A celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of William G. Cochran, founding member of the Harvard Statistics Department.

Date: Saturday, November 14, 2009

Talks: 1:15 PM to 6:15 PM

Dinner: 6:30 PM

Place: Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South Basement
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA

Program:

• 1:15-1:30
  Chair: Xiao-Li Meng
• Allan Brandt
  Harvard University
  Opening Remarks


• 1:30-3:00 Session I: Causal Inference, Experiments, Observational Studies
  Chair: Alan Zaslavsky
  • Michael Titterington
    University of Glasgow
    William Gemmell Cochran: His Origins and Contributions to Experimental Design
  • Donald Rubin
    Harvard University
    William G. Cochran's Contributions to the Design, Analysis, and Evaluation of Observational Studies


• 3:00-3:30 Coffee break


• 3:30-5:00 Session II: Sample Surveys
  Chair: Donald Rubin
  • Colm O'Muircheartaigh
    University of Chicago
    NEPISHU: The Trajectory of Sample Survey Design 1895-2009
  • Robert Groves
    U.S. Census Bureau
    Survey Research Adapting to a Population Increasingly Highly-Segmented, Socially-Disintegrated, and Heavily-Tracked with Transaction Data: A Modest Proposal
    


• 5:00-5:15 Short Break


• 5:15-6:15 Session III: Cochran as Father, Mentor and Colleague
  Chair: Xiao-Li Meng
  • Speeches and Remarks by family members, students and colleagues
  
  
• 6:30 Catered Buffet Dinner

Free and open to the public.

Special seminar from 10:00-11:00 AM by Jeremy Wu, U.S. Census Bureau, entitled Integrated and Synthetic Data - Part of Future Statistics? Location will be Science Center room 705. Here is the accompanying slide presentation.

Address inquiries and confirm attendence by email to:
symposiastat.harvard.edu.

Co-sponsored by the Program for Survey Research of the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS).