Dear survey statisticians!
The July 2023 issue of the International Association of Survey
Statisticians (IASS) newsletter *The Survey Statistician* is now available
at http://isi-iass.org/home/services/the-survey-statistician/
You are invited to read it!
This issue starts with the *Letter from the President* by Monica Pratesi,
where she pays attention to the citizen science and the citizen generated
data. This is her last letter, and she sees the future of IASS full of
opportunities as outlined by the excellent next President and the new
Executive Committee. It is followed by the *Report from the Scientific
Secretary*, Giovanna Ranalli where she in her last report enumerates the
main scientific activities of IASS during the second half of the year: IASS
sponsored conference in June organized by the Survey Sampling Group of the
Italian Statistical Society, webinar series, selection of the
Cochran-Hansen prize winners and an overview of the IASS participation in
the ISI World Statistics Congress in Ottawa. Giovanna stresses the fruitful
experience acquired by her participating in the international statistical
activities and conferences.
The newsletter includes the special section *The 50th anniversary of IASS*,
devoted to the occasion celebrated this year. In all, 24 survey
statisticians from all over the world share their congratulations and short
articles about historical events in survey statistics and its development
specificity in their countries. The input to this section are from Jairo
Arrow, Jean-François Beaumont, Luigi Biggeri, Ieva Burakauskaitė, Nanjamma
Chinnappa, Ivan P. Fellegi, Maiki Ilves, Graham Kalton, Jae Kwang Kim,
Isabel Molina, Danny Pfeffermann, Sander Scholtus, Denise Silva, Pedro
Silva, Kristiina Rajaleid, Eric Rancourt, J.N.K. Rao, Siu-Ming Tam, Daniel
Thorburn, Mahmoud Torabi, Imbi Traat, Dennis Trewin, Ton de Waal, and Peter
Wingfield-Digby.
The current issue contains the following articles:
· The *Ask the Experts* section:
Doubly and multiply robust procedures for missing survey data, by Sixia
Chen and David Haziza.
· *New and Emerging Methods* section:
Calibration techniques for model-based prediction and doubly robust
estimation, by Changbao Wu.
· *Book & Software Review* section
Book review: Sharon L. Lohr *Sampling: Design and Analysis*, *Third Edition*,
by Camelia Goga.
The *survey* package for R, 15 years on, by Thomas Lumley.
· *The Country Reports* from Argentina, Australia, Canada, Croatia,
Denmark, Fiji, France, Kenya, the Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Switzerland,
Uruguay, United States are included into the current issue.
We thank all of the section editors, technical editor and contributors to
the newsletter.
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