CSI participated in Applied Statistics 2022 and hosted prof. Donald B. Rubin

Prof. Vasja Vehovar, PhD and Gregor Čehovin, PhD of Centre for Social Informatics (CSI) participated in the 18th International Conference on Applied Statistics, held at the Faculty of Social Sciences on September 19–21, 2022. At the conference, they presented the paper “Online survey panels in modern social science research: Can nonprobability sampling replace probability sampling?” The presentation included a summary of global meta-studies on nonprobability online panels and two case studies from Slovenia.

CSI also hosted Donald B. Rubin, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Statistics at Harvard University, who was a guest speaker at the conference. Prof. Rubin’s presentation was entitled “Applications of multiple imputation, from calibrating changing occupation/industry coding systems in the U.S. Census, to evaluating the impact of nonresponse in the Slovenian Plebiscite, to understanding placebo effects in pharmaceutical experiments” and was part of a section chaired by prof. Vehovar.

Prof. Rubin is one of the leading statisticians of our time and with more than 360 thousands of citations (Google Scholar) also one of the globaly most cited scholars. His work is a major contribution to causal inference, missing data, multiple imputation, EM algorithm, statistical models, and Bayesian methods.

Conference program >> and Book of Abstracts >>.