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The CSSS Seminar features local and visiting scholars presenting current research at the intersection of statistics and the social sciences.

Seminars are held in Savery 409 on Wednesdays from 12:30-1:30 pm during the academic year. Seminars are available to anyone interested and are presented in a hybrid format.
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Graduate students pursuing a CSSS track may receive credit by enrolling in CSSS 590.

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Future Seminars

Title Speaker Time
The Global Burden of Disease Study: A 34-year journey to make the invisible visible Rob Aldridge, Professor of Health Metrics Sciences, UW
Survey Sampling in Difficult Contexts Gabriella Levy, Assistant Professor, Political Science, UW

Past Seminars

Title Speaker Date
Digraph dynamics with heterogeneous vertices Michael Schweinberger, Sociology, University of Groningen
Quality and Inequality in Two-Sided Matching Markets James Moody, Sociology, Ohio State University
Average predictive effects for models with nonlinearity, interactions, and variance components Iain Pardoe, Lundquist School of Business University of Oregon
Average predictive effects for models with nonlinearity, interactions, and variance components Iain Pardoe, Decision Sciences, Lundquist School of Business University of Oregon
Bayesian Inference for Semiparametric Quantal Response Equilibrium Models Kevin Quinn, Government, Harvard University
Statistical Paternalism Bill Talbott, Philosophy, University of Washington
Assessing Specification Tests: A Cautionary Tale Scott Long, Sociology, Indiana University
National Latino and Asian American Study: Some Preliminary Results David Takeuchi, School of Social Work, University of Washington
Probabilistic Weather Forecasting: Statistical and Cognitive Aspects Adrian Raftery, Statistics and Sociology, University of Washington
Modeling world health outcomes at the turn of the century Alejandro Murua, Statistics, University of Washington
Representing Uncertainty in Latent Space Models of Occupational Segregation across Sex, Race, and Ethnic Groups Mark Handcock, Sociology, University of Washington
Representing Uncertainty in Latent Space Models of Occupational Segregation across Sex, Race, and Ethnic Groups Barbara Reskin, Sociology, University of Washington
Representing Uncertainty in Latent Space Models of Occupational Segregation across Sex, Race, and Ethnic Groups Lowell Hargens, Sociology, University of Washington
Representing Uncertainty in Latent Space Models of Occupational Segregation across Sex, Race, and Ethnic Groups Beth Hirsh, Sociology, University of Washington
Age-at-Marriage Patterns can emerge from individual mate-search heuristics Francesco Billari, Institute of Quantitative Methods, Universita Bocconi and IGIER
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The Effect of Residential Segregation on Interracial Friendship in Schools Ted Mouw, Sociology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Beyond Right and Wrong: A Spatial Approach to Categorically Scored Objective Items Anne Thissen-Roe, Psychology, University of Washington
Beyond Right and Wrong: A Spatial Approach to Categorically Scored Objective Items Earl Hunt, Psychology, University of Washington
Deconstructing Symmetry Darryl Holman, Anthropology, University of Washington
Clicks, Clogs, and Customers: Predictive Modeling in E-business Andreas Weigend, Amazon.com
Determining the Effects of Teacher Education on P-12 Learning: Some Conceptual Issues Bill McDiarmid, Education, University of Washington
Statistical Game Theory Michael Chwe, Political Science, UCLA
"Partnering 'Out' and Fitting In: Residential Segregation and the Neighborhood Contexts of Mixed-Race Households Mark Ellis, Geography, University of Washington
Paper Autonomy, Private Ambition:Central Bankers' Careers and the Economy Christopher Adolph, Government, Harvard University
Spatial Heterogeneity and Tax Effort in Russia's Regions Avery Ke, Economics, University of Washington
Spatial Heterogeneity and Tax Effort in Russia's Regions Krisztina Nagy, Economics, University of Washington
Spatial Heterogeneity and Tax Effort in Russia's Regions Judy Thornton, Economics, University of Washington
A Statistical View of Learning in the Centipede Game Peter Hoff, Statistics, University of Washington
A Statistical View of Learning in the Centipede Game Anton Westveld, CSSS, University of Washington
Interviewer Effects in the Elicitation of Sexual and Drug Injection Partners Devon Brewer, Interdisciplinary Scientific Research and STD Program, Public Health-Seatle and King County
A New Approach to Measuring the Racial Impact of Redistricting Gary King, Government, Harvard University
A New Approach to Measuring the Racial Impact of Redistricting Andrew Gelman, Statistics, Columbia University
A New Approach to Measuring the Racial Impact of Redistricting Jonathan Katz, Humanities & Sciences, California Institute of Technology
Marginal Modeling of Multilevel Binary Data with Time-Varying Covariates Patrick Heagarty, Biostatistics, University of Washington
Marginal Modeling of Multilevel Binary Data with Time-Varying Covariates Diana Miglioretti, Center for Health Statistics, Group Health Cooperative
Linking Random Graph and Loglinear Models of Networks Martina Morris, Statistics & Sociology, University of Washington
Linking Random Graph and Loglinear Models of Networks Steve Goodreau, CSSS and CFAR, University of Washington
Major, Minor and Internal Categories of PNAS Research Reports Elena Erosheva, Statistics and Social Work, University of Washington
A Markov Switching Model of Congressional Party Regimes Dick Startz, Economics, University of Washington
A Markov Switching Model of Congressional Party Regimes Bryan Jones, Political Science, University of Washington
Assessing the Effects of Measurement Error in Cross-National Social Research Eric Wibbels, Sociology, University of Washington
Assessing the Effects of Measurement Error in Cross-National Social Research Michael Hechter, Sociology, University of Washington
Assessing the Effects of Measurement Error in Cross-National Social Research Kevin Quinn, Political Science, University of Washington
Improved inference for the partially identified instrumental variables regression model Eric Zivot, Economics, University of Washington
Aggregate Demographic Uncertainty and Policy Risk Shripad Tuljapurkar, Biological Sciences, Stanford University
Axiomatic Foundations for Person-Tradeoffs John Miyamoto, Psychology, University of Washington
Association Models for a Multivariate Multinomial Response Peter Smith, Social Statistics, University of Southampton
Political Interactions in Central Asia: A Latent Space Analysis Peter Hoff, Statistics, University of Washington
Political Interactions in Central Asia: A Latent Space Analysis Mike Ward, Political Science, University of Washington
Quantitative Analysis of Intonation in an Endangered Language Alice Taff, Preventative Medicine, UC Davis
Quantitative Analysis of Intonation in an Endangered Language Thomas Richardson, Preventative Medicine, UC Davis
Quantitative Analysis of Intonation in an Endangered Language Jacob Wegelin, Epidemiology, UC Davis
The Census and the Supreme Court: Sampling and Imputation Lara Wolfson, World Health Organization
Women, Education, and Marriage in the United States Elaina Rose, Economics, University of Washington
Describing Sexual Partnerships: Issues, Approaches and (a little bit of) Data Jim Hughes, Biostatistics, University of Washington
Ecological Inference in Epidemiology Jon Wakefield, Biostatistics and Statistics, University of Washington
Why is Simpson's paradox a paradox? Thomas Richardson, Statistics, University of Washington
Statistical Inference in Constrained Models Ron Schoenberg, Applications Director, Aptech Systems
ModelingSocial Networks with Sampled or Missing Data Mark Handcock, Statistics, University of Washington
Exact goodness of fit tests with applications in the social sciences Julian Besag, Statistics, University of Washington
Settings in Social Networks: Representation by Latent Transitive Structures Martin Schweinberger, The Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Semiparametric Hierarchical Bayes Analysis of Discrete Panel Data with State Dependence Ivan Jeliazkov, Economics, Washington University, St Louis
Data Mining Conversational Cyberspace Marc Smith, Microsoft Research
Recidivism and Social Interactions Sibel Sirakaya
Efficient Semiparametric Estimation of Quantile Treatment Effects Sergio Firpo, Economics, University of California - Berkeley
Recidivism and Social Interactions Sibel Sirakaya
Efficient Semiparametric Estimation of Quantile Treatment Effects Sergio Firpo, Economics, University of California - Berkeley
