Creating Moves to Opportunity Using Mixed Methods to Understand Policy Mechanisms

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 […]


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 […]