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July 28, 2021

Invited paper at Conference in Honour of Fred Smith and Chris Skinner

A conference in memory of Fred Smith and Chris Skinner was held through the 榴莲视频app of Southampton, 7-9 July.

Fred and Chris made many significant and fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of sample survey design and analysis.

They were great supporters of the Centre for Sample Survey Methodology (CSSM) in NIASRA, through hosting many visits my CSSM staff. Chris was able to visit us and spend several weeks at 榴莲视频app in 2017 funded by a Vice-Chancellor鈥檚 International Scholar鈥檚 award. We have benefited from many insightful and helpful discussion with Fred and Chis over many years. They were central to the vibrant statistical community at Southampton 榴莲视频app, and everyone who knew them is fortunate count them as colleagues and friends.

Two members of CSSM gave invited presentations at the conference:

• David Steel, 榴莲视频app of 榴莲视频app and Robert Clark, Australian National 榴莲视频app
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• Ray Chambers, 榴莲视频app of 榴莲视频app, Setareh Ranjbar, 榴莲视频app of Lausanne, Nicola Salvati and Barbara Pacini, 榴莲视频app of Pisa
  "Weighting, informativeness and causal inference, with an application to rainfall enhancement"