Partha Lahiri 

Professor, Joint Program in Survey Methodology and Interim Director, Statistics Consortium

1218 LeFrak Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742 

PHONE: 301 314-5903
FAX:  301 314-7912
EMAIL: plahiri@survey.umd.edu 

Former Positions:

·        Milton Mohr Distinguished Professor of Statistics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
·        Visiting Scholar, Department of Statistics, Harvard University
·        ASA/NSF/BLS and Census Bureau Senior Research Fellow

 

Research Interests:

·        Survey Sampling

·        Multi-level Modeling

·        Small-Area Estimation

·        Bayes and Empirical Bayes Inference

·        Resampling Methods
 

 

Professional Experiences:

·        Senior Research Scientist, The Gallup International Research and Educational Center

·        Member, ASA Census Advisory Committee

·        Program Chair-Elect, Survey Research Methods Section, American Statistical Association
 
 

Selected Publications:

·        Jiang, J., Lahiri, P. and Wan, S. (2002), Jackknifing the mean squared error of empirical best predictor, Annals of Statistics, 30, 1782-1810

·        Edited IMS Lecture Notes/Monograph on Model Selection, Volume 38, 2001

·        Datta, G.S., Lahiri, P., Maiti, T. and Lu, K.L. (1999), Hierarchical Bayes estimation of unemployment rates for the U.S. states, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 94, 1074-1082

·        Chattopadhyay, M., Lahiri, P., Larsen, M. and Reimnitz, J. (1999), Composite estimation of drug prevalences for sub-state areas, Survey Methodology, 25, 81-86

·        Lahiri, P. and Rao, J.N.K. (1995), Robust estimation of mean square error of small area estimators, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 90, 758-766