Grad Program Overview
CSSS
05/21/2014
Directionally Collapsible Measures of Association
Tamas Rudas, Statistics, Eötvös Loránd University
05/14/2014
What You Don't Know Can Kill You: Estimating Tuberculosis Drug Resistance Rates in South Africa Using Routinely Collected Data
Zoe McLaren, Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan
04/30/2014
Covariate Selection and Model Averaging in Semiparametric Estimation of Treatment Effects
Chris Muris, Economics, Simon Fraser University
04/23/2014
Item Count Technique Estimators under Respondent Error
John S. Ahlquist, Political Science, University of Wisconsin
04/16/2014
Modeling Insurgent Cooperation Networks Using Exponential Random Graphs and Rhetorical Frames
Steve Zech, Political Science (Zech), University of Washington
04/09/2014
Modeling Insurgent Cooperation Networks Using Exponential Random Graphs and Rhetorical Frames
Zane Kelly, UW Applied Physics Lab (Kelly), University of Washington
04/09/2014
Reproducible Research: A Primer for the Social Sciences
Ben Marwick, Anthropology, University of Washington
03/12/2014
Measurement issues in assessing possession rates of voter identification: Evidence from recent lawsuits in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin
Matt Barreto, Political Science, University of Washington
03/05/2014
Improving Electoral Integrity Through Information and Communications Technology: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Uganda
James Long, Political Science, University of Washington
02/26/2014
The network histogram, nonparametric function estimation, and graph limits
Patrick J. Wolfe, Statistics, University College London
02/19/2014
Limiting the Morbidity and Mortality Due to HIV Using GPS and Cell Phone Records
Adrian Dobra, CSSS, Statistics, Nursing, University of Washington
02/12/2014
A Direct Approach to Inference in Nonparametric and Semiparametric Quantile Models
Ruixuan Liu, Economics, University of Washington
02/05/2014
A Unified Complex: Conditionally Independent Dyadic Models for Multiple Complex Networks
A.C. Thomas, Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
01/29/2014
Strategies for Data Analysis with Two Types of Missing Values
Ofer Harel, Statistics, University of Connecticut
01/08/2014
Latent Variable Models that Account for Atypical Responses
Irini Moustaki, Statistics, London School of Economics
12/04/2013
Bonds and Battles: How Financial Markets Responded to Battlefield Events in the American Civil War
Jeffrey Arnold, Political Science, University of Rochester
11/20/2013
Reverse Engineering Chinese Censorship
Jennifer Pan, Government, Harvard University
11/13/2013
Kernel Balancing: A Balancing Method to Equalize Multivariate Densities and Reduce Bias without a Specification Search
Chad Hazlett, Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11/06/2013
Party Cohesion in Westminster Systems: Inducements, Replacement and Discipline in the House of Commons, 1836-1910
Arthur Spirling, Government, Harvard University
10/30/2013
Identifiability of linear structural equation models
Mathias Drton, Statistics, University of Washington
10/02/2013
Model Based Clustering to Capture Climate Variability
Matt Dunbar, Ecology, University of Washington
05/15/2013
Model Based Clustering to Capture Climate Variability
Sara Curran, Center for Studies in Demography, University of Washington
05/15/2013
CSSS Course Overview
CSSS
05/08/2013
Dynamic Demographic Network Models of HIV Transmission among Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) in the United States and Peru
Steve Goodreau, Anthropology, University of Washington
04/24/2013
Tracing the Flow of Policy Ideas in Legislatures: A Computational Approach
John Wilkerson, Political Science, University of Washington
04/17/2013
Using Social Network Analysis to Study the Dynamics of Cultural Transmission
Daniel Grunspan, Anthropology, University of Washington
04/10/2013
Heckman Selection Models to Correct Estimates of HIV Prevalence
Sam Clark, Sociology, University of Washington
04/03/2013
Optimality and Preference in Dynamic Treatment Regimes
Daniel Lizotte, Computer Science, University of Waterloo
03/06/2013
Psychometrics and Genetics
Paul Crane, General Internal Medicine, University of Washington
02/27/2013
Statistical Models for Multiway Array Data
Peter Hoff, CSSS, Statistics, Biostatistics, University of Washington
02/20/2013
Statistical Machine Learning and Big-p Data
Pradeep Ravikumar, Computer Science, University of Texas, Austin
02/13/2013
Lightweight Research Data Management with SQLSharey
Bill Howe, eScience Institute, University of Washington
02/06/2013
An Introduction to the Theory of Incentives
Fahad Khalil, Economics, University of Washington
01/23/2013
Pediatric Inpatient Hospitalizations for Non-Traumatic Dental Conditions
Donald L. Chi, Dentistry and Oral Health, University of Washington
01/16/2013
Iterative Scaling for Irregular Patterns of Association
Anna Klimova, Statistics, University of Washington
12/05/2012
Bayesian Inference for Two-Phase Studies with Categorical Covariates
Michelle Ross, Biostatistics, University of Washington
11/21/2012
Predicting and Explaining Strategic Legislative Transparency
Dan Pemstein, Political Science, North Dakota State University
11/14/2012
Persuasion, Ideology, and Speech: Using automated text analysis to model opinion formation and change
Nick Beauchamp, Political Science, New York University
11/06/2012
A Dynamic Ordinal Item Response Theory Model of Political Repression and Accountability Standards
Christopher J Fariss, Political Science, University of California, San Diego
10/31/2012
Single World Intervention Graphs (SWIGs): A Unification of the Counterfactual and Graphical Approaches to Causality
Thomas Richardson, CSSS, Statistics, University of Washington
10/10/2012
Course Overview
CSSS
05/30/2012
Is the Privacy of Network Data an Oxymoron?
