Teaching

Fall 2024 This course covers the fundamentals of descriptive and inferential techniques used in quantitative sociological research. Topics include (a) an introduction to probability, random variables, and statistical inference, (b) the linear regression...

Spring 2025 This course covers advanced descriptive and inferential techniques used in quantitative sociological research. Topics include statistical models for binary, count, ordinal, and multinomial data; bootstrapping methods; imputation methods; and...

Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 Examines current methodological scholarship in the social sciences with an eye to assessing its quality and potential for advancing quantitative methods. Recently published and unpublished work by local scholars examined.

Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 The Social Demography Workshop is a venue for graduate students and faculty to present research on a wide variety of topics such as family, gender, inequality, immigration, fertility, mortality, and the institutional arrangements...