Publications - Statistical Methods for Complex Survey Data

A) Refereed Contributions Articles in refereed publications Mulayath, A., Chen, J. and Abraham, B. (2010). Empirical Likelihood Based Variable Selection. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inferences. 140, 971-981. Chen, H., Chen, J. and Chen, S. (2010). Confidence Intervals for the Mean of a Population Containing Many Zero Values Under Unequal Probability Sampling. The Canadian Journal of Statistics. In press. Chen, J., van Eeden, C. and Zidek, J. (2010) Uncertainty and the Conditional Variance. Probability and Statistics Letters. In press. Khalili, A., Chen, J. and Lin, S. (2010). Feature Selection in Finite Mixture of Sparse Normal Linear Models in High Dimensional Feature Space. Biostatistics. Accepted. Li, X., Chen, J., Wu, Y. and Tu, D. (2010). Constructing Nonparametric Likelihood Confidence Regions. Statistica Sinica. Accepted. Li, P. and Chen, J. (2010). Testing the order of a finite mixture. Journal of American Statistical Association. In press. Cadigan, N. G. and Chen, J. (2010). Simple kernel regression estimators with improved statistical properties. Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice. In press. Liu, Y. and Chen, J. (2010). Adjusted Empirical Likelihood with High-Order Precision. Annuals of Statistics. 38, 1341-1362. Jiahua Chen and Pengfei Li. (2010). Theory Behind the EM-test of the Order of a Finite Mixture. Submitted to special issue of CJS. HAZIZA, D. and RAO, J.N.K. (2010). Variance estimation in two-stage sampling under imputation for missing survey data. Invited submission to Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice (H.C. Gupta memorial special issue). HAZIZA, D., NAMBEU, C.-O. and CHAUVET, G. (2010). Single imputation procedures when the population contains a large amount of zeroes. Submitted to Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. KIM, J.K. and HAZIZA, D. (2010). Doubly robust inference with missing data in survey sampling. Submitted to Biometrika. CHAUVET, G., DEVILLE J.-C. and HAZIZA, D. (2010). Adapting the Cube algorithm for balanced imputation in surveys. Submitted to Computational Statistics. HAZIZA, D. and PICARD, F. (2010), Doubly robust point and variance estimation in the presence of imputed survey data. Submitted to Canadian Journal of Statistics. CHAUVET, G., DEVILLE J.-C. and HAZIZA, D. (2010). On balanced random imputation in surveys. Submitted to Biometrika after revision. TILLÉ, Y. and HAZIZA, D. (2010). An interesting property of the entropy of some sampling designs. To appear in Survey Methodology. HAZIZA, D., CHAUVET, G. and DEVILLE J.-C. (2010). A note on sampling and estimation in the presence of cut-off sampling. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 52, 303-319. BEAUMONT, J.-F., HAZIZA, D. and BOCCI, C. (2010). Variance estimation under auxiliary value imputation. To appear in Statistica Sinica. THOMPSON, K.J., YUNG, W and HAZIZA, D. (2010). The effect of nonresponse adjustments on variance estimation. Survey Methodology, 36, 35-43. JF Lawless and D Mariaca Hajducek (2010). Analysis of durations in longitudinal studies with intermittent ascertainment of information and loss to followup. Submitted for publication. JF Lawless and D Mariaca Hajducek (2010). Estimation of duration distributions from longitudinal survey panels subject to loss to followup. Submitted for publication. Reid, N. and Sun, Y. (2010). Assessing sensitivity to priors using higher order approximation. Commun. Statist. A, 39, 1373 - 1386. Yun-Yi, G. and Reid, N. (2010). A note on misspecified estimating equations. Statistica Sinica 20, 1749--1769. Sutradhar, B.C., Rao, R.P., and Pandit, V.N. (2010). Inferences in longitudinal mixed models for survey data. J. of Indian Society of Agriculture Statistics, in memory of Dr. G. Seth, 64, 177-189. Bari, W. and Sutradhar, B.C. (2010). Robust inferences in longitudinal models for binary and count panel data in the presence of outliers. Sankhya B, 72, 11-37. Lu, Irene R.R., Thomas, D. Roland, Kwan, E. and