Nadarajasundaram Ganesh
Ganesh has more than 15 years of experience working on survey methodology and statistical analysis. He has a breadth of experience in sampling, survey weighting, statistical modeling with expertise in small area estimation, and statistical methods for combining probability and nonprobability samples.
Ganesh is the data delivery manager for the NIS-Flu, where he manages a team of statisticians, researchers, and programmers that provide CDC weekly and monthly data deliveries associated with tracking influenza vaccination coverage. He is also a lead statistician for the development of the estimation methodology associated with AP VoteCast, a survey of the American electorate. Previously, Ganesh was the lead statistician for NORC’s AmeriSpeak® Panel; he led a team of statisticians and programmers in developing all statistical aspects associated with the AmeriSpeak Panel. He has led and contributed to several important small area applications. Ganesh led a team of statisticians that developed small area models to estimate county-level vaccination coverage using the National Immunization Survey.
Ganesh has published articles in Biometrika, Journal of Official Statistics, Journal of Multivariate Analysis, and Statistics in Medicine. He has presented papers to the American Association for Public Opinion Research and the American Statistical Association on topics such as survey weighting, composite estimation, and small area estimation.
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Education
PhD
University of Maryland
BS
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Honors & Awards
President’s Award | 2018
NORC at the University of Chicago
Project Contributions
Publications
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opens in new tab"Estimating County-Level Vaccination Coverage Using Small Area Estimation with the National Immunization Survey-Child."
Journal Article | January 25, 2024
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2024 Primaries VoteCast Methodology Statement
Project Report | January 10, 2024
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"Estimating County-Level Vaccination Coverage Using Small Area Estimation with the National Immunization Survey-Child"
Journal Article | December 10, 2020
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opens in new tab"Estimating County-Level Vaccination Coverage Using Small Area Estimation with the National Immunization Survey-Child."
Journal Article | December 10, 2020
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opens in new tab"Using Statistical Matching to Account for Coverage Bias When Combining Probability and Nonprobability Samples."
Journal Article | August 26, 2020
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opens in new tab"Test of a Hybrid Method of Sampling the LGBT Population: Web Respondent Driven Sampling with Seeds from a Probability Sample."
Journal Article | December 19, 2019
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opens in new tab"Estimation Tools for Reducing the Impact of Sampling and Nonresponse Errors in Dual-Frame RDD Telephone Surveys."
Journal Article | August 29, 2019
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"Total Survey Error: Approaches for Measuring Bias and Variance Components When Combining Probability and Non-Probability Samples."
Journal Article | August 26, 2019