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2008
Working Paper no. 87: (Reserved by Adrian Dobra ); June, 2008.
Working Paper no. 86(490K bytes): "A hierarchical eigenmodel for pooled covariance estimation"; Peter Hoff; March, 2008.
Working Paper no. 85(1.0M bytes): "Demographic Consequences of HIV Epidemics and Effects of Different Male Circumcision Intervention Designs: Suggestive Findings from Microsimulation"; Sam Clark , Jeffrey W. Eaton, Michelle M. Elmquist, Natalie R. Ottenweiller and Jenna K. Snavely; March, 2008.
Working Paper no. 84(403K bytes): "The mode oriented stochastic search (MOSS) algorithm for log-linear models with conjugate priors"; Adrian Dobra and Helene Massam; March, 2008
Working Paper no. 83(278K bytes): "The Generalized Shuttle Algorithm"; Adrian Dobra and Stephen E. Fienberg; February, 2008.
Working Paper no. 82(856K bytes): "Bayesian melding for estimating uncertainty in national HIV prevalence estimates"; Leontine Alkema, Adrian E. Raftery , and Tim Brown; February, 2008.
2007
Working Paper no. 81(3.4M bytes): "Modeling homophily and stochastic equivalence in symmetric relational data"; Peter Hoff; November, 2007.
Working Paper no. 80(207K bytes): "Unraveling the Fortunes of the Fortunate: An Iterative Bayesian Model Averaging (IBMA) Approach"; Theo Eicher , Chris Papageorgiou, and Oliver Roehn; October, 2007.
Working Paper no. 79(407K bytes): "In Search of a Sulphur Dioxide Environmental Kuznets Curve: A Bayesian Model Averaging Approach"; Jeffrey Begun and Theo Eicher; October, 2007.
Working Paper no. 78(173K bytes): "Trade Creation and Diversion Revisited: Accounting for Model Uncertainty and Natural Trading Partner Effects"; Theo Eicher , Christian Henn, and Chris Papageorgiou; October, 2007.
Working Paper no. 77(1.6M bytes): "Representing Degree Distributions, Clustering, and Homophily in Social Networks With Latent Cluster Random Effects Models"; Pavel Krivitsky, Mark S. Handcock , Adrian E. Raftery , and Peter Hoff; August, 2007.
Working Paper no. 76(408K bytes): "Determining Growth Determinants: Default Priors and Predictive Performance in Bayesian Model Averaging"; Theo Eicher , Chris Papageorgiou, and Adrian E. Raftery; August, 2007.
Working Paper no. 75(369K bytes): "Modeling Social Networks with Sampled or Missing Data"; Mark S. Handcock and Krista Gile; April, 2007.
Working Paper no. 74(486K bytes): "Comparison of Maximum Pseudo Likelihood and Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Exponential Family Random Graph Models"; Marijtje A.J. van Duijn, Krista Gile, and Mark S. Handcock; April, 2007.
Working Paper no. 73(485K bytes): "Split-Sample Score Tests in Linear Instrumental Variables Regression"; Saraswata Chaudhuri, Thomas Richardson , James Robins, and Eric Zivot; Revised version: June 2006.
Original version(485K bytes): March, 2007.
Working Paper no. 72(346K bytes): "The Yield Curve Through Time and Across Maturities"; Richard Startz and Kwok Ping Tsang; February, 2007.
Working Paper no. 70(287K bytes): "The Effect of Weather Forecast Uncertainty Visualization on Decision Making"; Limor Nadav-Greenberg, Susan L. Joslyn, and Meng U. Taing; January, 2007.
Working Paper no. 69(739K bytes): "Probabilistic Projections of HIV Prevalence Using Bayesian Melding"; Leontine Alkema, Adrian E. Raftery , and Sam Clark; January, 2007.
2006
Working Paper no. 68(202K bytes): "Kruskal-Wallis and Friedman type tests for nested effects in hierarchical designs"; Assaf P. Oron and Peter Hoff; December 2006.
Working Paper no. 67(101K bytes): "Interpreting Product-Variable Models of Interaction Effects"; Lowell Hargens; Revised version: February 2008.