Cedzynski, M. (2010). Two new methods for estimating structural equation models: An illustration and a comparison to two established methods. Under second review by International Journal of Research in Marketing. Meng, G., Law, J. and Thompson, M.E. (2010). Small-scale health-related indicator acquisition using secondary data spatial interpolation. Accepted to appear in, and published in preliminary form on website of, International Journal of Health Geographics 9:50. Pantoja-Galicia, N. and Thompson, M.E. (2010). Using local likelihood density estimation for bias correction at or near a boundary. Submitted. Wang, Z. and Thompson, M.E. (2010). A resampling approach to estimate variance components of multilevel models. Submitted. Wu, C., Thompson, M.E., Fong, G.T., Jiang, Y., Yan, Y., Feng, G. and Li, Q. (2010). Methods of the International Tobacco Control (ITC) China Survey. Tobacco Control, 19 (Suppl 2), 1-5. Rao, J.N.K. and Wu, C. (2010). Bayesian Pseudo Empirical Likelihood Intervals for Complex Surveys. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 72, 533-544. Qin, Y.S., Rao, J.N.K. and Wu, C. (2010). Empirical Likelihood Confidence Intervals for the Gini Measure of Income Inequality. Economic Modelling, 27, 1429-1435. Wu, C. and Rao, J.N.K. (2010). Bootstrap Procedures for the Pseudo Empirical Likelihood Method in Sample Surveys. Statistics and Probability Letters, 80, 1472-1478. Rao, J.N.K. and Wu, C. (2010). Pseudo Empirical Likelihood Inference for Multiple Frame Surveys. Journal of the American Statistical Association, to appear. Carrillo, I.A., Chen, J. and Wu, C. (2010). The Pseudo-GEE Approach to the Analysis of Longitudinal Surveys. he Canadian Journal of Statistics, to appear. Carrillo, I.A., Chen, J. and Wu, C. (2010). Pseudo-GEE Approach to Analyzing Longitudinal Surveys under Imputation for Missing Responses. Journal of Official Statistics, under review. Chen, Z., Yi, G.Y. and Wu, C. (2010). Marginal Methods for Correlated Binary Data with Misclassified Responses. Biometrika, under revision. Kim, J.K. and Wu, C. (2010). A Unified Approach to Replication Variance Estimation for Complex Surveys. The Canadian Journal of Statistics, under revision. Li, X., Chen, J. Wu, Y., and Tu, D. (2009). Constructing Confidence Regions with High Order Precision by Adjusted Exponential Empirical Likelihood. Submitted. Khalili, A., Chen, J. and Lin, S. (2009). Feature Selection in Finite Mixture of Sparse Normal Linear Models in High Dimensional Feature Space. Submitted. Chen, J. and Chen, Z. (2009). Extended BIC for small-n-large-P sparse GLM. Submitted. Liu, Y. and Chen, J. (2009). Adjusted Empirical Likelihood with High-Order Precision. Annuals of Statistics. Accepted. Zhu, H., Zhou, H., Chen, J., Li, Y., and Styner, N. (2009). Adjusted exponentially tilted likelihood with applications to brain morphology. Biometrics. 65, 919-927. Chen, Z. and Chen, J. (2009). Tournament screening cum EBIC for feature selection with high dimensional feature spaces. Science in China, Series A: Mathematics. 52, 1327-1341. Chen, J. and Tan X. (2009). Inference for multivariate normal mixtures. Journal of Multivariate Analysis. 100, 1367-1383. Fu, Y., Chen, J., and Kalbfleisch, J.D. (2009). Modified likelihood ratio test for homogeneity in a two-sample problem. Statistica Sinica. 19, 1603-1619. Li, P., Chen, J., and Marriot, P. (2009). Non-finite Fisher information and homogeneity: the EM approach. Biometrika, 96, 411-426. Haziza, D., Thompson, K.J. and Yung, W. (2009). The effect of nonresponse adjustments on variance estimation. Survey Methodology, to appear. Haziza, D. (2009). Imputation and inference in the presence of missing data. Handbook of Statistics, Volume 29 A, Sample Surveys: Theory Methods and Inference, Editors: C.R. Rao and D. Pfeffermann. Hidiroglou, M.A., Rao, J.N.K. and Haziza, D. (2009). Variance estimation in two phase sampling. