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SSA ACT Branch - Foreman Lecture

SSA ACT Branch holds an annual Foreman lecture named after Ken Foreman AO and his contributions to official statistics in Australia and in Papua New Guinea (having planned PNG's first survey of indigenous agriculture and its first census of the indigeneous population). Among many of his achievements, Ken was a Director of the then Methodology and Sampling Division at the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), and the First Assistant Statistician from 1973 to his retirement in 1984.

The Foreman lecture is currently run in an alternating format, where in even years it is held at SSA ACT branch in July, while in even years it is held as part of the Australian Statistical Conference (ASC).

Further information about Ken's life and research can be found in his obituary, and an article by Ken Brewer published in the Australian and New Zeland Journal of Statistics 


Previous Foreman Lecture speakers         

Year

Speaker

Title of lecture

Speaker Affiliation

Discussants

1996

Bill McLennan

A History of the Development of Statistical Methodology in the ABS

ABS


199

James Durbin

The State Space Approach to Time Series Analysis and its Potential for Official Statistics

London School of Economics and Political Science

Des Nicholls (ANU), Geoff Lee (ABS)


1998


David Morganstein

Continuous Quality Improvements in Statistical Survey Work

Westat Inc., USA

1999

David Steele

Analysis Combining Survey and Census Data or Using Aggregate Data in Survey Analysis

University of Wollongong

2000

John Rao

Regression composite estimation/small area estimation

Carleton University

2001

Dennis Trewin

The Australian Population Census

ABS

Ron Sandland (CSIRO), Roger Jones (ANU)

2002

John Eltinge

Properties of Stratum Mixing Methods Applied to Public-Use Survey Datasets: Identification Risk and Variance Estimator Stability

Bureau of Labor Statistics, USA

2003

Ken Brewer

Anomalies, explorations, insights

BAE

Robert Clark

2004

Pedro Silva

Nonresponse, rotation group bias and redesign of a Brazilian Labour Force Survey

IBGE Brazil/University of Southampton


2005

Dennis Trewin

100 years of official statistics – A review of the development of statistical methods over that time

ABS

David Steel (UOW), Trevor Breusch (ANU)


2006

Ray Chambers

Models and Auxiliary Information in Survey Sampling 

Southampton University/University of Wollongong


2007

Susan Linacre

How things change - or do they? Australia and the working life of an official statistician over 30 years.

ABS



2008

Fiona Steele

Multilevel Models for Longitudinal Data

University of Bristol

 

2009

Frank Yu

Measuring Australia's Labour Force Efficiently

ABS

2010

Alan Zaslavsky

Using hierarchical models to attribute sources of variation in consumer assessments of health care

Harvard Medical School

2011 

Robert Clark 

The Art and Science of Sample Design

University of Wollongong

Alistair Rogers (ABS), Ian McDermid (ANU)

2012

Roderick Little

Calibrated Bayes, an alternative inferential paradigm for official statistics”

US Census Bureau


2013

Eric Schulte Nordholt

Correcting for missing data in the Dutch register-based census of 2011

Statistics Netherlands

2014

James Brown

Measurement Of and Adjustment For Census Coverage: A UK Perspective

University of Technology Sydney


2015

Siu-Ming Tam

A statistical framework for analyzing big data

ABS

Alan Welsh (ANU), Ray Lindsay (ATO)

2016

Jae-Kwang Kim

Some recent topics on informative sampling

Iowa State University

2017

James Chipperfield

A review of the methodological developments made by the ABS in data integration

ABS


2018

Natalie Shlomo

Statistical Disclosure Control: Where Do We Go From Here?

University of Manchester


2019

Daniel Elazar

Methodological challenges in balancing data confidentiality and utility in an increasingly contested data environment

ABS

2020

Anders Holmberg

What is the difference and does it matter? Reflections on how the methodology work in official statistics relates among countries and on the Australian opportunities therein

ABS

2021

Li Chun Zhang

Graph sampling theory: A current overview

University of Southampton

2022

Teresa Dickinson, Dennis Trewin, Louise Wangerek, Annette Kelly

Are we really losing our religion but becoming more multicultural? How the ABS ensures that data from the Census is of high-quality

ABS

2023

Xiao-Li Meng

Multi-resolution Meandering:  Personalized Treatments, Individual Privacy, Machine Unlearning, and a World without Randomness

Harvard University


2024


 

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