Foundational Texts¶
Barocas, S., Hardt, M., & Narayanan, A. (2023). Fairness and Machine Learning: Limitations and Opportunities. MIT Press. Available at fairmlbook.org.
Chouldechova, A. (2017). Fair prediction with disparate impact: A study of bias in recidivism prediction instruments. Big Data, 5(2), 153-163.
Dwork, C., & Roth, A. (2014). The algorithmic foundations of differential privacy. Foundations and Trends in Theoretical Computer Science, 9(3-4), 211-407.
Kleinberg, J., Mullainathan, S., & Raghavan, M. (2016). Inherent trade-offs in the fair determination of risk scores. arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.05807.
Federal Standards and Frameworks¶
Executive Office of the President. (2025). Executive Order 14179: Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence. https://
www .whitehouse .gov /presidential -actions /2025 /01 /removing -barriers -to -american -leadership -in -artificial -intelligence/ Executive Office of the President. (2025). Executive Order 14275: Restoring Common Sense to Federal Procurement. https://
www .whitehouse .gov /presidential -actions /2025 /04 /restoring -common -sense -to -federal -procurement/ Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology. Statistical Policy Working Papers. Available at fcsm.gov.
Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology. (2025). FCSM 25-03: AI-Ready Federal Statistical Data: An Extension of Communicating Data Quality. https://
statspolicy .gov /assets /fcsm /files /docs /FCSM .25 .03 _AI -Ready -Extension -Data -Quality .pdf NIST. (2023). Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0). NIST AI 100-1. https://
csrc .nist .gov /pubs /ai /100 /1 /final NIST. (2024). Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework: Generative Artificial Intelligence Profile. NIST AI 600-1. https://
csrc .nist .gov /pubs /ai /600 /1 /final Office of Management and Budget. (2024). Memorandum M-24-10: Advancing Governance, Innovation, and Risk Management for Agency Use of Artificial Intelligence. (Rescinded April 2025; replaced by M-25-21.) https://
www .whitehouse .gov /wp -content /uploads /2024 /03 /M -24 -10 -Advancing -Governance -Innovation -and -Risk -Management -for -Agency -Use -of -Artificial -Intelligence .pdf Office of Management and Budget. (2025). Memorandum M-25-21: Accelerating Federal Use of AI through Innovation, Governance, and Public Trust. https://
www .whitehouse .gov /omb /information -resources /guidance /memoranda/ Office of Management and Budget. (2025). Memorandum M-25-22: Driving Efficient Acquisition of Artificial Intelligence in Government. https://
www .whitehouse .gov /omb /information -resources /guidance /memoranda/ Office of Management and Budget. Statistical Policy Directive No. 15: Race and Ethnic Standards for Federal Statistics and Administrative Reporting.
Survey Methodology¶
Andridge, R. R., & Little, R. J. A. (2010). A review of hot deck imputation for survey non-response. International Statistical Review, 78(1), 40–64.
Groves, R. M., & Couper, M. P. (1998). Nonresponse in Household Interview Surveys. Wiley.
Kish, L. (1965). Survey Sampling. Wiley.
Little, R. J. A., & Rubin, D. B. (2019). Statistical Analysis with Missing Data (3rd ed.). Wiley.
Rubin, D. B. (1976). Inference and missing data. Biometrika, 63(3), 581–592.
Record Linkage and Data Integration¶
Newcombe, H. B., Kennedy, J. M., Axford, S. J., & James, A. P. (1959). Automatic linkage of vital records. Science, 130, 954–959.
Fellegi, I. P., & Sunter, A. B. (1969). A theory for record linkage. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 64(328), 1183–1210.
Christen, P. (2012). Data Matching: Concepts and Techniques for Record Linkage, Entity Resolution, and Duplicate Detection. Springer.
Steorts, R. C., Ventura, S. L., Sadinle, M., & Fienberg, S. E. (2014). A comparison of blocking methods for record linkage. In Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshop (ICDMW) (pp. 1–8). IEEE.
Dimension Reduction and Unsupervised Learning¶
Hotelling, H. (1933). Analysis of a complex of statistical variables into principal components. Journal of Educational Psychology, 24, 417–441.
van der Maaten, L., & Hinton, G. (2008). Visualizing data using t-SNE. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 9, 2579–2605.