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 51, 127-141. Haziza, D. and Picard, F. (2009). On doubly robust point and variance estimation in the presence of imputed data. Submitted for publication to Scandinavian Journal of Statistics. Chauvet, G., Deville, J.C. and Haziza, D. (2009). On balanced random imputation in surveys. In revision for Biometrika. Haziza, D., Chauvet, G. and Deville, J.C. (2009). A note on sampling and estimation in the presence of cut-off sampling. In revision for Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics. Lawless, J.F. and Yilmaz, Y.E. (2009). Semiparametric estimation and tests of fit in copula models for sequential survival data. Submitted for publication. Yilmaz, Y.E. and Lawless, J.F. (2009). Tests of fit for multivariate survival models based on copulas. Submitted for publication. Sutradhar, B. C. (2009). Inferences in generalized linear longitudinal mixed models. To appear in the 2009 Symposium (ISS) issue of The Canadian Journal of Statistics. Sutradhar, B. C. and Mallick, T. (2009). Modified weights based generalized quasi-likelihood inferences in incomplete longitudinal binary models. To appear in the 2009 Symposium (ISS) issue of The Canadian Journal of Statistics. Mallick, T. and Sutradhar, B. C. and Kovacevic, M. (2009). Modified weights based GQL inferences for incomplete longitudinal survey data. Under revision. Chowdhury, R. I. and Sutradhar, B. C. (2009). GQL versus HL approaches in generalized linear mixed models for count data. To appear in Sankhya B: The Indian Journal of Statistics. Sutradhar, B. C., Viveros-Aguilera, R. and Mallick, T. (2009). Asymptotic efficiency of the GQL versus ML inferences in familial-longitudinal models for binary data. Submitted. Pantoja-Galicia, N., Thompson, M. E. and Kovacevic, M. (2009). Assessing the temporal association of events using complex longitudinal surveys. In P. Lynn, Ed. (2009) Methodology of Longitudinal Surveys. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 333-250. Godambe, V. P. and Thompson, M. E. (2009). Estimating functions and survey sampling. In C. R. Rao and D. Pfeffermann, Eds. Handbook of Statistics. Sample Surveys: Inference and Analysis Volume 29B. Elsevier, 669-687. Wang, Z. and Thompson, M. E. (2009). A resampling approach to estimate variance components of multilevel models. 36 pages, double spaced. Submitted. Pantoja Galicia, N. and Thompson, M. E. (2009). Using local likelihood density estimation for bias correction at and near a boundary. In preparation for submission. Meng, G., Thompson, M. E. and Pantoja Galicia, N. (2009). Local likelihood estimation of a spatial intensity discontinuous at a natural boundary. In preparation for submission. Boudreau, C., Thompson, M. E. and Iraniparast, M. (2009). Propensity score weight adjustment for dual sampling frame. In preparation for submission. Wang, Z. and Bellhouse, D. (2009). Semiparametric regression model for complex survey data. Survey Methodology, to appear. Wang, Z. and Bellhouse, D. (2009). Shift functions for regression fit. Submitted to Survey Methodology. Qin, Y.S., Rao, J.N.K. and Wu, C. (2009). Empirical Likelihood Confidence Intervals for the Gini Measure of Income Inequality. Economic Modelling, invited submission. Rao, J.N.K. and Wu, C. (2009). Bayesian Pseudo Empirical Likelihood Intervals for Complex Surveys. Submitted. Wu, C. and Rao, J.N.K. (2009). Bootstrap Procedures for the Pseudo Empirical Likelihood Method in Sample Surveys. Submitted. Rao, J.N.K. and Wu, C. (2009). Pseudo Empirical Likelihood Inference for Multiple Frame Surveys. Submitted. Wu, C., Thompson, M.E., Fong, G.T., Jiang, Y., Yan, Y., Feng, G. and Li, Q. (2009). Methods of the International Tobacco Control (ITC) China Survey. Tobacco Control, to appear. Rao, J.N.K. and Wu, C. (2009). Empirical Likelihood Methods. Book chapter in Handbook of Statistics, Volume 29B, Sample Surveys: Inference and Analysis, editors: D. Pfeffermann and C.R. Rao, 189-207. Fu, Y., Wang, X. and Wu, C. (2009). Weighted Empirical Likelihood Inference for Multiple Samples. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 139, 1462-1473. Chen, J. and Khalili, A. (2008). Order selection in finite mixture models. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 103, 1674-1683. Chen, J. and Li, P. (2008). Hypothesis test for Normal Mixture Models: the EM Approach. Annals of Statistics. 37, 2523-2542. Pan, J. and Chen, J. (2008). U-statistic based modified information criterion for change point problems. Communication in Statistics- Theory and Methods. 37, 2687 - 2712. Chen, J. and Qin, Y. (2008). Test of homogeneity for finite mixture models with Hardy-Weinberg proportions. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inferences, 138, 3774-3788. Beaumont, J.-F., Haziza, D. and Bocci, C. (2008). Variance estimation under auxiliary value imputation. In revision for Statistica Sinica. Irene R. R. Lu, D. Roland Thomas, Marzena Cedzynski and Ernest Kwan (2008). The PLS-CBSEM Debate and an Investigation of Alternative Methods. Under revision for journal re-submission. Thompson, M. E. (2008). International surveys: motives and methodologies. Survey Methodology 34, 131-141. Chen, J., Mulayath, A. and Bovas, A. (2008). Adjusted empirical likelihood and its Properties. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 17, 426-443. Fu, Y., Chen, J., and Kalbfleisch, J.D. (2008). Modified likelihood ratio test for homoeneity in a two-sample problem. Statistica Sinica. Accepted. Li, P., Chen, J., and Marriot, P. (2008). Non-finite Fisher information and homogeneity: the EM approach. Biometrika. Accepted. Fu, Y., Chen, J., and Li, P. (2008). Modified likelihood ratio test for homogeneity in a mixture of von Mises distributions. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 138, 667-681. Chen, J., Li, P. and Fu, Y. (2008). Tests for homogeneity in a mixture of von Mises distributions in the presence of a structural parameter. The Canadian Journal of Statistics, 36, 129-142. Chen, J. and Chen, Z. (2008). Extended Bayesian information criterion for model selection with large model space. Biometrika. 95, 759-771. Hongtu Zhu, Haibo Zhou, Jiahua Chen, Yimei Li, Martin Styner (2008). Adjusted exponentially tilted likelihood with applications to brain morphology. Biometrics. Accepted. Chen, J., Tan, X. and Zhang, R. (2008). Consistency of penalized MLE for normal mixtures in mean and variance. Statistica Sinica. 18, 443-465. Pan, J. and Chen, J. (2008). U-statistic based modified information criterion for change point problems. Communication in Statistics-Theory and Methods. 37, 2687-2712. Haziza, D. (2008). Imputation and inference in the presence of missing data. To appear in Handbook of Statistics, Volume 29, Sample Surveys: Theory Methods and Inference, Editors: C.R. Rao and D. Pfeffermann. Hidiroglou, M.A., Rao, J.N.K. and Haziza, D. (2008). Variance estimation in two phase sampling. To appear in Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics. Haziza, D., Mecatti, F. and Rao, J.N.K. (2008). Approximate variance estimators under the Rao-Sampford design. Metron, 66, 91-108. Lu, W.W. and Sitter, R.R. (2008). Disclosure Risk and Replication-based Variance Estimation. Statistica Sinica. Vol. 18, pp 1669-1687. Sutradhar, B. C. (2008). Inferences in familial Poisson mixed models for survey data. To appear in Sankhya B. Sutradhar, B. C. and Mallick, T. (2008). Conditional weighted generalized quasilikelihood inferences in incomplete longitudinal binary models. Revised for Biometrika. Lu, Irene, R.R. and Thomas, D.R. (2008). Regression analysis with latent variables: The wrong way and some right ways. Canadian Journal of Marketing Research (Accepted January 15, 2008). Thomas, D.R., Zhu, P.C., Zumbo, B.D. and Dutta, S. (2008). On measuring the relative importance of explanatory variables in a logistic regression. Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods (Accepted November, 2007). Lu, Irene R.R. and Thomas, D.R. (2008). Avoiding and correcting bias in score-based latent variable regression. Structural Equation Modeling, 15, 462-490. Thompson, M.E. and Wu, C. (2008). Simulation-based Randomized Systematic PPS Sampling Under Substitution of Units. Survey Methodology, 34, 3-10. Wu, C. and Xu, B. (2008). Deflator Selection and Generalized Linear Modelling in Market-based Regression Analysis. Applied Financial Economics, in press. Zehua Chen, Jiahua Chen and Jianjun Liu. (2007). A tournament approach to the detection of multiple associations in genome-wide studies with pedigree data. Submitted. Khalili, A. and Chen, J. (2007). Variable selection in finite mixture of regression models. Journal of American Statistical Association. 