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Current research projects:

• Measuring gender-based homophily in scientific collaborations (with Y. Samuel Wang, Carole J. Lee, Jevin West, and Carl Bergstrom).
• Rational Choice, Deterrence, and Identity: Modeling Life Course Transitions and Desistance (with Ross L. Matsueda).
• Partial Mastery Cognitive Diagnosis Models (with Gongjun Xu).
• Identifying Commensuration Bias in Grant Review (with Carole Lee). First Prize winner in the category of Most Creative Idea for Detection of Bias in Peer Review, the Center for Scientific Review, NIH.

Past research projects:

• Fast Approximate Inference for Mixed Membership Models (with Y. Samuel Wang).
• Veteran Health Examination Survey pilot project, Department of Veterans Affairs Cooperative Studies Programming (with Nicholas Smith and the ERIC group).
• Respondent-driven Sampling for Hard-to-Reach Populations with Complex Network Clustering (with Krista Gile, Mark Handcock, and Maryclare Griffin). Maryclare's paper from this project has won the 2015 Student Paper Award from the Government Statistics/Social Statistics/Survey Methods Research sections of the American Statistical Association; to be presented at the 2015 Joint Statistical Meetings in Seattle.
• Life-Course Trajectories of Substance Use and Crime (with Ross L. Matsueda and Donatello Telesca). Winner of the 2013 Mitchell Prize from the International Society of Bayesian Analysis.
• Caring and Aging with Pride (with Karen Fredriksen-Goldsen).
• Mixed Outcome Latent Variable Models (with Jonathan Gruhl).
• Cognitive Outcomes with Advanced Psychometrics (with Paul K. Crane).
• Operational definition of disability in the National Long Term Care Survey.
• Modeling Longitudinal Disability Data (with Stephen E. Fienberg).

Last updated: August, 2018

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