Recognitions and Awards

• Statistical Partnerships among Academe, Industry and Government (SPAIG) Award
  American Statistical Association

  Awarded to the six organizations including University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, National Cancer Institute, National Center for Health Statistics, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, and Information Management Services for this joint project. The SPAIG award recognizes outstanding partnerships established between academe and business, industry and government organizations.

  The SPAIG award cites an outstanding partnership, which has resulted in publication of improved small area estimates for cancer risk factors and cancer screening behavior, improved mathematical analysis techniques of survey data for survey organizations, development of advanced techniques for combining results from multiple surveys that can be adapted to other surveys, and obtaining publications and grant opportunities in relatively new research areas for junior researchers.

  

• Award for best poster presentation at the 2008 Joint Statistical Meetings
  Section on Survey Research Methods, American Statistical Association
  For "County-Level Small Area Estimation Using the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)" by Van L. Parsons and Nathaniel Schenker, 2008.
• Article receiving Statistical Science Award
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
  "Combining Information From Two Surveys to Estimate County-Level Prevalence Rates of Cancer Risk Factors & Screening" [PDF - 548 KB] by Raghunathan, Xie, Schenker, Parsons, Davis, Dodd, and Feuer (2007, Journal of the American Statistical Association).*

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