102, 1025-1038. Feng, Z., Chen, J., and Thompson, M. E. (2007). Asymptotic properties of the likelihood ratio test statistics with the possible triangle constraint in Affected-Sib-Pair analysis. The Canadian Journal of Statistics. 35, 351-364 Chen, J. and Rao, J.N.K. (2007). Asymptotic Normality Under Two-phase Sampling Designs. Statistica Sinica, 17, 1047-1064. Haziza, D. (2007). Variance estimation for a ratio in the presence of imputed data. Survey Methodology, 33, 159-166. Haziza, D. and Kuromi, G. (2007). Handling item nonresponse in surveys. Journal of Case Studies in Business, Industry and Government statistics, 1, 102-118. Haziza, D. and Beaumont, J-F. (2007). On the construction of imputation classes in surveys. International Statistical Review, 75, 25-43. Lawless, J.F. (2007). Weighting and Survival Estimation From Survey Data. Submitted. M.J. Crowder and J.F. Lawless (2007). On a scheme for predictive maintenance. Europ. J. Oper. res. 16, 1713-1722. G.Y. Yi and J.F. Lawless (2007). A corrected likelihood method for the proportional hazards model with covariates subject to measurement error. J. Statist. Plan. Inf., 137, 1816-1828. M. Fredette and J.F. Lawless (2007). Finite horizon prediction of recurrent events with application to forecasts of warranty claims. Technometrics, 49, 66-80. R.J. Cook and J.F. Lawless (2007). The Statistical Analysis of Recurrent Events. Springer, New York. Sutradhar, B. C. (2007). On forecasting counts. Journal of Forecasting, In Press. Mallick, T. S., and Sutradhar, B. C. (2007). GQL versus conditional GQL inferences for non-stationary time series of counts with overdispersion. Journal of Time Series Analysis, In Press. Sutradhar, B. C. , and Jowaheer, V. (2007). Inferences for multiple treatments when repeated binary responses in clinical trials follow a dynamic logistic model. Submitted. Thomas, D.R., Zhu, P.C. and Decady, Y.J. (2007). Point estimates and confidence intervals for variable importance in multiple linear regression. Journal of Behavioral and Educational Statistics, 32 (1), 61-91. Thomas, D.R., Lu, I.R.R. and Cedzynski, M. (2007). A critique of Partial Least Squares, and a preliminary assessment of an alternative estimation method. Under second review by Structural Equation Modeling. Lu, I.R.R. and Thomas, D.R. (2007). Avoiding and Correcting Bias in Score-Based Latent Variable Regression with Discrete Manifest Items. Structural Equation Modeling, accepted. Thomas, D.R., Zhu, P.C. and Decady, Y.J. (2007). Point estimates and confidence intervals for variable importance in multiple linear regression. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 32 (1), 61-91. Orser, B., Cedzynski, M. and Thomas, D.R. (2007). Modelling owner experience: Linking theory and practice. Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, 20(4), in press. Wang, Z. and Belhouse, D. (2007). Semiparametric regression models for complex surveys. Submitted to Statistica Sinica. Wang, Z. and Belhouse, D. (2007). Shift function plots for complex surveys. Submitted to Survey Methodology. Bellhouse, D.R., Chipman, H. and Stafford, J.E. (2006). Smoothing and additive models for survey data. The Canadian Journal of Statistics. Revised. Pan, J. and Chen, J. (2006). Application of modified information criterion to multiple change point problems. Journal of Multivariate Analysis. 97, 2221-2241. Chen, J., Li, P. and Tan, X. (2006). Inference for von Mises mixture in mean direction and concentration parameters. Journal of System¡¯s Science and Mathematics. 27, 59-67. Chen, J., Gupta, A .J. and Pan, J. (2006). Information criterion and change point problem for regular models. Sankhya, 68, 252-282. Fu, Y., Chen, J. and Kalbfleisch, J. D. (2006). Testing for homogeneity in genetic linkage analysis. Statistica Sinica. 