Abstracts of talks given by the affiliate faculty of the CSSS

To submit an abstract, please send it in plain text via e-mail to the web master and copy your submission to Sibel Sirakaya. Be sure to include the calendar year of your abstract and the title of the talk. Together with the abstract, you may also consider sending the date of the talk, the name of the conference where the talk was presented, as well as links to working papers and other relevant information. If you send this additional information, it will be posted on the abstracts webpage.

2007

"Hierarchical Bayesian modeling of marijuana use trajectories in young adults and adolescents", Elena A. Erosheva, Donatello Telesca, Ross L. Matsueda, and Derek Kreager

"The Mode Oriented Stochastic Search for Log-linear Models with Conjugate Priors", Adrian Dobra

2005

"Self-Rated Health among Foreign- and Native-Born Individuals:A Test of Comparability", Elena Erosheva, Emily Walton and David Takeuchi.

"A simple model for complex networks with arbitrary degree distribution and clustering", Mark Handcock.

"Comparison (Relative) Distributions Approaches to Factorial Data", Mark Handcock.

2003

"Probabilistic Weather Forecasting Using Ensembles and Bayesian Model Averaging", Adian Raftery.

"A Statistical View of Learning in the Centipede Game", Anton Westveld and Peter Hoff.

"Open Problems in the Modeling of Social Networks", Mark S. Handcock.

"Linking Random Graph and Loglinear Models of Networks", Steve Goodreau and Martina Morris.

"A Markov Switching Model of Congressional Party Regimes", Bryan Jones and Dick Startz.

"Exploring Internal Structure of PNAS Publications: A Hierarchical Model for Text and References", Elena Erosheva, Stephen Fienberg, and John Lafferty.

"Long-Run Performance of Bayesian Model Averaging", Adrian E. Raftery and Yingye Zheng.

"Social Networks: A Statistical View", Mark S. Handcock.

"Degeneracy and Inference for Social Networks Models", Mark S. Handcock.

"Model-Based Clustering for Large Datasets Via Sampling", Adrian E. Raftery.

"Assessing the Effects of Measurement Error in Cross-National Social Research", Kevin Quinn, Michael Hechter and Eric Wibbels.

"Improved inference for the partially identified instrumental variables regression model", Eric Zivot.

"Political Interactions in Central Asia: A Latent Space Analysis", Mike Ward and Peter Hoff.

"Women, Education, and Marriage in the United States", Elaina Rose.

"Ecological Inference in Epidemiology", Jon Wakefield.

"Why is Simpson's paradox a paradox?", Thomas Richardson.

"Modeling Social Networks with Sampled or Missing Data", Mark Handcock.

"Exact goodness of fit tests with applications in the social sciences", Julian Besag.

2002

"The Impact of Labor Market Selectivity on the Gender Wage Gap", Becky Pettit and Jen Hook.

"Using Large Data Sets to Improve Validity of the Implicit Association Test - A Latency Based Cognitive Measure", Anthony Greenwald.

"Picturing Segregation: The Structure of Occupational Segregation by Sex, Race, Ethnicity, and Hispanicity", Lowell Hargens and Barbara Reskin.