McInnes, L., Healy, J., & Melville, J. (2018). UMAP: Uniform manifold approximation and projection for dimension reduction. arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.03426.
AI Agents and Agentic Systems¶
Microsoft AI Red Team. (2025). “Lessons from Red Teaming 100 Generative AI Products.” arXiv:2501.07238. https://
arxiv .org /abs /2501 .07238 OpenAI. (2025). “A Practical Guide to Building Agents.” https://
cdn .openai .com /business -guides -and -resources /a -practical -guide -to -building -agents .pdf Anthropic. (2024). “Building Effective AI Agents.” https://
resources .anthropic .com /building -effective -ai -agents Google. (2024). “Agents” (whitepaper). https://
cloud .google .com /transform /agents -paper (URL as of 2024; location may shift)
Census and Survey Methodology¶
Abowd, J. M. (2018). The U.S. Census Bureau adopts differential privacy. Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.
CDC/NIOSH. (2022). 100 million and counting! NIOSH Science Blog. https://
www .cdc .gov /niosh /bulletin /2022 /100 -million -and -counting .html Abowd, J. M., Benedetto, G., & Stinson, M. (2006). The Creation and Use of the SIPP Synthetic Beta (Technical report). U.S. Census Bureau.
Garfinkel, S. L. (2015). De-identification of personal information. NIST Internal Report 8053.
Raghunathan, T. E., Reiter, J. P., & Rubin, D. B. (2003). Multiple imputation for statistical disclosure limitation. Journal of Official Statistics, 19(1), 1–16.
U.S. Census Bureau. (2021). Key parameters set to protect privacy in 2020 Census results (press release, June 8, 2021). https://
www .census .gov /newsroom /press -releases /2021 /2020 -census -key -parameters .html U.S. Census Bureau. (2022). 2020 Census Post-Enumeration Survey Results. Coverage Measurement Program.
AI and Critical Thinking¶
Hendrick, C. (2025). Ultra-processed minds: The end of deep reading and what it costs us. The Learning Dispatch.
Model Documentation¶
Mitchell, M., et al. (2019). Model cards for model reporting. Proceedings of the Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency.
Gebru, T., et al. (2021). Datasheets for datasets. Communications of the ACM, 64(12), 86-92.
Research Design and Validity¶
Shadish, W. R., Cook, T. D., & Campbell, D. T. (2002). Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Generalized Causal Inference (1st ed.). Houghton Mifflin.
Statistical Methods¶
Cohen, J. (1960). A coefficient of agreement for nominal scales. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 20, 37–46.
Landis, J. R., & Koch, G. G. (1977). The measurement of observer agreement for categorical data. Biometrics, 33(1), 159–174.
Machine Learning Methods¶
Breiman, L. (2001). Random forests. Machine Learning, 45(1), 5-32.
Friedman, J. H. (2001). Greedy function approximation: A gradient boosting machine. Annals of Statistics, 29(5), 1189–1232.
Grinsztajn, L., Oyallon, E., & Varoquaux, G. (2022). Why do tree-based models still outperform deep learning on typical tabular data? Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 35.
Breiman, L., Friedman, J. H., Olshen, R. A., & Stone, C. J. (1984). Classification and Regression Trees. Wadsworth.
Hastie, T., Tibshirani, R., & Friedman, J. (2009). The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction (2nd ed.). Springer. Available at https://
hastie .su .domains /ElemStatLearn/ Hoerl, A. E., & Kennard, R. W. (1970). Ridge regression: Biased estimation for nonorthogonal problems. Technometrics, 12(1), 55–67.
Pedregosa, F., et al. (2011). Scikit-learn: Machine learning in Python. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 12, 2825-2830.
Quinlan, J. R. (1986). Induction of decision trees. Machine Learning, 1(1), 81–106.
Rubin, D. B. (1987). Multiple Imputation for Nonresponse in Surveys. Wiley.
Stekhoven, D. J., & Bühlmann, P. (2012). MissForest: Non-parametric missing value imputation for mixed-type data. Bioinformatics, 28(1), 112–118.