19, 805-824. Boudreau, C. and Lawless, J.F. (2006). Survival Analysis Based on the Proportional Hazards Model and Survey Data. The Canadian Journal of Statistics, 34, 203-216. Funaoka, F., Saigo, H., Sitter, R.R. and Toida, T. (2006). Bernoulli Bootstrap for Stratified Multistage Sampling. Survey Methodolog, 32, No. 2, 151-156. Haziza, D. and Rao, J.N.K. (2006). A non-response model approach to inference under imputation for missing survey data. Survey Methodology, 32, 53-64. Lin, C.D., Lu, W. and Sitter, R.R. (2006). Fast Approximately Balanced Bootstrap without Construction. Statistics and Probability Letters, 76, 1861-1872. Linkletter, C. and Sitter, R.R. (2006). Predicting Natural Gas Production in the Presence of Reporting Delays. Journal of Official Statistics, 1st revision. Lohr, S. and Rao, J.N.K. (2006). Estimation in multiple frame surveys. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 101, 1019-1030. Berger, Y, and Rao, J.N.K. (2006). Adjusted jackknife for imputation under unequal probability sampling without replacement. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 68, 531-547. Lu, I.R.R. and Thomas, D.R. (2006). Parameter Biases in Latent Variable Regression: A Comparison of Score Based Two-Step Methods with Structural Equation Modeling Methods. Structural Equation Modeling. Submitted. Lu, W., Brick, M. and Sitter, R.R. (2006). Algorithms for Constructing Combined Strata Variance Estimators. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 101, 1680-1692. Pantoja-Galicia, N., Thompson, M. E. and Kovacevic, M. (2006) Assessing the temporal association of events using longitudinal complex surveys. Resubmitted to Methodology of Longitudinal Surveys (MOLS 2006) Monograph, Wiley. Roberts, G., Ren. Q. and Rao, J.N.K. (2006). Using marginal mean models with data from a longitudinal survey having a complex design: some advances in methods. Monograph paper, Methods of Longitudinal Surveys, Wiley (in press). Sutradhar, B.C. and Kovacevic, M. (2006). Generalized Quasilikelihood Approach for Incomplete Longitudinal Binary Data. Submitted. Sutradhar, B.C. and Kovacevic, M. (2006). Conditional Weighted Generalized Quasilikelihood Inferences for Binary Longitudinal Survey Data Subject to MAR. Revised. Sutradhar, B. C., and Jowaheer, V. (2006). Analyzing longitudinal count data from adaptive clinical trials: a weighted generalized quasi-likelihood approach. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulations, 76, December 2006, 1079-1093. Sutradhar, B. C. and Mallick, T. (2006). Conditional Weighted Generalized Quasilikelihood Infernces in Incomplete Longitudinal Binary Models. Submitted. Thomas, D.R., Zhu, P.C. and Decady, Y.J. (2006). Point estimates and confidence intervals for variable importance in multiple linear regression. Journal of Behavioral and Educational Statistics (in press). Tsao, M. and Wu, C. (2006). Empirical Likelihood Interference for a Common Mean in the Presence of Heteroscedasticity. The Canadian Journal of Statistics, 34, 45-59. Wang, Z. and Bellhouse, D.R. (2006). Semiparametric Regression Model for Complex Survey Data. Submitted. Wang, Z. and Bellhouse, D.R. (2006). Shift Function Plots for Regression Fitting. Submitted. Wu, C. and Rao, J.N.K. (2006). Pseudo Empirical Likelihood Ratio Confidence Intervals for Complex Surveys. The Canadian Journal of Statistics, 34, 359-375. Benhin, E., Rao, J.N.K. and Scott, A.J. (2005). Mean estimating equation approach to analyzing cluster-correlated data with non-ignorable cluster sizes. Biometrika, 92, 435-450. Dohrmann, S., Lu, W., Park, I., Sitter, R.R., and Curtin, L.R. (2005). Variance Estimation and Data Disclosure Issues in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys. Journal of Official Statistics, 1st revision. Haziza, D. and Rao, J.N.K. (2005). Inference for domains under imputation for missing survey data. Canadian Journal of Statistics, 33, 149-161. Rao, J.N.K. (2005). Interplay