ABOUT US - Publications
Publications, Papers, and Presentations
Data Point Research is committed to helping the survey research community maintain robust methodological and statistical procedures.
Part of that commitment includes writing articles and making presentations for scientific journals and associations. Listed below are some of the more recent papers written by Data Point Research associates:
"Some binary maximin distance designs"
William Duckworth
Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference
(2000)
"Asymptotic properties of backfitting estimators"
Jean Opsomer
Journal of Multivariate Analysis
(2000)
"Retaining Good Interviewers: Characteristics that affect interviewer turnover and retention in a CAPI survey"
Williams
Proceedings of the American Statistical Association
Section on Survey Research Methods
(1999)
"Kriging with nonparametric variance function estimation"
Jean Opsomer (with M.P. Ruppert, Wand, U. Holst, and
O. Hossjer)
Biometrics
(1999)
"Government Steering and Program Diversity: Evaluating the Changes in U.S. and Dutch Higher Education Systems '
Christopher Morphew (with J. Huisman)
Higher Education Policy
(1998)
"Using Non-monetary Incentives: Can Their Effects Be Replicated?"
Williams
Paper presented at the annual conference of the
American Association for Public Opinion Research
St. Louis, MO
(1998)
"Book Review: Social Sciences in Actual Practice"
Christopher Morphew (with L.E. Wolf-Wendel)
Management Learning
(1998)
"Using Electronic Mail to Assess Undergraduates' Experiences"
Christopher Morphew and Andrew Williams
The Journal of Computing in Higher Education
(1998)
"Fitting a Bivariate Additive Model by Local Polynomial Regression"
Jean Opsomer (with D. Ruppert)
The Annals of Statistics
(1997)
"Trials and Tribulations in Using Electronic-mail for Conducting Surveys."
Andrew Williams, Christopher Morphew, (with S.N. Nusser)
Paper presented at the annual International Field
Directors and Field Technologies Conference
Norfolk, VA
(May 1997)
"Some Considerations for Conducting an Electronic Mail Study with University Students"
Andrew Williams, Christopher Morphew (with S.N. Nusser)
Paper presented at the annual conference of the
American Association for Public Opinion Research
Norfolk, VA
(May 1997)
"Statewide Governing Boards and Program Duplication: A Remedy?"
Christopher Morphew
Presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for
the Study of Higher Education
Orlando, Florida
(November 1995)
"An Application of Locally Weighted Regression to Airborne Mercury Deposition around an Incinerator Site"
Jean Opsomer (with J. Agras, A. Carpi and G. Rodrigues)
Environmetrics
(1995)
"The Effects of Interviewer Experience on Response Rates"
Williams
Paper presented at the annual conference of the
American Association for Public Opinion Research
Fort Lauderdale, FL
(1995)