Stephen E. Fienberg, Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
05/23/2012
Does Marriage Boost Men's Wages?: Identification of Treatment Effects in Fixed Effects Regression Models for Panel Data
Michael Sobel, Statistics, Columbia University
05/16/2012
Studying the link between ambient air pollution and cardiovascular diseases
Joel Kaufman, Env. and Occ. Health Sciences, Epidemiology, General Internal Medicine, University of Washington
05/09/2012
Big data meets medical care: Patient-level predictive models for large-scale medical data
Tyler McCormick, Statistics and Sociology, University of Washington
05/02/2012
Nature's false confessions: a proposal for comprehensive registration to discourage data fishing in political science
Macartan Humphreys, Political Science, Columbia University
04/18/2012
Modeling and Optimizing Word of Mouth with Markov Logic
Pedro Domingos, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
04/11/2012
Cultural Phylogenetics of Religion using Thai Bronze Buddha Statues
Ben Marwick, Anthropology, University of Washington
04/04/2012
Inference for epidemics in progress: incorporating contact tracing information
Gareth Roberts, Statistics, University of Warwick
03/14/2012
Forecasting Commodity Prices with Mixed-Frequency Data: An OLS-Based Generalized ADL Approach
Yu-Chin Chen, Economics, University of Washington
02/22/2012
Estimating Lifetime or Episode-of-illness Costs under Censoring
Anirban Basu, Pharmacy and Health Services, University of Washington
02/15/2012
Fast Inference for Model-Based Clustering of Networks Using an Approximate Case-Control Likelihood
Adrian E. Raftery, Statistics and Sociology, University of Washington
02/08/2012
Measuring Threshold Performance in Behavioral Experiments
Geoffrey Boynton, Psychology, University of Washington
02/01/2012
Gaussian processes for learning about climate model parameters
Murali Haran, Statistics, University of Washington
01/25/2012
The growing importance of education as a fundamental cause of mortality in the United States
Mark D. Hayward, Sociology, University of Texas
01/11/2012
Estimating Demographic Parameters with Uncertainty from Fragmentary Data
Mark Wheldon, Statistics, University of Washington
12/07/2011
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Brendan Murphy, Statistics, University College, Dublin
11/30/2011
Diffusion weighted imaging & tractography: when is a fiber tract not a tract?
Ione Fine, Psychology, University of Washington
11/23/2011
Estimation of the Optimal Time to Start Antiretroviral Therapy in HIV Infected Patients using Dynamic Regime Marginal Structural Models
James M. Robins, Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Harvard University
11/16/2011
Bayesian Hierarchical Semiparametric Modeling of Longitudinal Post-treatment Outcomes from Open-enrollment Therapy Groups
Susan Paddock, Rand Corporation
11/09/2011
EMOD-HIV: A Stochastic Individual-Based Model of HIV Transmission for Evaluating Public Health Interventions in Southern Africa
Daniel Klein, Intellectual Ventures Laboratory
10/26/2011
EMOD-HIV: A Stochastic Individual-Based Model of HIV Transmission for Evaluating Public Health Interventions in Southern Africa
Anna Bershteyn, Intellectual Ventures Laboratory
10/26/2011
The Structure of Online Diffusion Networks
Sharad Goel, Management Science & Engineering, Stanford University
10/19/2011
Estimating age specific mortality: a new model life table system with flexible standard mortality schedule
Haidong Wang, Global Health, University of Washington
10/12/2011
Computer Coded Verbal Autopsy: interviews and machine learning for measuring cause-specific mortality
Abraham Flaxman, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington
10/05/2011
Urban Patterns and Carbon Dynamics: Emerging Hypotheses and Research Strategies
Marina Alberti, Urban Design and Planning, University of Washington
05/25/2011
Course Overview
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05/18/2011
From Fourier to Forensics
Michael Weissman, Physics, University of Illinois
05/04/2011
A New Method for Constructing Model Life Tables: Example Using Life Tables from the Human Mortality Database
Samuel Clark, Sociology, University of Washington
04/27/2011
Blurred Boundaries: A New Measure of Implicit Categorical Perception
Mara Sedlins, Psychology, University of Washington
04/20/2011
A New Method for Constructing Model Life Tables: Example Using Life Tables from the Human Mortality Database.