between sample survey theory and practice. Survey Methodolgy, 31, 117-138. Saigo, H. and Sitter, R.R. (2005). Jackknife Variance Estimator with Reimputation for Randomly Imputed Survey Data. Statistics and Probability Letters, 73, 321-331. Wu, C. (2005). Algorithms and R Codes for the Pseudo Empirical Likelihood Method in Survey Sampling. Survey Methodology, 31, 239-243. Biswas, A. and Rao, J.N.K. (2004). Missing responses in adaptive allocation design. Statistics and Probability Letters, 70, 59-70. Lu, I.R.R., Thomas, D.R., & Zumbo, B.D. (2004). Embedding IRT in Structural Equation Models: A Comparison with Regression Based on IRT Scores. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, in press. Wu, C. (2004). Some Algorithmic Aspects of the Empirical Likelihood Method in Survey Sampling. Statistica Sinica, 14, 1057-1067. B) Non-refereed Contributions Papers in non-refereed conference proceedings Pengfei Li and Jiahua Chen. (2010). Tuning the EM-test for the order of finite mixture models. Accepted as a chapter in Conference book. Chen Xu, Jiahua Chen and Harold Mental. (2010). Smoothly clipped absolute deviation in analysis of survey data. Proceedings of the Survey Methods Section, SSC Annual Meeting 2010. Chen Xu. (2010). Penalized likelihood methods for variable selection in analysis of survey data. Technical report, Statistics Canada. MITACS/STATCAN Internship Program. HAZIZA, D. (2010). Resampling methods for variance estimation in the presence of missing survey data. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Italian Statistical Society. KIM, J.K. and HAZIZA, D. (2010). Doubly robust inference with missing data in survey sampling. To appear in the Proceedings of the Joint Statistical Meetings, American Statistical Association. JF Lawless and D Mariaca Hajducek (2010). Modelling and analysis of durations based on longitudinal survey data. Proceedings of Statistics Canada Symposium 2009: Longitudinal Surveys, from Design to Analysis. Lin W. (2009). Higher order likelihood inference in small sample cases. Provided Sweave document for the examples and worked out solutions for a number of the exercises of book "Applied Asymptotics: Case Studies in Small-Sample Statistics" by A.R. Brazzale, A.C. Davison and N. Reid. Meng, G., Thompson, M.E. and Pantoja Galicia, N. (2010). Local likelihood estimation of a spatial intensity/density discontinuous at a natural boundary. 21 pp. In preparation. Beaumont, J.-F., Haziza, D. and Ruiz-Gazen, A. (2009). A unified approach to robust estimation in finite population sampling. To appear in the Proceedings of the 57th Session of ISI Conference, Durban, South Africa. Irene R. Lu, D. Roland Thomas, Ernest Kwan (2009). A Comparison of Component and Covariance-Based Structural Equation Modeling Approaches: Bias and Confidence Interval Coverage. International Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Cambridge, England. Wu, C. and Rao, J.N.K. (2009). Empirical likelihood methods for inference from multiple frame surveys. Proceedings of the 57th Session of ISI Conference, Durban, South Africa. Wu, C. and Rao, J.N.K. (2008). Pseudo empirical likelihood inference for multiple surveys and multiple frame surveys. Proceedings of the Workshop on Calibration and Estimation in Surveys, Ottawa, Canada. Wu, C. (2008). Multiple-Frame Sampling. Contribution to Encyclopedia of Survey Research Methods, editor: Paul J. Lavrakas, 488-489. Haziza, D. and Picard, F. (2008). Jackknife variance estimation in the presence of imputed data. To appear in the Proceedings of the Workshop on Calibration and Estimation in Surveys. Haziza, D., Kuromi, G. and BÉRUBÉ, J. (2007). Sampling and estimation in the the presence of tax data in business surveys. Proceedings of the International Conference on Establishment Surveys II, CD-ROM. R.J. Cook and J.F. Lawless (2007). Discussion of "Analysis of longitudinal data with drop-outs: objectives, assumptions and a proposal", by Diggle et al. Appl. Statist., 56, 539-540. Carrillo, I. 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