Special Topics Sessions

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The following have been approved as STS topics:

Session Code

Short title

Organiser

STS01

Theory and Practice of Randomized Response

Christofides Tasos

STS02

Uncertainty and Industry and Statistics

Alberto Pasanisi

STS03

The roles of tax data in official statistics

Michael Slyuzberg

STS04

Interfacing astrophysics and statistics - forging the discipline of astrostatistics

Joseph Hilbe

STS05

Applied Sequential Methodologies - 1

Nitis Mukhopadhyay

STS06

Applied Sequential Methodologies - 2

Nitis Mukhopadhyay

STS07

Toward the Development of Training and Education Course Modules on Tourism Statistics

Scott Meis

STS08

Statistical Literacy, Critical Numeracy and Social Statistics

Milo Schield

STS09

Advances Techniques for Modelling Maternal and Child Health in Africa

Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala

STS10

Developments & Extensions to Tourism Satellite Account

Steve MacFeely

STS11

Developments in Consumer Price Index methodology

Steve MacFeely

STS12

House Price Indices

Niall O’Hanlon

STS13

Web based Statistical Knowledge Management : Virtual Statistical System

Ronald Luttikhuizen

STS14

Non-parametic analysis in astrostatistical research

Thomas David Kitching

STS15

What it takes to Improve a Statistical System"

Misha Belkindas

STS16

Understanding Changes in Purchasing Power Parities Over time

Frederic Vogel

STS17

Standardization and integration of statistical production processes

Daniel Defays

STS18

Migration statistics

Inna Steinbuka

STS19

Spatial statistics and its applications

Günter Schäfer

STS20

Statistical cooperation after the financial crisis

James Whitworth

STS21

Modern dissemination and communication tools (outcomes of the sponsorship)

Pieter Everaers

STS22

Key indicators as main tools for communicating statistics to policy makers

Pieter Everaers

STS23

Statistical indicators for monitoring of sustainable development

Ales Capek

STS24

Quality assurance in official statistics: recent developments and challenges

Antonio Baigorri  with Michael Colledge

STS25

Analysing Internet Traffic Flows and digital footprints for statistical purposes

Michail Skaliotis with Vincenzo Spiezia

STS26

Multidimensional measures of quality of life

Inna Steinbuka

STS28

Creators of Statistics - the Irish Connection

Prof Phil Boland

STS29

Census Data Capture Issues in the 2010 Population and Housing Censuses

Sam Suharto with  Margaret Mbogoni

STS30

Seasonal adjustment in practice

Gary Brown

STS31

Modeling and Analysis of Complex Data Objects

Victor Panaretos

STS32

Measuring the Risk of Disclosure

Joe Fred Gonzalez

STS33

Statistical models for marketing research

Francesca Bassi

STS34

The role of subject attitudes in learning statistics: empirical evidence

Pieternella S.(Nel) Verhoeven

STS35

Current Trends in Statistical Analysis for Marketing Problems

Nalini Ravishanker

STS36

Democracy and Statistics

Evdokia Xekalaki with Ian Maclean

STS37

Census Evaluation in the 2010 round of Population and Housing Censuses

Jean-Michel Durr

STS38

Quality of Life and Daily Routines During Times of Change

Elsa Fontainha with Kimberly Fisher

STS39

Women in the Labor Market - Facts and Challenges in the Arab Region

Ola Awad

STS40

Statistical analysis of extremes  and its application

Natalia Markovich with Udo R. Krieger

STS41

Statistical Process Control (SPC) Research: Recent Advances and Future Directions

Subhabrata Chakraborti with Marien Alet Graham

STS42

Developments  in  epidemiological and statistical modeling relating to the control of bovine TB in cattle and wildlife badgers.

Gabrielle Kelly

STS43

:  Global Adult Tobacco Survey: Findings from BRIC countries

Krishna Mohan Palipudi

STS44

Methodological aspects on the architecture of official statistics production

Eva Elvers

STS45

Obtaining weights: from objective to subjective approaches in view of more participative methods in the construction of composite indicators of well-being

Filomena Maggino

STS46

Benefits and Challenges of Providing Online Systems that Analyze Confidential Survey and Census Microdata in Real Time

Jane Gentleman

STS47

Asymptotic properties of Bayesian nonparametric models

Igor Prünster

STS48

Statistical Support for Social Cohesion Policy

Beat Hulliger

STS49

Missing Dimensions of poverty data: International comparable survey module

Dr. Jose Manuel Roche

STS50

Methods and quality of administrative data used in a census

Anders Holmberg

STS51

Quality Management in Statistics Production

Federico Segui

STS52

Inferential tools based on model selection, shrinkage and related methods

Paul Kabaila  and Hannes Leeb

STS53

Does international statistics belong to a special branch of statistics?

Angela Me with Shaida Badiee and Haishan Fu

STS54

Hierarchical models for large environmental spatio-temporal databases

Andrew Finley

STS55

Measuring Globalisation Effects on Employment and Growth by Using Linked Employer-Employee Microdata of Enterprises, Jobs & Persons.

Martin Luppes

STS56

Methods for Left Censored Environmental Data

Dennis Helsel

STS57

Visualisation of Complex Data Sets

Catherine Hurley

STS58

Sampling Skewed Populations

Jane Horgan

STS59

R at the introductory level

Peter Dalgaard

STS60

Establishing “agile” statistical tools such as micro databases to facilitate responses to changing user demands.

Richard Walton

STS61

Tracking financial behaviour of investors (households, financial investors) and measurement of risk behaviour and aversion.

Rimantas Vaicenavicius

STS62

Measuring capital flows (including speculative flows)

Paul Van den Bergh

STS63

Short and Long Term Forecasting of Avalanche Hazard

Alessandro Fasso

STS64

African Demography: Structure, Change and Continuity

Clifford Odimegwu

STS65

Future microdata access

Markus Zwick

STS66

Firm's Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship: Methods, Sources and Statistical Analysis

Matilde Bini

STS67

Statistical Validation and Application of Socioeconomic Data from Household Surveys in Less Developed Countries

Gonçalves Dias with Sabu Padmadas

STS68

State Of The Art In Communicating Statistics

Richard Walton

 

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