Original version( 92K bytes): November 2006.
Working Paper no. 66(117K bytes): "Model-based Assessment of the Impact of Missing Data on Inference for Networks"; Krista Gile and Mark S. Handcock; November 2006.
Working Paper no. 65(502K bytes): "Marginal Set Likelihood for Semiparametric Copula Estimation"; Peter Hoff; October 2006.
Working Paper no. 64(742K bytes): "Sequential Importance Sampling for Bipartite Graphs With Applications to Likelihood-Based Inference"; Ryan Admiraal and Mark S. Handcock; August 2006.
Working Paper no. 63(459K bytes): "The Effect of Probabilistic Information on Threshold Forecasts"; Susan Joslyn, Karla Pak, David Jones, John Pyles, and Earl Hunt; July 2006.
Working Paper no. 62(474K bytes): "Strategies in Naturalistic Decision-Making: A Cognitive Task Analysis of Naval Weather Forecasting"; Susan Joslyn and David Jones; July 2006.
Working Paper no. 61(549K bytes): "Measuring the NAIRU with Reduced Uncertainty: A Multiple Indicator-Common Cycle Approach"; Arabinda Basistha and Richard Startz; June 2006.
Working Paper no. 60(2.0M bytes): "Estimating the Integrated Likelihood via Posterior Simulation Using the Harmonic Mean Identity"; Adrian E. Raftery , Michael A. Newton, Jaya M. Satagopan, and Pavel Krivitsky; Revised version: June 2006.
Original version(2.0M bytes): April 2006.
Working Paper no. 59(264K bytes): "Identification and Likelihood Inference for Recursive Linear Models with Correlated Errors"; Mathias Drton, Michael Eichler, and Thomas Richardson; March 2006.
Working Paper no. 58(244K bytes): "A Joint Econometric Model of Marriage and Partner Choice"; Elaina Rose; March 2006.
Working Paper no. 57(707K bytes): "Assessing Uncertainty in Urban Simulations Using Bayesian Melding"; Hana Sevcikova, Adrian E. Raftery , and Paul Waddell; February 2006.
Working Paper no. 56(244K bytes): "Binomial Autoregressive Moving Average Models with an Application to U.S. Recessions"; Richard Startz; February 2006.
Working Paper no. 55(450K bytes): "Everybody Out of the Pool! Reconstructing the Democratic Peace"; Michael D. Ward , Randolph M. Siverson, and Xun Cao; February 2006.
Working Paper no. 54(205K bytes): "Multiplicative latent factor models for description and prediction of social networks"; Peter Hoff; January 2006.
2005
Working Paper no. 53(1.6M bytes) [PDF(3.2M bytes )]: "Education and Hypergamy, and the 'Success Gap'"; Elaina Rose; October 2005.
Working Paper no. 52(1.6M bytes) [PDF(289K bytes )]: "Recidivism and Social Interactions"; Sibel Sirakaya; October 2005.
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.
Working Paper no. 50(480K bytes) [PDF(106K bytes )]: "Will the Market Bear Your Asking Price?"; Elena Erosheva; August 2005.
Working Paper no. 49(9.9M bytes) [PDF(1.3M bytes )]: "Spectral Clustering for Microsoft Netscan Data"; Anne Patrikainen and Marina Meila; July 2005.
Working Paper no. 48(1.0M bytes) [PDF(119K bytes )]: "Generalised Linear Models Incorporating Population Level Information: An Empirical Likelihood Based Approach"; Sanjay Chauduri, Mark S. Handcock and Michael S. Rendall; May 2005.
Working Paper no. 47(1.8M bytes) [PDF(164K bytes )]: "Goodness of Fit of Social Network Models"; David R. Hunter, Mark S. Handcock and Steven M. Goodreau; April 2005.
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.
Working Paper no. 45(9.6M bytes) [PDF(2.7M bytes )]: "Persistent Patterns of International Commerce"; Michael D. Ward and Peter Hoff; January 2005.
2004
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; August 2004.
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; August 2004.