Applications of growth-mixture modelling in violence research Karl Hill, Social Developement Research Group, University of Washington
Laws and their stability Marc Lange, Philosophy, University of Washington
The importance of statistical methodology for causal inferences with field experiments: evaluating voter mobilization strategies Kosuke Imai
Causal inference with general treatment regime generalizing the propensity score Kosuke Imai
Rent Destruction, Social Class, and the Earnings of Black and White Males, 1982-2000 Stephen Morgan, Sociology, Cornell University
The Impact of Labor Market Selectivity on the Gender Wage Gap Jen Hook, Sociology, University of Washington
The Impact of Labor Market Selectivity on the Gender Wage Gap Becky Pettit, Sociology, University of Washington
Sociology's Missing Matter: Modeling the Social Context of Employment, Marriage, and Networks John Allen Logan, Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin
Accounting for degree distributions in empirical analysis of network dynamics Tom A.B. Snijders, ICS, University of Groningen
Networks and Neighborhoods: Modelling generalised network structure Philippa (Pip) Pattison, University of Melbourne
Does Asymmetric Power Help Agents Generate and Maintain Cooperation in Competitive Games? Stephen Majeski, Political Science, University of Washington
Using Large Data Sets to Improve Validity of the Implicit Association Test - A Latency Based Cognitive Measure Anthony Greenwald, Psychology,, University of Washington
Picturing Segregation: The Structure of Occupational Segregation by Race, Sex, Ethnicity and Hispanicity Barbara Reskin, Sociology, University of Washington
Picturing Segregation: The Structure of Occupational Segregation by Race, Sex, Ethnicity and Hispanicity Lowell Hargens, Sociology, University of Washington
Sexual Network Scaling and Epidemic Thresholds Jamie Jones, Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences and CFAR, University of Washington
Persistent Inequality? Models that Provide Clearer Answers Marc Scott, Humanities and the Social Sciences, New York University
What Do Randomized Studies of Housing Mobility Reveal? Michael Sobel, Sociology, Columbia University
Co-occurring Problem Behaviors Assessing Suicide Risk Among High Risk Adolescents: A Classification And Regression Tree Model Elaine Thompson, Psychosocial and Community Health, University of Washington
A Statistical Model of Voting in Structure Induced Equilibrium, with an Application to the U.S. Supreme Court Andrew Martin, Political Science, CSSS, Washington University in St. Louis, University of Washington
Data Mining for Viral Marketing Pedro Domingos, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
Understanding Human Variation in Initiation of Breastfeeding: A Mixture Model Analysis Darryl Holman, Anthropology, University of Washington
Analyzing Legislative Roll Call Data via Markov-chain Monte Carlo: Testing the Party Discipline Hypothesis Simon Jackman, Political Science, Stanford University
Sins of Commission vs. Sins of Omission: How Confounding Can be Induced by Including 'Irrelevant' Covariates in Regression Thomas Richardson, Statistics, University of Washington
Ecological Inference Revisited Jon Wakefield, Biostatistics and Statistics, University of Washington
Dynamic Panel Data Models: Theory and Applications Dylan Small, Statistics, Stanford University
Overdetermined Estimating Equations with Applications to Panel Data Dylan Small, Statistics, Stanford University
An Introduction to Multiple-Bias Modeling for Observational Data Analysis Sander Greenland, Epidemiology, University of California Los Angeles
Quantifying Biases in Causal Models: Classical Confounding Versus Collider-Stratification Bias Sander Greenland, Epidemiology, University of California Los Angeles
Designing Individually Tailored Preventive-Interventions and the Use of Clinical Judgment Susan Murphy, Statistics, University of Michigan
Accounting for Rater Variability and Dependence in Constructed Response Assessments Louis Mariano, Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
Accounting for Information Accumulation and Rater Behavior in Constructed Response Student Assessments Louis Mariano, Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
Latent Space Approaches to Network Analysis Peter Hoff, Statistics and CSSS, University of Washington