Tibshirani, R. (1996). Regression shrinkage and selection via the lasso. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B, 58(1), 267–288.
Neural Networks and Deep Learning¶
Ba, J. L., Kiros, J. R., & Hinton, G. E. (2016). Layer normalization. arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.06450.
He, K., Zhang, X., Ren, S., & Sun, J. (2016). Deep residual learning for image recognition. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2016) (pp. 770–778).
Kingma, D. P., & Ba, J. (2015). Adam: A method for stochastic optimization. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). arXiv:1412.6980.
Rosenblatt, F. (1958). The perceptron: A probabilistic model for information storage and organization in the brain. Psychological Review, 65(6), 386–408.
Rumelhart, D. E., Hinton, G. E., & Williams, R. J. (1986). Learning representations by back-propagating errors. Nature, 323(6088), 533–536.
Explainability and Interpretability¶
Lundberg, S. M., & Lee, S.-I. (2017). A unified approach to interpreting model predictions. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 30.
Shapley, L. S. (1953). A value for n-person games. In H. W. Kuhn & A. W. Tucker (Eds.), Contributions to the Theory of Games II (pp. 307–317). Princeton University Press.
Natural Language Processing and Transformers¶
Vaswani, A., et al. (2017). Attention is all you need. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 30.
Devlin, J., et al. (2019). BERT: Pre-training of deep bidirectional transformers for language understanding. Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2019.
Sennrich, R., Haddow, B., & Birch, A. (2016). Neural machine translation of rare words with subword units. In Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) (pp. 1715–1725). Association for Computational Linguistics.
Survey Text Coding and NLP¶
NIOSH. (2024). NIOSH Industry and Occupation Computerized Coding System (NIOCCS). U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, CDC/NIOSH. https://
csams .cdc .gov /nioccs /About .aspx Friesen, M.C., et al. (2022). Beware the Grizzlyman: A comparison of job- and industry-based noise exposure estimates using manual coding and the NIOSH NIOCCS machine learning algorithm. Annals of Work Exposures and Health, 66(7), 903-914. https://
pubmed .ncbi .nlm .nih .gov /35537195/ Coutinho, I., & Martins, B. (2024). ICD coding of death certificates with generative language models. PLOS Digital Health, 3(2), e0001245.
Pedersen, B.R., Bøgh Andersen, E., Rua, A.G., Jensen, K., & Gjøl Christiansen, M. (2023). Coding Historical Causes of Death Data with Large Language Models. In: Bridging the Gap Between AI and Reality (AISoLA 2023). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14129. Springer.
NCHS. (2025). Instructions for Classifying the Underlying Cause-of-Death, ICD-10, 2025. CDC. https://
www .cdc .gov /nchs /nvss /manuals /2025 /2a -2025 .html Bureau of Labor Statistics. “Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics Technical Notes.” https://
www .bls .gov /oes /oes _doc .htm McKinney, W. (2020). “Using Machine Learning to Automate Data Coding at the Bureau of Labor Statistics.” Forbes. https://
www .forbes .com /sites /cognitiveworld /2020 /08 /01 /using -machine -learning -to -automate -data -coding -at -the -bureau -of -labor -statistics -bls/ Elias, P., et al. (2007). “Evaluating automated occupation coding.” PMC 3316486. https://
pmc .ncbi .nlm .nih .gov /articles /PMC3316486/ “Occupation Autocoding” (working paper, May 2024). https://
www .occautocoder .com /static /paper /occupation _autocoding _May2024 .pdf Scholastica Journal of Human and Social Sciences. “Utilizing Large Language Models for Text-Based Industry Classification” (2024). https://
jhss .scholasticahq .com /article /138087 -utilizing -large -language -models -for -text -based -industry -classification .pdf Coris AI. “GPT-4 Merchant Industry Classification: MCC, NAICS, Risk Analyst” (2024). https://
