QUEST LEADERSHIP
Georgia State Board Members
The researchers represent diverse social science disciplines, including statistics, biostatistics, meta-analysis, and data science. The team focuses on research design, measurement and data analytic methods applied to transdisciplinary science.
Professor of Biostatistics and Associate Dean for Academic & Faculty Affairs
Affiliation:
Department of Population Health Sciences, School of Public Health
QUEST Role:
Co-Director; Board Co-Chair
Methodological Expertise:
- Finite Mixture Modeling and Latent Class Analysis
- Survival Analysis and Event History Modeling
- Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)
- Longitudinal Study Design and Data Analysis
Professor
Affiliations:
Department of Population Health Sciences, School of Public Health
Department of Educational Policy Studies, College of Education and Human Development
QUEST Role:
Co-Director; Board Co-Chair
Methodological Expertise:
- Meta-Analysis
- Missing Data
- Power analysis in meta-analysis
Associate Professor of Research, Measurement, and Statistics
Affiliation:
Department of Educational Policy Studies, College of Education and Human Development
QUEST Role:
Board Member
Methodological Expertise:
- Multilevel modeling
- Cross-classified random effects modeling
- Multiple membership random effects modeling
- Longitudinal analysis
- Computerized adaptive testing
- Item exposure control methods
- Stopping rules
- Monte Carlo simulations
Data Scientist
Affiliation: Fiscal Research Center and the Center for State and Local Finance, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
QUEST Role:
Board Member
Methodological Expertise:
- Panel regression analysis (including fixed effects, panel IV, and panel logit)
- Probability modeling (including logit, multinomial logit, ordered logit, nested logit, and conditional logit)
- Quasi-experimental methods (including propensity score matching, nearest neighbor matching, treatments effects estimation, and synthetic control method)
- Probabilistic record matching for the creation of big-data
- Regression discontinuity design
- Grammar of graphics for data visualization