This study builds on the CMTO project, an effort to expand low-income families’ access to opportunity neighborhoods through providing supportive services in partnership with housing authorities in Seattle and King […]
Research Project Type: Advanced Methodology
Methods and Applications for Massive One-mode and Bipartite Social Networks
This research project will advance methods of estimation and inference for large-scale network models. The modeling of network data has important applications in many areas, including sociology, economics, marketing, and […]
Causal mediation methods for studying mechanisms in mental health
In mental health research, it is important to understand the mechanisms underlying the effects of interventions, for example whether cognitive/behavioral factors mediate the effect of a treatment for youth with […]
Robust Methods for Polygenic Analysis
Modern genome-wide association studies have unequivocally demonstrated that complex traits are extremely polygenic, with each individual trait potentially involving thousands to tens of thousands of genetic variants. In this project, […]
Statistical Methods for Multilevel Multivariate Functional Studies
While imaging studies are widely used in clinical practice and research, the number of neuroimaging- based biomarkers is small. For example, in clinical trials of immunomodulatory therapies for MS, the […]