Mark S. Handcock
Professor of Statistics
Ph.D.: University of Chicago, Statistics, 1989
B.Sc. (Hons): University of Western Australia, Mathematics, 1983
Office: B-313 Padelford Hall (Exact Google Map Location)
Phone: 206-543-6774 Fax: 206-457-1953 Mailing
Address
E-mail: handcock@stat.washington.edu
curriculum vitae (PDF)
Mark moved to the University of California - Los Angeles in 2010.
Research Interests
Dr. Handcock's research involves methodological development, and is based largely on motivation from questions in the social sciences.
His work focuses on the development of statistical models for the analysis of social network data, spatial processes and longitudinal data arising in labor economics.
Recent applications have been to social relations networks with the objective of understanding the social determinants of HIV spread, and the combination of survey and population-level information.
He also works in the fields of distributional comparisons, environmental statistics, spatial statistics and inference for stochastic processes.
Recent applications have been to models for
stream networks that combine information from multiple environmental surveys,
models of stochastic curves with application to job instability and
age-earnings profiles, and the development of graphical tools for
distributional comparison.
Interdisciplinary affiliations at UW
Dr. Handcock is a core faculty
member of the Center
for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS).
He is the past Director of the Statistics Core and an affiliate of the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology. He is on the faculty of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Urban Design and Planning. He is also an affiliate of the Northwest Research Center for Statistics and the Environment.
Teaching
Dr. Handcock has recently taught:
Spring 2009:
o
STAT 529 Sample Survey Techniques
Autumn 2007:
Autumn 2003-2006, Spring 2007-2008, Autumn 2008:
o
CSS&S
567 Statistical Analysis of Networks Jointly
listed as STAT 567 and SOC 567.
Winter 2004-2007:
o CSS&S 321 Case-based Social Statistics I Jointly listed as STAT 321 and SOC 321.
Spring 2004:
o CSS&S 560 Hierarchical Modeling for the Social Sciences Jointly listed as STAT 560 and SOC 560.
Winter 2003:
o CSS&S 594 Distributional Methods Jointly listed as STAT 594 and SOC 590C..
Spring
2002:
o CSS&S 322 Case-based Social Statistics II Jointly listed as STAT 322 and SOC 322.
o CSS&S 505 Review of Mathematics for Social Scientists .
Winter 2002:
o CSS&S 321 Case-based Social Statistics I Jointly listed as STAT 321 and SOC 321.
o CSS&S 506 Computer Environments for the Social Sciences
Books
“A
Casebook for a First Course in Statistics and Data Analysis,” John Wiley and Sons, 1995 (with
“Relative
Distribution Methods in the Social Sciences,”
“Divergent Paths: Economic Mobility in the New American Labor
Market,” Russell Sage Foundation,
Representative Peer-Reviewed Publications
“Respondent-Driven Sampling: An Assessment of Current Methodology” (2010) (with Krista J. Gile). To appear in Sociological Methodology, 40. Manuscript at http://arxiv.org/abs/0904.1855
“Resolving Contested Elections: The Limited Power of Post-Vote Vote Choice Data,” (2009) (with Adam Glynn and Thomas S. Richardson). To appear in the Journal of the American Statistical Association, 104.
“Representing Degree Distributions, Clustering, and Homophily in Social Networks With Latent Cluster Random Effects Models” (2009) (with Pavel Krivitsky, Peter Hoff and Adrian E. Raftery). Social Networks,, 31, 3, 204-213.
“Goodness
of Fit of Social Network Models” (2008) (with David R. Hunter and
“Generalised Linear Models Incorporating Population Level Information: An Empirical Likelihood Based Approach” (2008) (with Sanjay Chaudhuri and Michael S. Rendall). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, B, 70, Part 2, pp. 311-328.
“Bayesian estimation of Hispanic fertility hazards from survey and population data” (2008) (with Michael S. Rendall and Stefan H. Jonsson). Demography, 46, 1, 65-83.
“Modeling Networks from Sampled Data” (2008) (with Krista J. Gile). To appear in the Annals of Applied Statistics.
“Degree distributions in sexual networks: A framework for evaluating evidence” (2008) (with Deven Hamilton and Martina Morris). Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Jan 35, 1, 30-40.