Samuel Clark, Sociology, University of Washington
03/09/2011
Congress and the Politics of Problem Solving
John D. Wilkerson, Political Science, University of Washington
03/02/2011
A Bayesian Model for Cluster Detection
Jon Wakefield, Statistics and Biostatistics, University of Washington
02/23/2011
How the built environment affects behavior: recent research in active transportation and health
Anne Moudon, Urban Design and Planning, University of Washington
02/09/2011
Selection along the pathways to adult health disparities
Robert G. White, Sociology and Criminology & Law, University of Florida
02/02/2011
Measurement error in retrospective careers: A latent Markov model
Anna Manzoni, Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course (CIQLE), Yale University
01/25/2011
Harnessing network science to reveal our digital footprints
Jukka-Pekka Onnela, Biostatistics, Harvard University
01/20/2011
Exploring the housing crisis with ggplot2 and plyr
Hadley Wickham, Statistics, Rice University
01/19/2011
Bayesian Inference for Mediation Effects Using Principal Stratification
Michael Elliot, Biostatistics, University of Michigan
01/12/2011
Using the List Experiment/Item Count Technique to Elicit Honest Answers to Sensitive Survey Questions
Adam Glynn, Government, Harvard University
12/08/2010
Using Network Structure to Estimate Latent Features in Hard-to-Reach Populations
Tyler H. McCormick, Statistics and Sociology, University of Washington
12/01/2010
Congress and the Politics of Problem Solving
John D. Wilkerson, Political Science, University of Washington
11/24/2010
From SATE to PATT: The Essential Role of Placebo Tests for Combining Experimental with Observational Studies
Jasjeet Sekhon, Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
11/17/2010
Testing the Family Investment Hypothesis: Theory and Evidence
Seik Kim, Economics, University of Washington
10/27/2010
Vitality-based Intrinsic and Extrinsic Mortality Processes Explain Patterns in Human Survival
Ting Li, Quantitative Ecology and Resource Management (QERM), University of Washington
10/20/2010
Describing the Dividend Process
Dick Startz, Economics, University of Washington
10/13/2010
Bayesian Inference for General Gaussian Graphical Models with Application to Multivariate Lattice Data
Adrian Dobra, Statistics and Nursing, University of Washington
10/06/2010
Can Voter ID Laws Be Administered in a Race-Neutral Manner? Evidence from the City of Boston
Kevin Quinn, Law, University of California, Berkeley
06/02/2010
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Thomas Richardson, Statistics, University of Washington
05/26/2010
Course Overview
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05/19/2010
Confidentiality in high-dimensional data
Thomas Lumley, Biostatistics, University of Washington
05/12/2010
Tree-Ring Based Climate Reconstruction
Matthew Schofield, Applied Statistics Center, Columbia University
05/05/2010
Model selection in exploratory latent class and mixture models: What's to be preferred?
Brian Flaherty, Psychology, University of Washington
04/28/2010
Causal Inference with Interference and Transmission
Betz Halloran, Biostatistics, University of Washington
04/21/2010
Cash on delivery: an impact evaluation of India's Janani Suraksha Yojana program to increase in-facility births
Emmanuela Gakidou, Global Health, University of Washington
04/14/2010
Causal Inference and Medical Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Jasjeet Sekhon, Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
04/07/2010
A New Understanding of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
Allan Stam, Political Science, University of Michigan
03/10/2010
The Quantum and Tempo of Life-Cycle Events
John Bongaarts, Policy Research Division, The Population Council
03/03/2010
Addressing lack of common support in causal inference using Bayesian non-parametrics
Jennifer Hill, Humanities and Social Sciences, New York University Steinhardt
02/24/2010