Working Paper no. 42( 12M bytes) [PDF(544K bytes )]: "New specifications for exponential random graph models"; Tom A.B. Snijders, Phillippa E. Pattison, Garry L. Robbins and Mark S. Handcock; April 2004.
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; April 2004.
Working Paper no. 40(856K bytes) [PDF(144K bytes )]: "Bayesian Mixed Membership Models for Soft Classification"; Elena Erosheva and Stephen E. Fienberg; April 2004.
2003
Working Paper no. 39( 17M bytes) [PDF(854K bytes )]: "Assessing Degeneracy in Statistical Models of Social Networks"; Mark S. Handcock; December 2003.
Working Paper no. 38(1.4M bytes) [PDF(255K bytes )]: "Model-based Clustering with Dissimilarities: A Bayesian Approach"; Man-Suk Oh and Adrian E. Raftery; December 2003.
Working Paper no. 37(6.6M bytes) [PDF(2.7M bytes )]: "A Statistical View of Learning in the Centipede Game"; Anton Westveld and Peter Hoff; December 2003.
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; September 2003.
Working Paper no. 35(3.2M bytes) [PDF(7.4M bytes )]: "Modeling Dependencies in International Relations Networks"; Peter Hoff and Michael D. Ward; September 2003.
Working Paper no. 34(274K bytes) [PDF(316K bytes )]: "Long-Run Performance of Bayesian Model Averaging"; Adrian E. Raftery and Yingye Zheng; July 2003.
Working Paper no. 33( 32M bytes) [PDF(283K bytes )]: "Does Education Really Disadvantage Women in the Marriage Market?"; Elaina Rose; July 2003.
Working Paper no. 32(968K bytes) [PDF(338K bytes )]: "Bilinear Mixed Effects Models for Dyadic Data"; Peter Hoff; July 2003.
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; May 2003.
Working Paper no. 30 [PDF(424K bytes )]: "Hearing about a Job: A model of Differential Information Flow and Job Matching"; Katherine Stovel and Christine Fountain; April 2003.
Working Paper no. 29(938K bytes) [PDF(221K bytes )]: "Likelihood-Based Inference for Stochastic Models of Sexual Network Formation"; Mark S. Handcock and James Holland Jones; January 2003.
Working Paper no. 28(1.3M bytes) [PDF(2.2M bytes )]: "Random Effects Models for Network Data"; Peter Hoff; January 2003.
2002
Working Paper no. 27 [PDF(326K bytes )]: "Applying Relative Distribution Methods in R"; Mark S. Handcock and Eric M. Aldrich; December 2002.
Working Paper no. 26(1.3M bytes) [PDF(408K bytes )]: "Patterns of Supreme Court Decision-Making, 1937-2000"; Andrew D. Martin and Kevin Quinn; October 2002.
Working Paper no. 25(1.0M bytes) [PDF(345K bytes )]: "Assessing Preference Change on the U.S. Supreme Court"; Andrew D. Martin and Kevin Quinn; October 2002.
Working Paper no. 24(2.3M bytes) [PDF(647K bytes )]: "An Integrated Computational Model of Multiparty Electoral Competition"; Kevin Quinn and Andrew D. Martin; October 2002.
Working Paper no. 23(568K bytes) [PDF(148K bytes )]: "An Assessment of Preferential Attachment as a Mechanism for Human Sexual Network Formation"; James Holland Jones and Mark S. Handcock; October 2002.
Working Paper no. 22(1.1M bytes) [PDF(186K bytes )]: "Marriage and Assortative Mating: How Have the Patterns Changed?"; Elaina Rose; July 2002.
Working Paper no. 21 [PDF(108K bytes )]: "Statistical Evidence Tells Tails of Human Sexual Contacts"; James Holland Jones and Mark S. Handcock; May 2002.
Working Paper no. 20 (417K bytes ) [PDF(194K bytes )]: "On convergence of least-squares identifies for infinite AR models"; Andrey Barabanov and Yulia Gel; January 2002.
Working Paper no. 19 (125K bytes ) [PDF( 94K bytes )]: "Discussion of Paper by Peter McCullagh"; Julian Besag; January 2002.