“Comparison of Maximum Pseudo Likelihood and Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Exponential Random Graph Models” (2008) (with Marijtje van Duijn and Krista J. Gile). Social Networks, 30, 1, 52-62.
“statnet: Software Tools for the Representation, Visualization, Analysis and Simulation of Network Data.” (2008) (with Steven M. Goodreau, David R. Hunter, Carter T. Butts, and Martina Morris). Journal of Statistical Software, 24(1). URL: http://www.jstatsoft.org/v24/i01
“ergm: A Package to Fit, Simulate and Diagnose Exponential-Family Models for Networks.” (2008) (with Steven M. Goodreau, David R. Hunter, Carter T. Butts, and Martina Morris). Journal of Statistical Software, 24(3). URL: http://www.jstatsoft.org/v24/i03
“Specification of Exponential-Family Random Graph Models: Terms and Computational Aspects.” (2008) (with David R. Hunter and Martina Morris). Journal of Statistical Software, 24(4). URL: http://www.jstatsoft.org/v24/i04
“Fitting Latent Cluster Models for Social Networks with latentnet.” (2008) (with Pavel N. Krivitsky). Journal of Statistical Software, 24(5). URL: http://www.jstatsoft.org/v24/i05
“networksis: A Package to Simulate Bipartite Graphs with Fixed Marginals through Sequential Importance Sampling.” (2008) (with Ryan Admiraal). Journal of Statistical Software, 24(8). URL: http://www.jstatsoft.org/v24/i08
“A statnet Tutorial.” (2008) (with Steven M. Goodreau, David R. Hunter, Carter T. Butts, and Martina Morris). Journal of Statistical Software, 24(9). URL: http://www.jstatsoft.org/v24/i09
“Population constraints on pooled surveys in demographic hazard modeling.” (2008) (with Michael Rendall, Ryan Admiraal, Alessandra DeRose, Paola DiGiulio, and Filomena Racioppi). Statistical Methods and Applications, DOI 10.1007/s10260-008-0106-8.
“Alleviating Linear Ecological Bias and Optimal Design with Subsample Data.” (2008) (with Adam Glynn, Jon Wakefield, and Thomas Richardson). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, A, 171, Part 1, pp. 179-202.
“Model-Based Clustering for Social Networks” (2007) (with Adrian E. Raftery and Jeremy Tantrum). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, A, 170, 2, 301-354 as a read paper.
“A curved exponential family model for complex networks” (2008). (with Martina Morris) Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, DOI 10.1007/s10588-008-9055-x.
“Model-Based Combination of Spatial Information for Stream Networks” (2007). Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 14,3, DOI: 10.1007/s10651-007-0015-2.
“Recent developments in Exponential Random Graph (p*) Models for Social Networks.” (2006) (with Garry Robins, Tom Snijders, Peng Wang, and Philippa Pattison). Social Networks, 29,2,192-215.
“Positional Estimation within the Latent Space Model for Networks” (2006) (with
“Prevalence of HIV Infection Among Young
Adults In The
“Inference in curved exponential family models for networks” (2006) (with D. R. Hunter). Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 15, 3, September 2006, pp. 565-583.
“New specifications for exponential random graph models” (2006) (with Tom A.B. Snijders, Philippa E. Pattison and Garry L. Robins). Sociological Methodology, 36, 99-153.
“Improved Regression Estimation of a Multivariate Relationship with Population Data on the Bivariate Relationship” (2005) (with M. S. Rendall and J. E. Cheadle). Sociological Methodology, 35, 303-346.
“Interval estimates for epidemic thresholds in two-sex network models.” (2005) (with J. H. Jones). Theoretical Population Biology, 70 (2): 125-134 Sep 2006.
“Persistent Inequality? Answers from Hybrid Models for Longitudinal Data.” (2005) (with M. A. Scott), Sociological Methods and Research, 34, 1, 3-30.
“Comparative Geographic Concentrations of Four Sexually Transmitted Infections” (2004) (with R. P. Kerani H. H. Handsfield, and K. K. Holmes). American Journal of Public Health, Feb 1 2005; 95 (2): 324-330.
“Sexual contacts and epidemic thresholds” (2003). Nature, 423, 6940, 605-606 (with J. H. Jones).
