Invited Speakers

  • Ana Fernández Militino (Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain)
  • Malay Ghosh (University of Florida, United States)
  • Francisco Hernández Jiménez (Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Spain)
  • Partha Lahiri (University of Maryland, United States)
  • Sharon Lohr (Arizona State University, United States)
  • Pedro Silva (University of Southampton, United Kingdom)
  • Li-Chun Zhang (Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Norway)

    • Specialized Sessions

  • SAE IN OFFICIAL STATISTICS, organized by Montserrat Herrador (Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Spain)
  • SMALL AREA ESTIMATION FOR BUSINESS SURVEYS, organized by Jean-François Beaumont (Statistics Canada, Canada)
  • POVERTY MAPPING, organized by J.N.K. Rao (Carleton University, Canada)
  • SPATIAL METHODS IN SAE, organized by Monica Pratesi (Università di Pisa, Italy)
  • TEMPORAL MODELS IN SAE, organized by Denise Silva (Office for National Statistics, United Kingdom)
  • ROBUST AND NON PARAMETRIC METHODS IN SAE, organized by Raymond Chambers (University of Wollongong, Australia)

    • Panel discussion


    FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN RESEARCH AND APPLICATION OF SMALL AREA ESTIMATION – A LOOK AT ON-GOING RESEARCH PROJECTS, with the participation of
    Raymond Chambers (chair) (University of Wollongong, Australia)
    Ralf Muennich (University of Trier, Germany)
    Monica Pratesi (Università di Pisa, Italy)
    Denise Silva (Office for National Statistics, United Kingdom)