Steve G. Heeringa
Research Scientist, ISR; Director of the Survey Research Center Summer Institute, and the Statistical Design Group, ISR
Heeringa received a PhD in biostatistics from the University of Michigan. He has over 25 years of statistical sampling experience directing the development of the SRC National Sample design, as well as sample designs for SRC's major longitudinal and cross-sectional survey programs. During this time, he has been actively involved in research on sample design methods and procedures such as weighting, variance estimation, and the imputation of missing data. He has been a teacher of survey sampling methods to U.S. and international students and has served as a sample design consultant to a wide range of international research programs based in countries such as Russia, the Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, India, Nepal, China, Egypt, Iran, and Chile.
Selected Publications:
Heeringa, S.G., Alcser, K.H., et al. (2001), Potential selection bias in a community-based study of PSA levels in African-American men, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Vol. 54, No. 2, pp. 142-148.
Laing, T.J., Schottenfeld, D., Lacey, Jr., J.V., Gillespie, B.W., Garabrant, D.H., Cooper, B.C., Heeringa, S.G., Alcser, K.H., and Mayes, M.D. (2001), Potential risk factors for undifferentiated connected tissue disease among women: Implanted medical devices, American Journal of Epidemiology, Vol. 154, No. 7, 610-617.
Heeringa, S.G., Little, R.J.A., and Raghunathan, T.E. (2002), Multivariate imputation of coarsened survey data on household wealth, in Survey Nonresponse. Robert M. Groves, Don A. Dillman, John L. Eltinge, and Roderick, Little (Eds.). New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Kalton, G., and Heeringa, S.G. (2003). Leslie Kish: Selected Papers, John Wiley and Sons, New York.