Research Interests:
Bayesian modeling and data analysis (decision theory, testing, model selection, elicited priors) addressed to questions in general social science quantitative methodology, American political behavior and institutions, focusing on Congress, the bureaucracy, and voters, using
computationally intensive tools.
Andrew Martin
Research Interests:
Political methodology, Bayesian statistics, American political institutions.
Robert Walker
Research Interests:
Models of measurement, path dependence and interdependent choice; international politics, international political economy and international human rights.
Carol Woods
Research Interests:
Categorical data analysis, especially involving latent variables; item response theory; methodological developments aimed at increasing the applicability of item response theory to items about psychopathology, personality, or attitudes.
Affiliated Faculty
Steven M. Fazzari
Research Interests:
Link between macroeconomic activity and finance, foundations of Keynesian macroeconomics.
Donald Nichols
Research Interests:
Health economics.
Robert Parks
Research Interests:
Econometrics and Public Finance.
Ramesh Raghavan
Research Interests:
Access to mental health services, quality of mental health care,, health insurance and managed care, childhood trama
Richard Smith
Research Interests:
Primate comparative and functional morphology, quantitative methods, biomechanics, Miocene hominids.
Edward Spitznagel
Research Interests:
Statistics and statistical computation, application of statistics to medicine.
Michael J. Strube
Research Interests:
Self-knowledge, self-esteem, and decision making, research design and measurement.
William F. Tate
Research Interests:
Human resource development in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education; urban studies.
Joseph S. Ullian
Research Interests:
Logic, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of language.
