Publications and Proceedings

• Agans, R.P., Deeb-Sossa, N., Kalsbeek, W.D. (2006). Mexican immigrants and the use of cognitive assessment techniques in questionnaire development. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 28(2) .

• Kalsbeek, W.D., Boyle, W.R., Agans, R.P., White, J.E. (2006). Disproportionate sampling for population subgroups in telephone surveys. Statistics and Medicine.

• Wasserman, M.R., Bender, D.E., Kalsbeek, W.D., Suchindran, C.M., Mouw, T. (2006). A church-based sampling approach for research with latina immigrant women. Population Research and Policy Review, 25(2).

• Boyle, W.R., Kalsbeek, W.D. (2005). Extensions to the two-stratum model for sampling rare subgroups in telephone surveys. Proceedings of the American Statistical Association.

• Kuo Ping. L., Suchindran, C.M. (2005) . Comparison of spatial characteristics of local air quality report. Proceedings of the American Statistical Association.

• Vaish, A.K., Sathe, N., Folsom, R.E. (2004). Small area estimates of diabetes and smoking prevalence in north carolina counties: 1996:2002 behavioral risk factor surveillence system. Proceedings of the American Statistical Association.

• Deeb-Sossa, N., Agans, R.P., Butron-Riveros, B., Balcazar, H., & Buekens, P. (2004). Development and testing of interview questions to determine last menstrual period in mexican immigrant populations. Journal of Immigrant Health, 6(3) 127-136.
• Weathers, A., Minkovitz, C., O'Campo, P., & Diener-West, M. (2004). Access to care for children of migratory agricultural workers: Factors associated with unmet need for health care. Pediatrics, 113:E276.

  Kalsbeek, W.D. (2003). Sampling minority groups in health surveys. Statistics in Medicine, 22, 1527-1549.

• Condon, S., Suchindran, C.M. (2003). Spatial analysis of birth weight in north carolina. Proceedings of the American Statistical Association.

• Singh, A.C., Folsom, R.E., Vaish, A.K. (2003). Small area estimation from multiple surveys using the estimating fuction-based hierarchical bayes method. Proceedings of the American Statistical Association.

• Vaish. A.K., Folsom, R.E., Singh, A.C. (2003). A simulation study to compare unit-level linear mixed models methods for small area estimation for survey data . Proceedings of the American Statistical Association.

• Kalsbeek, W.D., Agans, R.P., Bowling, J.M., Pyles, A., Andraca, E., Pevzner, E., Ribisl, K.M. (2003). The influence of design on estimates of youth smoking behavior in school-based surveys. Proceedings of the American Statistical Association.

• Kalsbeek, W.D., Yang, J., Agans, R.P. (2002). Predictors of nonresponse in a longitudinal survey of adolescents. Proceedings of the American Statistical Association.

• Singh, A.C., Folsom, R.E., and Vaish, A.K. (2002, August).  A Hierarchical Bayes Generalization of the Fay-Herriot Method to Unit Level Nonlinear Mixed Models for Small Area Estimation.  Proceedings of the American Statistical Association.

• Kalsbeek, W., Morris, C., and Vaughn, B. (2001). Effects of Nonresponse on the Mean Squared Error of Estimates from a Longitudinal Study. Proceedings of the American Statistical Association.

• Suchindran, C. M., Leiss, J. K., and Salama, I. (2001). Alternative Methods for Record Linkage: Application to Linking Vital Records. Proceedings of the American Statistical Association.

• Kalsbeek, W., Agans, R., Bowers, A.., Suchindran, C., and Folsom R.E. (2000). An Interdisciplinary Center Addressing Statistical Issues in Health Research Aimed at High-Risk Populations. Proceedings of the American Statistical Association. 527-532.

• Kalsbeek, W., and Heiss, G. (2000). Building Bridges Between Populations and Samples in Epidemiological Studies. Annual Review of Public Health, 21:1-23.

• Folsom, R.E., Vaish, A.K., Sathe, N., Liu, J. (2003, February). Survey weighted brfss small area estimates for north carolina counties. 20th Annual BRFSS conference, St. Louis, MS.

• Singh, A.C., Folsom, R.E., Vaish, A.K. (2003, June). Robust small area estimation based on a survey weighted mcmc solution for the generalized linear mixed model. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington, DC.