“An assessment of preferential attachment as a mechanism for human sexual network formation” (2003) Proceedings of the Royal Society, B, 270, 1123-1128 (with J. H. Jones).
“Relating Resources to a Probabilistic Measure Of Space Use: Forest Fragments And Steller's Jays” (2004) Ecology, 85(5), 1411-1427 (with J. Marzluff, J. J. Millspaugh, and P. Hurvitz).
“Latent Space Approaches to Social Network Analysis” (2002) Journal of the American Statistical Association, 97, 1090-1098. (with P. Hoff and A. E. Raftery).
“Covariance Models for Latent Structure in Longitudinal Data,” Sociological Methodology, 2001, 31, 265-303. (with M. Scott).
“Comparing earnings inequality using two major surveys.” Monthly Labor Review, 123, 3 (March 2000), p. 48-61. (with M. Morris and A. D. Bernhardt).
“Combining Survey and Population Data on
Births and Family.” Demography, 2000, Demography, 37, 2, p.
187-192. (with M. Rendall and
“Trends in Job Instability and Wages for
Young Adult Men,” Journal of Labor Economics, 1999 (with A.D.
Bernhardt, M. Morris and M. Scott).
“Relative Distribution Methods” Sociological Methodology, 1998, 28, 53-97, (with M. Morris).
“Women's Gains or Men's Losses? A closer look at the Shrinking Gender Gap in Earnings,” American Journal Sociology, 1995 (with A.D. Bernhardt and M. Morris).
“An Approach to Statistical Spatial-Temporal Modeling of Meteorological Fields,” (with discussion); Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1994 (with J. Wallis).
“Economic Inequality: New Methods for New Trends,” American Sociological Review, 1994 (with A.D. Bernhardt and M. Morris).
“A Bayesian Analysis of Kriging,” Technometrics, 1993 (with M.L. Stein).
“On Cascading Latin Hypercube Designs and Additive Models for Experiments,” Communications in Statistics, 1991.
“Some Asymptotic Properties of Kriging When the Covariance Function is Misspecified,” Mathematical Geology, 1989 (with M.L. Stein).
Software
o For more information on Relative Distribution Methods, including the preface to the book, data sets, and software to implement the methods are available from the Relative Distribution website.
o For more information on R software to implement the statistical methods described in the paper Resource utilization by an avian nest predator: relating resources to a probabilistic measure of animal space use, by John M. Marzluff, J. J. Millspaugh, P. Hurvitz, and Mark S. Handcock, Ecology, 2004, 85:1411-1427, see the Resource Utilization Function Estimation website.
o The R software package statnet: software tools for the representation, visualization, analysis and simulation of social network data.
o The R software package latentnet: software to fit and evaluate latent position and cluster models for statistical networks.
o The R software package networksis: A Package to Simulate Bipartite Graphs with Fixed Marginals through Sequential Importance Sampling.
o The R software package ergm: A Package to Fit, Simulate and Diagnose Exponential-Family Models for Networks.
o The R software package glmc: Fitting Generalized Linear Models Subject to Constraints.
Working Papers
Some recent papers:
CSSS Working Paper no. 66(117M bytes) [PDF(353K bytes )]
“Model-based Assessment of the Impact of Missing Data on Inference for Networks”
Krista J. Gile and Mark S. Handcock
November 2006.
CSSS Working Paper no. 51(1.3M bytes) [PDF(353K bytes )]
“Alleviating Linear Ecological Bias and Optimal Design with Subsample Data”
Adam Glynn, Jon Wakefield, Mark S. Handcock , and Thomas Richardson
September 2005.
CSSS Working Paper no. 48(1.0M bytes) [PDF(119K bytes )]
“Generalised Linear Models Incorporating Population Level Information: An Empirical Likelihood Based Approach”
Sanjay Chaudhuri, Mark S. Handcock and Michael S. Rendall
May 2005.
CSSS Working Paper no. 47(2.0M bytes) [PDF(180K bytes )]
“Goodness of Fit of Social Network Models”
David R. Hunter, Mark S. Handcock and Steven M. Goodreau
April 2005.
CSSS Working Paper no. 46(1.5M bytes) [PDF(341K bytes )]
“Model-Based Clustering for Social Networks”
Mark S. Handcock , Adrian E. Raftery and Jeremy Tantrum
April 2005.
CSSS Working Paper no. 44(960K bytes) [PDF(181K bytes )]
“Interval Estimates for Epidemic Thresholds in Two-Sex Network Models”
Mark S. Handcock and James Holland Jones
CSSS Working Paper no. 43(6.1M bytes) [PDF(238K bytes )]
“Inference in curved exponential family models for networks”
David R. Hunter and Mark S. Handcock
CSSS Working Paper no. 42( 12M bytes) [PDF(544K bytes )]
“New specifications for exponential random graph models”
Tom A.B. Snijders, Philippa E. Pattison, Garry L. Robbins and Mark S. Handcock
CSSS Working Paper no. 41(1.9M bytes) [PDF(510K bytes )]
“Positional Estimation within the Latent Space Model for Networks”
Susan Shortreed and Mark S. Handcock
CSSS Working Paper no. 39( 17M bytes) [PDF(854K bytes )]
“Assessing Degeneracy in Statistical Models of Social Networks”
CSSS Working Paper no. 36(1.5M bytes) [PDF(360K bytes )]
“Improved regression estimation of a multivariate relationship with population data on the bivariate relationship”
Mark S. Handcock , Michael S. Rendall, and Jacob E. Cheadle
CSSS Working Paper no. 31 [PDF( 193k bytes )]
“On 'Sexual contacts and epidemic thresholds,' models and inference for Sexual partnership distributions”
Mark S. Handcock , James Holland Jones and Martina Morris
CSSS Working Paper no. 29 [PDF( 221k bytes )]
“Likelihood-Based Inference for Stochastic Models of Sexual Network Formation”
Mark S. Handcock and James Holland Jones
CSSS Working Paper no. 27 [PDF( 326k bytes )]
“Applying Relative Distribution Methods in R”
Mark S. Handcock and Eric M. Aldrich
CSSS Working Paper no. 23 [PDF( 148k bytes )]
“An Assessment of Preferential Attachment as a Mechanism for Human Sexual Network Formation”
James Holland Jones and Mark S. Handcock
CSSS Working Paper no. 21 [PDF( 108k bytes )]
“Statistical Evidence Tells Tails of Human Sexual Contacts”
James Holland Jones and Mark S. Handcock
Other current on-line technical reports.
Representative Research Grants and Awards PI or co-PI only
o
The National Science Foundation
“Statistical Methods for Respondent Driven Sampling Data”
Sep 1, 2009 to Aug 31, 2011, $269,318.
o
The Office of Navel Research
“MURI:
Scalable Methods for the Analysis of Networks-Based Data”
(with Padhraic Smyth, et al),
May 8, 2008 to May 7, 2013, $5,381,300 UW subcontract $600,000.
o
National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development
“Immigration, Emigration, and Age-by-Country Structure of Mexican Cohort
Lifetimes”
(with M. Rendall), August 2007 -- July 2009, subcontract $64,000.
o
National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development
“Combining Survey and Population Data on Births and Family”
(with M. Rendall), June 2003 -- May 2007, $1,095,133.
o
National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development
“Modeling HIV and STDs in Drug User and Sexual Networks,”
(with M. Morris), July 2001 -- June 2006, $2,237,939.
o
The National Science Foundation and
“Statistical Methods for Ecological Assessment of Riverine Systems by
Combining Information from Multiple Sources,”
January 2001 - December 2003, $205,344.
o
National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development
“Quantifying HIV Transmission Risk in Sex/Drug Networks,” (with M.
Morris), March 2002 - February 2007, $750,000.
o
The National Science Foundation
“Modeling the Interactions between Real Estate Development, Land Cover
Change, and Bird Diversity,” (with Marina Alberti,
Paul Waddell, and John Marzluff), September 1, 2001 to February 28, 2005,
$1,128,818.
o
The National Science Foundation
“Hybrid Population-average and Individual-specific Models for Clustered
Longitudinal Data,” (with M. Scott), July 2000 - June 2002, $132,000.
o
The National Science Foundation
“Nonparametric Models for Incomplete Clustered Data with Applications to
the Social Sciences,” (with M. J. Akritas, and
July 2000 - June 2002, $88,024.