[1] In this role, part of her responsibility is helping find methods for determining and modeling economic data where it may not have been provided by businesses completing the census.
[2] Her method for assessing this "nonresponse" data was published in The Annals of Applied Statistics.
[AT] More recently, she has been exploring hot deck imputation as a method for predicting the missing data.
[ABT] Thompson began her undergraduate studies as an English major, but switched to mathematics after finding her courses in that subject more interesting.
She joined the Census Bureau directly from college, and later earned a graduate degree in applied statistics through part-time study.