The Survey Research Methods Section, Government Statistics Section, and Social Statistics Section consortium of sections partners each year to host a student paper competition. The winners of the student paper competition are guaranteed a spot to present their paper at the Joint Statistical Meetings and receive $1,000 to defray the costs of attending the conference. This year, the competition received 48 submissions for the 2025 annual student paper competition. Five winners and two honorable mentions were selected. The winners are the following:
- Huiding “Eric” Chen, Vanderbilt University, “RAILS: A Synthetic Sampling Weights for Volunteer-Based National Biobanks: A Case Study with the All of Us Research Program”
- Yuting Chen, University of Maryland, “Impact of Existence and Nonexistence of Pivot on the Coverage of Empirical Best Linear Prediction Intervals for Small Areas”
- Zhuochao Huang, University of Florida, “Causal Inference and Racial Bias in Policing: New Estimands and the Importance of Mobility Data”
- Zhenhua Wang, University of Missouri, “Echo State Networks for Spatio-Temporal Area-Level Data”
- Seth Adarkwah Yiadom, Ohio State University, “Formulating the Proxy Pattern-Mixture Model as a Selection Model to Assist with Sensitivity Analysis”
The honorable mentions are the following:
- Snigdha Das, Texas A&M University, “Scalably Efficient Inference in Complex Surveys Through Targeted Resampling of Weights”
- Daniel Vedensky, University of Missouri, “Bayesian Unit-Level Models for Longitudinal Survey Data Under Informative Sampling: An Analysis of Expected Job Loss Using the Household Pulse Survey”
The winners will present their papers at JSM 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee, in August and be recognized at the sections’ business meetings.
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