We have a conference on multilevel regression and poststratification (MRP) this Friday and Saturday, organized by Lauren Kennedy, Yajuan Si, and me. The conference was originally scheduled to be at Columbia but now it is online. Here is the information.
If you want to join the conference, you must register for it ahead of time; just click on the link.
Here are the scheduled talks for tomorrow (Fri):
Elizabeth Tipton RCT Designs for Causal Generalization
Benjamin Skinner Why did you go? Using multilevel regression with poststratification to understand why community colleges students exit early
Jon Zelner From person-to-person transmission events to population-level risks: MRP as a tool for maximizing the public health benefit of infectious disease data
Katherine Li Multilevel Regression and Poststratification with Unknown Population Distributions of Poststratifiers
Qixuan Chen Use of administrative records to improve survey inference: a response propensity prediction approach
Lauren Kennedy and Andrew Gelman 10 things to love and hate about MRP
And here’s the schedule for Saturday:
Shiro Kuriwaki and Soichiro Yamauchi
Roberto Cerina Election projections using available data, machine learning, and poststratification
Douglas Rivers Modeling elections with multiple candidates
Yajuan Si Statistical Data Integration and Inference with Multilevel Regression and Poststratification
Yutao Liu Model-based prediction using auxiliary information
Samantha Sekar
Chris Hanretty Hierarchical related regression for individual and aggregate electoral data
Lucas Leemann Improved Multilevel Regression with Post-Stratification Through Machine Learning (autoMrP)
Leontine Alkema Got data? Quantifying the contribution of population-period-specific information to model-based estimates in demography and global health
Jonathan Gellar Are SMS (text message) surveys a viable form of data collection in Africa and Asia?
Charles Margossian Laplace approximation for speeding computation of multilevel models
I’ll be closing the registration at Thursday 7pm EDT so we can get the meeting details to everyone before the conference starts tomorrow. There’s also been a few last minute changes to the schedule. :)
Lauren:
Thanks for (a) coming up with the idea for the conference, (b) organizing it, and (c) waking up in the middle of the night to get it going!
I think that second set of talks is on Saturday, yes? Post says Friday.
Fixed; thanks.
Thank you for the conference! I’m in China now, so, I can at best attend the morning panels. But every presentation looks interesting! Given it’ll be on Zoom. Is there a possibility to record some of the afternoon speeches if not the entire conference? Thank you,
I thought it would be best not too so people feel comfortable using video etc. Totally hear you on the time zone though! I’m organizing from Australia so it’s going to be a night shift for me!
Hi, I missed the deadline to register, is there any chance of late registration?
Hi Sergio,
Please email me (my email is on the conference website).
Any chance I could still register? I would love to listen in San Fransisco. I will email as well.
Hi Diana,
Could you email me (my email is on the website). Thanks
Hi Diana,
Could you email me (my email is on the website) – you might have emailed Andrew but I am the one giving out details! :) Thanks
Great… this is announced on the blog when registration (Europe time zone) is closed. The argument that you need to send information to the participants in time sounds like to snail-mail type regression.
Looks like you will need some more years to find out how this works.
Hi Dieter,
Could you please send me an email? My email is on the conference website. :)
Apologies for not giving you more notice.
A thing that is true during a pandemic that caused a massive reorganization of a conference that is also true not during a pandemic: no one owes you their time or their free labour so don’t be rude about it.
+a million
Thank you, Dan, for speaking up about this! Lots of people are doing their best to be flexible, patient, and accommodating given the uncertainty in everyday life–hopefully we can all keep more of that patience and kindness going forward.
Thanks to the organizers for doing all this, looks like a very interesting set of talks!
Dieter:
We announced the conference on the blog in February. Yesterday’s post was just a reminder for people who might have forgotten.