2001
Working Paper no. 18 (298K bytes ) [PDF(223K bytes )]: "Choosing the Link Function and Accounting for Link Uncertainty in Generalized Linear Models using Bayes Factors"; Claudia Czado and Adrian E. Raftery; December 2001.
Working Paper no. 17 (1.5M bytes ) [PDF(504K bytes )]: "Latent Space Approaches to Social Network Analysis"; Peter Hoff , Adrian E. Raftery and Mark S. Handcock; November 2001.
Working Paper no. 16 (824K bytes ) [PDF(474K bytes )]: "Bayesian Learning about Ideal Points of U.S. Supreme Court Justices, 1953-1999"; Andrew D. Martin and Kevin Quinn; September 2001.
Working Paper no. 15 (701K bytes ) [PDF(319K bytes )]: "A Parametric Two-Sided Model of Marriage"; John Allen Logan, Peter Hoff and Michael A. Newton; June 2001.
Working Paper no. 14 (1.3M bytes ) [PDF(293K bytes )]: "Covariance Models for Latent Structure in Longitudinal Data"; Marc A. Scott (NYU) and Mark S. Handcock; April 2001.
Working Paper no. 13 (486K bytes ) [PDF(391K bytes )]: "Statistics in Sociology, 1950-2000: A Selective Review."; Adrian E. Raftery; Feburary 2001.
Working Paper no. 12 (2.2M bytes ) [PDF(950K bytes )]
Figure ( 14K bytes ) [PDF(3.2K bytes )]: "Ecological Inference for 2 x 2 Tables."; Jon Wakefield; January 2001.
2000
Working Paper no. 11 (1.5M bytes ) [ PDF (1.1M bytes )]: "Model Based Clustering, Discriminant Analysis and Density Estimation."; Chris Fraley and Adrian Raftery.; October 2000.
Working Paper no. 10 (1.6M bytes ) [ PDF (601K bytes )]: "Bayesian Multidimensional Scaling and Choice of Dimension."; Man-Suk Oh and Adrian Raftery.; September 2000.
Working Paper no. 9 (536K bytes ) [ PDF (384K bytes )]: "Markov Chain Monte Carlo for Statistical Inference"; Julian Besag; September 2000.; Updated February 2002.
Working Paper no. 8 (785K bytes ) [ PDF ( 55K bytes )]: "How to Measure 'What People Do For a Living' in Research on the Socioeconomic Correlates of Health"; John Robert Warren and Hsiang-Hui Kuo.; August 2000.
Working Paper no. 7 (1.5M bytes ) [ PDF ( 97K bytes )]: "Family Dynamics Through Childhood: A Sibling Model of Behavior Problems"; Lingxin Hao and Ross Matsueda; April 2000.
Working Paper no. 6 (257K bytes ) [ PDF (313K bytes )]: "Commerce and Democracy"; Mohan Penubarti and Michael D. Ward; Abstract; March 2000.
Working Paper no. 5 (566K bytes ) [ PDF (466K bytes )]: "Location, Location, Location: An MCMC Approach to Modeling Spatial Context with Categorical Variables in the Study and Prediction of War"; Michael D. Ward and Kristian Skrede Gleditsch.; Abstract; March 2000.
Working Paper no. 4 (532K bytes ) [ PDF (137K bytes )]: "Combining Registration-System and Survey Data to Estimate Birth Probabilities"; Mark S. Handcock , Sami M. Huovilainen and Michael S. Rendall.; Feburary 2000.
Working Paper no. 3 [ PDF ( 87K bytes )]: "How to Measure �What People Do For a Living� in Research on the Socioeconomic Correlates of Health."; John Robert Warren; Feburary 2000 - revised July 2000.
Working Paper no. 2 [ PDF (107K bytes )]: "Employment During High School: Consequences for Students' Grades in Academic Courses."; John Robert Warren , Mark S. Handcock and Robert D. Mare.; Feburary 2000.
1999
Working Paper no. 1 (344K bytes ) [ PDF (253K bytes )]: "Statistics in Sociology, 1950-2000: A Vignette."; Adrian E. Raftery; December 1999.

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