Selected Recent Publications
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2023). Toward a 21st Century National Data Infrastructure: Enhancing Survey Programs by Using Multiple Data Sources, ed. Lohr, S., Weinberg, D., and Marton, K. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.
Lohr, S. (2023). Assuming a nonresponse model does not make it true. Harvard Data Science Review, 5(3), 1-10.
Lohr, S. (2021). Multiple-frame surveys for a multiple-data-source world. Survey Methodology, 47, 229-263.
Lohr, S. (2019). Gertrude M. Cox and statistical design. Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 66, 317-323.
Brick, J.M. and Lohr, S. (2019). Experimental evaluation of mail questionnaires in a probability sample on victimization. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 182, 669-687.
Lohr, S. and Brick, J.M. (2017). Roosevelt predicted to win: Revisiting the Literary Digest Poll of 1936. Statistics, Politics, and Policy, 8, 65-84.
Lohr, S. and Raghunathan, T.E. (2017). Combining survey data with other data sources. Statistical Science, 32, 293-312.
Selected Talks
Ahead of the trends: J.N.K. Rao’s Contributions to Survey Research
Statistics Canada International Methodology Symposium: The Future of Official Statistics, November 1, 2024
Slides (including references)
Sweatshops, smallpox, and statistics: Florence Kelley in 1890s Chicago
Winter lecture at the Georgia Chapter of the American Statistical Association, December 14, 2021
Slides and References
Multiple-frame surveys for a multiple-data-source world
2021 Waksberg Lecture, presented at Statistics Canada's 2021 International Methodology Symposium “Adopting Data Science in Official Statistics to Meet Society's Emerging Needs”
View slides. Download list of references
Combining data and crime
Plenary address at the Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology (FCSM) Research and Policy Conference
Washington, DC, March 7, 2018.
View slides. Download proceedings paper.The essential survey statistician
Joint Program in Survey Methodology Distinguished Lecture
College Park, MD, March 11, 2016
Watch videoRed beads and profound knowledge: Deming and quality of education
Deming Lecture, Joint Statistical Meetings, Boston, August 5, 2014
Watch videoRegression trees with survey data
Joint Statistical Meetings, Washington DC, August 6, 2009 (joint with G. Mendez; proposes random forest for small area estimation). View slides