by Jeffrey Henning | May 24, 2013 | Blog
At AAPOR 2013, I had lunch with ASA Executive Director Ronald L. Wasserstein, a former statistics professor at Washburn University in Topeka, who after the conference told me about the International Year of Statistics. The American Statistical Association (ASA) and...
by Jeffrey Henning | May 22, 2013 | In the News
In the US, the Marketing Research Association (MRA) has appointed Nestle Purina PetCare insights exec Jill Donahue as its 2013-2014 Chairman.Read more at Mr. Web.
by Jeffrey Henning | May 20, 2013 | In the News
Where most research conferences giddily chase hype, the annual conference of AAPOR doggedly pursues truth. The American Association for Public Opinion Research is focused on methodological rigour, research on research and relentless improvement. This year’s conference...
by Jeffrey Henning | May 19, 2013 | Blog
Yesterday AAPOR released The AAPOR Task Force on Non-Probability Sampling, which was summarized in a session in Boston today at the annual conference. The committee was co-chaired by Reg Baker and J. Michael Brick, who both presented. In 2010, the AAPOR report on...
by Jeffrey Henning | May 19, 2013 | Blog
The TICC (Transparency Initiative Coordinating Committee) is addressing the issue that there is not enough transparency in the social, behavioral and marketing sciences. Openness is fundamental to scientific inquiry, so the transparency initiative’s goal is to...
