Tilastopäivät 2017
Statistical Days (Tilastopäivät) 2017 was held 18.5.-19.5.2017 at the University of Turku. It was organized jointly by the Turku University Center of Statistics, the Finnish Statistical Society and The Finnish Society of Biostatistics. The keynote speaker was professor Niels Keiding from University of Copenhagen.
Slides are available through links in presentation titles
Thursday 18.5. (University main building: Lecture Hall I)
| 12:00 – 12:10 | Opening words |
| 12:10 – 13:00 | Juha Karvanen (University of Jyväskylä) and Kari Auranen (University of Turku) |
| – Introduction to missing data – concepts and perspectives | |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Niels Keiding (University of Copenhagen) |
| – Web-based Enrollment and other types of Selection in Surveys and Studies: Consequences for Generalizability | |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | ———— Coffee and tea ———— |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | Short presentations I |
| – Henni Pulkkinen (Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)): Missing information from the Bayesian perspectice – examples from fisheries stock assessment | |
| – Mikko Sillanpää (University of Oulu): Mapping genes from a single tail sample of the phenotype distribution by generating pseudo observations | |
| – Jarno Vanhatalo (University of Helsinki): Spatio-temporal Gaussian process to detect outbreaks of pests: a case study from the Great Barrier Reef | |
| 15:30 – 16:30 | Awards and winners’ presentations |
| 16:30 – 16:45 | ———— Coffee and tea ———— |
| 16:45 – 17:45 | Short presentations II |
| – Juha Alho (University of Helsinki): Statistical Aspects of Suomi24 Discussion Forum | |
| – Reijo Sund (University of Eastern Finland): Are we missing something with complete register data? | |
| – Mervi Eerola (University of Turku): Attrition in longitudinal studies | |
| 17:45 – 18:30 | Statnet discussion |
| 19:00 – 23:00 | Dinner: Kupittaan Paviljonki |
Friday 19.5. (University main building: Lecture Hall II)
| 9:00 – 10:00 | Niels Keiding (University of Copenhagen) |
| – Web-based Enrollment and other types of Selection in Surveys and Studies: Consequences for Generalizability | |
| 10.00 – 10.15 | ———— Coffee and tea ———— |
| 10.15 – 11:45 | Missing data in health examination surveys (Chair: Jaakko Reinikainen) |
| – Hanna Tolonen (Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)): Selective non-participation in health surveys and available auxiliary information for non-participation adjustment | |
| – Juho Kopra (University of Jyväskylä): Methods for estimating smoking prevalence under selective non-participation | |
| – Tommi Härkänen (Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)): Systematic handling of missing data in complex study designs | |
| 11:45 – 12:45 | ———— Lunch ———— |
| 12:45 – 13:45 | How should we evaluate missing information? Comments and critics by the VV club (“Last of the summer wine”) |
| – Chair: Elja Arjas | |
| 14:15 – | Statnet discussion |
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Michael Greenacre’s ”Turkutime: The Missing Data Song”
It’s Turkutime,
And Statistics is easy,
Some data are missing,
But randomness is high!
Your data are rich,
Your imputations good-looking,
So hush! Statisticians,
Don’t you cry.