Research Projects
Agriculture
The National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) established a Cross-Sector Research in Residence Program in partnership with the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), the survey and estimation arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This new collaborative venture by NISS and the... more
Biomarkers
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NISS has joined the Clinical Proteomic Technologies for Cancer research initiative that focuses on technologies for cancer biomarker discovery. The overall goal is to foster the building of an integrated foundation of proteomic technologies, data, reagents and reference materials, and analysis... more
Clinical Medical Research
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One of the factors the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) looks for when evaluating a drug is the potential for that drug to induce a cardiac arrhythmia. When a drug is administered to a patient, some of them can interfere with the normal electrical signals of the heart. In a normal heartbeat, the... more
Computer/Web
This compendium is an outgrowth of the Technical Expert Panel on Maps and Graphics organized in 2009 by the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) on behalf of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
The purpose of the panel was to “assist the NCES [in] reviewing and... more
Cybersecurity
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The goal of this project is to reconcile two methods for modeling change in social networks over time: a class of statistical models and intelligent agent models. The research contrasts the properties of these two approaches, exploring what qualitative dynamic behaviors in social networks are... more
Disease Surveillance
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Syndromic surveillance uses syndrome (a specific collection of clinical symptoms) data to monitor for indications of a potential or incipient disease outbreak. Other advanced surveillance systems have been implemented globally for early detection of infectious disease outbreaks and bioterrorist... more
Education
Passage of the Evidence Act in July 2019 opened opportunities to integrate administrative data across agencies. For the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the Evidence Act this opportunity to broaden the context for NCES data bases expands the potential scope for education research... more
Education Statistics
The Covid-19 pandemic and the consequent changes to lifestyles and education practices have focused the American attention intensely on education and learning, both processes and progress. The shifts from in-classroom to virtual learning and from social to asocial learning and isolated environments... more
Environmental Science
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The Environmental Protection Agency and scientists from several universities across the United States and Canada worked on network design for environmental monitoring; space-time models, data fusion, health and pharmacokinetics; risk assesment of toxicants; and data representation and reporting.
Omics
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Emerging OMICS technologies such as microarray and highthroughput screening have been adopted across a broad spectrum of applications as these technologies are capable of simultaneous measurements of very large numbers of channels. Thus they enable rapid experimental turnaround with an accompanying... more
Software Development
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The goal was to design, implement and evaluate light weight instrumentation for software testing and profiling. The underlying concept was that different instances (users' copies) of the software are instrumented to collect information differently but lightly so that performance is not impaired.... more
Survey Research
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NISS and Duke University are collaborating on the Triangle Census Research Network (TCRN), one of eight research nodes that are working on the National Census Research Network (NCRN). NISS and Duke are looking at ways to improve how federal statistical (“FedStats”) agencies disseminate data to the... more
Transportation
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The Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) implemented NISS-developed strategies for operation of traffic signals on the near North side of Chicago. A team consisting of NISS, North Carolina State University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and CDOT developed prediction models using... more