Statistics Seminar
| Date/Time: | Monday, 14 Sep 2015 from 4:10 pm to 5:00 pm |
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| Location: | Snedecor 3105 |
| Cost: | Free |
| URL: | www.stat.iastate.edu |
| Phone: | 515-294-3440 |
| Channel: | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
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He will present a seminar on ways to solve major response problems now facing users of web survey methods. His talk emphasizes eight guidelines for using mixed-mode designs in order to improve the quality of survey data. It is based to a considerable extent on experimental research he has conducted in the last 15 years for designing state and national surveys. Some of this research is reported in his book, "Internet, Phone, Mail and Mixed-Mode Surveys: The Tailored Design Method, 4th edition (Dillman, Smyth and Christian, 2014, John Wiley Co.
Brief Bio: Don completed his Ph.D. in Sociology at ISU in 1969, and has been a faculty member at Washington State University since that time. He has spent his entire career working on the development of survey methods appropriate to the times, and from 1991-1995 served as the senior survey methodologist at the U.S. Census Bureau. He later served as president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research in 2001, and is a fellow of the American Statistical Association. He commented that his first survey experience was using maps prepared by the Iowa State Statistical laboratory to locate and interview farmers in Madison County during his graduate school years, and is looking forward to sharing his current research and how it might be applied.