• Folsom, R.E., Shah, B.V., Vaish, A.K., and Singh, A.C. (2002, March). Robustness Properties of Estimating Function Gausian Likelihood Based
  Hierarchical Bayes Modeling for Small Area Estimation with Survey Data. Presentation given at International Biometric Society Eastern North American Region, Arlington, VA.

• Singh A.C., Folsom R.E., and Vaish, A.K. (2002, June).  Estimating function based approach for hierarchical Bayes small area estimation with survey data. Presentation given at the Fourth Biennial International Conference on Statistics, Probability and Related Areas, Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, IL.

• Folsom R.E., Vaish, A.K., and Singh A.C. (2002, June).  Range Restricted Benchmarking of Small Area Estimates with BRFSS Data from North Carolina. Presentation given at the Fourth Biennial International Conference on Statistics, Probability and Related Areas, Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, IL.

• Folsom, R.E., Vaish, A.K., and Singh, A.C. (2002, August).  Range Restricted Benchmarking of Pseudo Hierarchical Bayes Small Area Estimates. The American Statistical Association Section of Survey Research Methods, New York, NY.

• Agans, R.P. (November 14-17, 2002). Mexican Immigrants and the Use of Cognitive Assessment Techniques in Questionnaire Development. Paper to be presented at the International Conference on Questionnaire Development, Evaluation, and Testing Methods (QDET), Charleston, South Carolina.

• Folsom, R.E., Singh, A.C., Vaish, A.K. (2001, April). Estimating function-based Gaussian likelihood in hierarchical Bayes modeling for small area estimation with survey data.  Presentation given at the International Conference on Small Area Estimation and Related Topics, Potomac, MD.

• Agans, R.P., Deeb-Sossa, N. (2001, May). Mexican Immigrants and the Use of Cognitive Assessment Techniques in Questionnaire Development. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Public Opinion Research(AAPOR), Montreal, Canada.

• Folsom, R.E., Singh, A.C., and Vaish, A.K. (2001, July). Estimating function-based Gaussian likelihood in hierarchical Bayes modeling for small area estimation with survey data.  Presentation given at Statistics Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

• Singh, A.C., Folsom, R.E., and Vaish, A.K. (2001, November).  A New Approach to Hierarchical Bayes Modeling for Small Area Estimation with Surveys. Presentation given at the Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology Conference, Arlington, VA.

• Deeb-Sossa, N., Barger, S.L. Agans, R.P., Wegs, C.M., Buekens, P. (2001,October). Measurement of length of gestation among mexican immigrants. Paper presented at the American Public Health Association, Atlanta, Georgia.

• Suchindran, C. M., Leiss, J. K., and Salama, I. (2001, August). Alternative Methods for Record Linkage: Application to Linking Vital Records Presentation given at the Joint Statistical Meetings, American Statistical Association, Atlanta, Georgia.

• Kalsbeek W.D., Agans R., Bowers A., Suchindran C and Folsom R.E. (2000, August) An Interdisciplinary Center Addressing Statistical Issues in Health Research Aimed at High-Risk Populations. Presentation given at the Proceedings of the American Statistical Associaion, Indianapolis, IN.

• Kalsbeek W.D. (2000, June) Sampling Racial and Ethnic Minorities. Presentation given at the 2000 Summer Public Health Conference on Minority Health, Chapel Hill, NC.

Workshops

• Agans, R.P., Deeb-Sossa, N., Butron-Riveros, B.C. (2002, June). The hispanic paradox and measurement error. The 8th Annual Summer Public Health Research Institute and Videoconference on Minority Health. The School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

• Agans, R.P., Deeb-Sossa, N. (2001, March). Questionnaire Development and Interviewing techniques for surveying culturally diverse populations. Presented at the Odum Institude for Research in Social Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

• Deeb-Sossa, N. (2006). Inequalities at Work: Health Care Workers and Clients in a Community Clinic. Unpublished dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

• Wasserman, M.R. (2004). Latina immigrants, bridge persons, and utilization of preventive health services. Unpublished dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC.

• Vaughn, B.J. (2001). An Empirical Comparison of Weighting Class Adjustment and Propensity Modeling Adjustment for Nonresponse. Unpublished master's thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC.

• Morris, C.B.(2001). A Further Evaluation Of Total And Component Unit Non Response Bias In The National Longitudinal Study Of Adolescent Health. Unpublished master's thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC.

• Barger, S.L. (2000). Assessing the Beliefs of Mexican Immigrant Women Regarding Duration of Gestation: Protocol Development, Administration, and Results of an Initial Focus Group. Unpublished master's thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC.