by afrancis1 | Jan 21, 2022 | news, Uncategorized
Congratulations to Xingruo (Summer) Zhang on being selected as one of five winners of ASA’s Health Policy Statistics Section (HPSS) student paper competition for 2022. Her paper entitled “Defining R-Squared Measures for Mixed-Effects Location Scale...
by afrancis1 | Dec 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
Congratulations to Professor James Evans, Department of Sociology, for being named Max Palevsky Professor in History and Civilizations in the College. James uses large-scale data, machine learning and generative models to understand how collectives think and what they...
by afrancis1 | Jul 22, 2021 | news
For those unfamiliar with Item Response Theory, it is a statistical theory and related methodology that relates a series of item responses (binary, ordinal or nominal) to one or more latent variables (e.g. mathematical ability, depression, … ). It is similar to...
by afrancis1 | Apr 12, 2021 | news
Professor Guanglei Hong has been named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for her project entitled “Economically Vulnerable Youth during the Great Recession: Risks and Protections.” Her research focuses on developing methods for...
by afrancis1 | Jan 25, 2021 | news, Uncategorized
Congratulations to Qianheng Ma, 5th year doctoral student in Public Health Sciences, who was selected by the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology (SMEP), to receive the 2021 SMEP Dissertation Research Grant. SMEP is an organization of quantitative...