www .coris .ai /blog /gpt -4 -merchant -industry -classification -mcc -naics -risk -analyst Batatia, A., et al. (2025). “Text Classification in the LLM Era.” arXiv 2502.11830. https://
arxiv .org /html /2502 .11830v1 PMC 3900052. “Inter-coder reliability for occupation coding.” https://
pmc .ncbi .nlm .nih .gov /articles /PMC3900052/ Kessler Scholars. “Feasibility and Reliability of Automated Coding of Occupation in the HRS.” https://
kesslerscholars .org /publications /feasibility -and -reliability -of -automated -coding -of -occupation -in -the -health -and -retirement -study/
Prompt Engineering¶
Maxim AI. “Prompt Versioning: Best Practices for AI Engineering Teams” (2025). https://
www .getmaxim .ai /articles /prompt -versioning -best -practices -for -ai -engineering -teams/ Anthropic. “Prompt Engineering Guide: Classification.” https://
docs .anthropic .com /en /docs /build -with -claude /prompt -engineering /overview OpenAI. “Prompt Engineering Guide.” https://
platform .openai .com /docs /guides /prompt -engineering Google. “Prompt Design Strategies.” https://
ai .google .dev /gemini -api /docs /prompting -strategies
Statistical Disclosure Limitation and Privacy¶
Carlini, N., Tramer, F., Wallace, E., Jagielski, M., Herbert-Voss, A., Lee, K., Roberts, A., Brown, T. B., Song, D., Erlingsson, Ú., Oprea, A., & Raffel, C. (2021). Extracting training data from large language models. Proceedings of the 30th USENIX Security Symposium, 2633–2650.
Snoke, J., Raab, G. M., Nowok, B., Dibben, C., & Slavković, A. (2018). General and specific utility measures for synthetic data. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 181(3), 663–688.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. (2024). Toward a 21st Century National Data Infrastructure: Mobilizing Information for the Common Good. National Academies Press. https://
www .nationalacademies .org /read /27169 /chapter/6 Hogan Lovells. (2024). Model Inversion and Membership Inference: Understanding New AI Security Risks and Mitigating Vulnerabilities. https://
www .hoganlovells .com /en /publications /model -inversion -and -membership -inference -understanding -new -ai -security -risks -and -mitigating -vulnerabilities Microsoft Research. (2024). The Crossroads of Innovation and Privacy: Private Synthetic Data for Generative AI. https://
www .microsoft .com /en -us /research /blog /the -crossroads -of -innovation -and -privacy -private -synthetic -data -for -generative -ai/ Harvard Data Science Review. Statistical Agencies and AI: Implications for Official Statistics. https://
hdsr .mitpress .mit .edu /pub /m3fk4fah National Center for Education Statistics / FCSM. Data Protection Toolkit. https://
nces .ed .gov /fcsm /dpt /content /1 -3-4 NIST. Statistical Disclosure Limitation. CSRC Glossary. https://
csrc .nist .gov /glossary /term /statistical _disclosure _limitation U.S. Census Bureau. Federal Statistical Research Data Centers. https://
www .census .gov /about /adrm /fsrdc .html
AI Transparency and Governance¶
Anthropic, Coreweave, et al. (2025). Navigating the Transparency-Privacy Trade-off in AI Systems. arXiv:2601.18127 [URL to be verified]. https://
arxiv .org /abs /2601 .18127 Webb, B. (2026). When AI Enters Federal Statistics: A Crosswalk Between Data Quality and AI Trustworthiness Frameworks. Zenodo. https://
zenodo .org /records /18772590
Model Selection and Deployment¶
Bosan, W. (2025). LLM Arena Pareto Frontier: Performance vs Cost. https://
winston -bosan .github .io /llm -pareto -frontier/ Sreenivas, S., et al. (2025). Revisiting Pruning vs Quantization for Small Language Models. Findings of EMNLP 2025. https://
aclanthology .org /2025 .findings -emnlp .645/ Inception Labs. (2026). Introducing Mercury 2. https://
www .inceptionlabs .ai /blog /introducing -mercury-2 Tong, Y., et al. (2025). Mercury: A Diffusion-Based Large Language Model Family. arXiv. https://
arxiv .org /pdf /2506 .17298 .pdf
Model Supply Chain Security¶
NIST. (2022). SP 800-218: Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF) Version 1.1. https://
csrc .nist .gov /publications /detail /sp /800 -218 /final