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Inaugural Ingram Olkin S3 Forum: Gun Violence — The Statistical Issues

Inaugural Ingram Olkin S3 Forum: Gun Violence — The Statistical Issues

Thursday, June 27, 2019

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Jim Rosenberger, Director NISS, opens the Forum

Allan Sampson with a few words about Ingram Olkin

Julia Olkin, Professor, Department of Mathematics, California State University, East Bay, talks about her father

Erica L Smith, (Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice) - "Department of Justice Statistical Data Collections Related to Gun Violence”.

Rick Rosenfeld, (Founders Professor, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Missouri-St. Louis) - "Gun Homicides and the Impact of the Opioid Epidemic".

Charles Loeffler, (University of Pennsylvania) - "Is Gun Violence Contagious?"

Discussion Leader: Tom Belin - Professor, Department of Biostatistics, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health

Informal conversation about the issues in between presenters

Theodore S. Lentz PhD student, Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice, University of Missouri - St. Louis

Discussion Leader: David Banks - Statistical & Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI), Director; Duke University, Profesor, Department of Statistical Science

Philip J. Cook, (ITT/Terry Sanford Professor Emeritus of Public Policy Studies, Duke University) - "Policing Gun Violence: The case for investing in investigations".

Forum presentations in full swing

Discussion continues over lunch

Informal conversation about the issues in between presenters

Janet Lauritsen, (Curators’ Distinguished Professor, Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice, University of Missouri-St. Louis) - "National and Local Trends in Serious Violence, Firearm Victimization, and Homicide".

Forum participants continue conversation at reception

Forum participants continue conversation at reception

Afternoon working groups

Afternoon working groups

Afternoon working groups

Afternoon working groups

Afternoon working groups

Informal conversation about the issues in between presenters

Discussion Leader: Kimberly Sellers - Associate Professor, Statistics, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Georgetown University

Heike Hofmann, (CSAFE/Iowa, Iowa State University) - "Using Machine Learning to Match Striae Pattern on Land Engraved Areas of Bullets".

Jens Ludwig, (Edwin A. & Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor, Director of the Chicago Crime Lab, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago) - "Blocking and Tackling".

Yifan Zhang, (Biostatistician, Health Policy, Stanford University) - "The Longitudinal Study of Handgun Ownership and Transfer (LongSHOT)".

John MacDonald, (Professor of Criminology and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania) - "Place-Based Experiments to Remediate Blighted Vacant Land and Reduce Shootings".

Terry Schell, (Senior Scientist, RAND Corporation) - "Justify your model: Identifying the best model assumptions".

Discussion Leader: Lynne Stokes - Professor, Department of Statistical Science, Southern Methodist University

Discussion Leader. Elizabeth Stuart - Associate Dean for Education, Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

David Hemenway, (Department of Health Policy and Management, Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University) - "Law Enforcement Homicides: across states and by rurality".

Greg Ridgeway, (Department of Criminology, Department of Statistics, University of Pennsylvania) - "The Role of Individual Officer Characteristics in Police Shootings".

Forum presentations in full swing

Follow-up Working Roundtables

Follow-up Working Roundtables

Jim Rosenberger, Director NISS, opens the Forum

Allan Sampson with a few words about Ingram Olkin

Julia Olkin, Professor, Department of Mathematics, California State University, East Bay, talks about her father

Erica L Smith, (Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice) - "Department of Justice Statistical Data Collections Related to Gun Violence”.

Rick Rosenfeld, (Founders Professor, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Missouri-St. Louis) - "Gun Homicides and the Impact of the Opioid Epidemic".

Charles Loeffler, (University of Pennsylvania) - "Is Gun Violence Contagious?"

Discussion Leader: Tom Belin - Professor, Department of Biostatistics, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health

Informal conversation about the issues in between presenters

Theodore S. Lentz PhD student, Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice, University of Missouri - St. Louis

Discussion Leader: David Banks - Statistical & Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI), Director; Duke University, Profesor, Department of Statistical Science

Philip J. Cook, (ITT/Terry Sanford Professor Emeritus of Public Policy Studies, Duke University) - "Policing Gun Violence: The case for investing in investigations".

Forum presentations in full swing

Discussion continues over lunch

Informal conversation about the issues in between presenters

Janet Lauritsen, (Curators’ Distinguished Professor, Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice, University of Missouri-St. Louis) - "National and Local Trends in Serious Violence, Firearm Victimization, and Homicide".

Forum participants continue conversation at reception

Forum participants continue conversation at reception

Afternoon working groups

Afternoon working groups

Afternoon working groups

Afternoon working groups

Afternoon working groups

Informal conversation about the issues in between presenters

Discussion Leader: Kimberly Sellers - Associate Professor, Statistics, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Georgetown University

Heike Hofmann, (CSAFE/Iowa, Iowa State University) - "Using Machine Learning to Match Striae Pattern on Land Engraved Areas of Bullets".

Jens Ludwig, (Edwin A. & Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor, Director of the Chicago Crime Lab, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago) - "Blocking and Tackling".

Yifan Zhang, (Biostatistician, Health Policy, Stanford University) - "The Longitudinal Study of Handgun Ownership and Transfer (LongSHOT)".

John MacDonald, (Professor of Criminology and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania) - "Place-Based Experiments to Remediate Blighted Vacant Land and Reduce Shootings".

Terry Schell, (Senior Scientist, RAND Corporation) - "Justify your model: Identifying the best model assumptions".

Discussion Leader: Lynne Stokes - Professor, Department of Statistical Science, Southern Methodist University

Discussion Leader. Elizabeth Stuart - Associate Dean for Education, Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

David Hemenway, (Department of Health Policy and Management, Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University) - "Law Enforcement Homicides: across states and by rurality".

Greg Ridgeway, (Department of Criminology, Department of Statistics, University of Pennsylvania) - "The Role of Individual Officer Characteristics in Police Shootings".

Forum presentations in full swing

Follow-up Working Roundtables

Follow-up Working Roundtables

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