiz Yilmaz (2009). Semiparametric estimation for sequential survival times. Contributed talk at Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting, Vancouver, May 31-June 3, 2009. Taslim Mallick (2009). Conditional weighted generalized quasi-likelihood inferences in incomplete longitudinal binary models. An invited talk given in the International Symposium in Statistics (ISS-2009) on inferences in GLLMMs, held in Memorial University from July 20 to 22, 2009. Rafiqul Chowdhury (2009). GQL versus HL approaches in generalized linear mixed models for count data. A contributed talk given in the International Symposium in Statistics (ISS-2009) on inferences in GLLMMs, held in Memorial University from July 20 to 22, 2009. Zhijian Chen (2009). Logistic regression analysis using complex survey data with misclassification in an ordeal covariate. Special contributed talk at Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting, Vancouver, May 31-June 3, 2009. Yan Liu (2009). Challenges in analyzing national longitudinal data: Cohort-sequential design and the application of sampling weights when using structural equation modelling (SEM). Special contributed talk at Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting, Vancouver, May 31-June 3, 2009. Zhijian Chen (2008). Analysis of Clustered Data with Response Measurement Error, Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting, Ottawa, May 28, 2008. Zhijian Chen (2008). Marginal Method for Incomplete Data from Longitudinal Genetic Association Studies. Poster Session, Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting, Ottawa, May 2008. Qian Michelle Zhou (2008). Hierarchical Bayes estimation for the Canadian Community Health Survey, Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting, Ottawa, May 29, 2008. Xin Cindy Feng (2008). Confidence intervals for proportions and quantiles, Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting, Ottawa, May 29, 2008. Ivan Carrillo Garcia (2008). Analysis of Longitudinal Surveys with Missing Responses, Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting, Ottawa, May 28, 2008. Taslim Mallick (2008). Analysis of incomplete longitudinal binary data subject to missing at random with application to SLID data, Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting, Ottawa, May 29, 2008. Y. Yilmaz (2008). Testing Goodness of Fit for Bivariate Copula Models, SSC Meeting, Ottawa, May 28, 2008. Pengfei Li (2007). EM-test in finite mixture models, Statistical Analysis of High-Throughput Genetic Data workshop in Banff, June 28, 2007. Pengfei Li (2007). EM-test in finite mixture models , Joint Statistical Meetings, Salt Lake City, July 29, 2007. Pengfei Li (2007). Homogeneity Test in Normal Mixture Models: the EM Approach , SSC Annual Conference in Ottawa, May 29, 2007. Carrillo, I. (2006). Analysis of Longitudinal Survey Data with Missing Observations. Invited presentation, Annual Meeting of Statistical Society of Canada, London, June 2006. Carrillo, I. and Wu, C. (2006). Analysis of Longitudinal Survey Data with Missing Responses. Invited presentation, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, November, 2006. Pantoja-Galicia, N. (2006). Assessing the temporal association of events using longitudinal complex surveys. MOLS 2006 conference, July, 2006. Roberts, G., Rao, J.N.K. and Ren, Q. (2006). Goodness-of-fit tests of marginal logistic models for longitudinal complex survey data. Invited Presentation, Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meetings, London, Ontario, May 2006. Carrillo, I., Chu, C., Su, W. and Xie, X. (2005). Case Study on Analysis of the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth. SSC Annual Meeting, Saskatoon, June 14, 2005. Lu, W.(2005). Limiting the Risk of Data Disclosure through Variance Replicate Weights in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys. 18th Annual Conference of the Greek Statistical Institute, Rhodes, Greece, 2005. Lu, W. (2005). Limiting the Risk of Data Disclosure through Variance Replicate Weights in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys. 3rd EMR-IBS International Conference, Corfu, Greece, 2005. Pantoja, N., Thompson, M.E. and Kovacevic, M. (2005). Bivariate Density Estimation from a Longitudinal Complex Survey: Example of Testing for Temporal Association of Job Loss and Divorce Using SLID. Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting, Saskatoon, June, 2005. Ren, Q. (2005). Analysis of Longitudinal Binary Survey Data. Invited Presentation, Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meetings, Saskachewan, June 2005. Dohrmann, S., Sitter, R.R., Mohadjer, L., Montaquila, J., Curtin, L.R. and Lu, W. (2004). Limiting the Risk of Data Disclosure By Using Swapping Techniques in Variance Estimation. Presentation at the Survey Research Methods Section, 2004 Joint Statistical Meetings, Toronto, ON, August, 2004. Lu, I.R.R. (2004). A Monte-Carlo Comparison of Conventional Two-Step Score Regression and Structural Equation Modeling: Examining Biases in the Latent Variable Regressions. Poster presented at the 2004-05 SAMSI Meeting, Research Triangle Park, Program on Latent Variables in the Social Sciences, September 11-14, 2004. Lu, I.R.R. (2004). Latent Variable Modeling in Social Science Research: A Comparison of Regression Based on IRT and CTT Scores with Structural Equation Models. Seminar presented at Statistics Canada, August 4, 2004. Lu, W. and Sitter, R.R. (2004). Replicate Weights and Disclosure Control. Contributed presentation at 2004 Statistical Society of Canada Annual meeting, Montreal, QC, June 2004. Wang, Z. and Belhouse, D.R. (2004). The Use of Shift Function Plots to Test the Equality of Semi-Parametric Regression Curves for Survey Data. Presentation at the Survey Research Methods Section, 2004 Joint Statistical Meetings, Toronto, ON, August, 2004. Lu, I.R.R. (2003). Modern Psychometric Measurement Methods. Talk presented at the MITACS/NPCDS/Statistics Canada Workshop on Statistical Methods for Complex Surveys, Centre de Recherches Mathematiques, Universite de Montreal, April 30. Wiens, D., and Xu. X. (2003). Robust Design in Accelerated Life Testing. MITACS 4th Annual Conference & Ottawa Interchange, Ottawa, ON, May, 2003.