Frank J. Potter
Senior Fellow

Potter is the lead statistician on two other evaluations of SSA programs being conducted by Mathematica: the Youth Transition Demonstration Project and the Accelerated Benefits Demonstration Project. He recently was the project director for the design, sampling and weighting of the 2007–2008 Physician Survey Component of the Community Tracking Study, conducted for the Center for Studying Health System Change with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Potter was the project director or the senior statistician on all four prior rounds of data collection (2004–2005, 2000–2001, 1998–1999, and 1996–1997).

Previously, for Mathematica’s evaluation of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, he was lead statistician and directed the selection (using both single-stage and multistage designs) of more than 25,000 children who were currently or previously enrolled in this program in 10 states. He was also the senior statistician for the design and implementation of SSA’s National Survey of Children and Families; a multistage survey to collect information on 9,000 children with disabilities who were receiving or have applied for Supplemental Security Income. He directed the sample selection and the weighting, estimation, and imputation activities. He has also designed surveys of businesses, health care professionals and facilities, food banks, and military personnel and veterans.

Potter has authored many publications on statistical methods such as trimming extreme survey weights; composite size measures; telephone surveys; and surveys of employers, physicians, and veterans. He presents frequently at professional conferences. He was an associate editor for the Journal of Official Statistics and acts as a referee for various journals. He has also served on committees for the American Statistical Association and for the International Conference on Establishment Surveys, and in many capacities for the statistics section of the American Public Health Association. He holds a Ph.D. in biostatistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.