Welcome

The Program for Social Science Statistics was initiated in 2002 by the Office of the Vice President for Research in conjunction with faculty in the social sciences and in
statistics. Its mission is to galvanize collaborative research between social scientists and statisticians and to develop and organize the graduate courses in statistics for social
science students.

The Program hosts a Distinguished Speaker Series that brings to campus experts from statistics, psychology, educational psychology, sociology, and political science to present their research and discuss issues of current interest to the field.

Participants in the initiative come from the Colleges of Liberal Arts, Science, Education and Human Development, and the Mays Business School.

The Program has generated several ongoing working groups of faculty with common interests. These include Structural Equation Modeling (see Dr. Victor Willson,
EPSY), Social Networks and Spatial Analysis (see Dr. Laura Koehly, Psychology), Longitudinal Analysis (see Dr. B. Dan Wood, Political Science) and Effect Size
Estimation and Research Synthesis (see Dr. Wendy Wood, Psychology).