Clifford Clogg Memorial Lecture Series
Launched in 1999 in honor of Clifford C. Clogg, PRI Associate and Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Professor of Statistics at The Pennsylvania State University, and jointly sponsored by the Department of Sociology, the Department of Statistics, and PRI, the Clifford Clogg Memorial Lecture Series brings distinguished lecturers in statistics to speak at Penn State. Past lecturers have included:
| 1996 | Leo Goodman, University of California - Berkeley | "The Empirical Study of Latent Types, Latent Variables, and Latent Structures: An Introduction for the Untutored and Some Surprising New Results for the Enlightened" |
| 1997 | Donald Rubin, Harvard University | "A Template for the Analysis of Social Science 'Encouragement' Experiments with Application to the Milwaukee School Choice Study" |
| 1998 | Alan Agresti, University of Florida | "A Twentieth Century Tour of Categorical Data Analysis" |
| 1999 | Adrian E. Raftery, University of Washington | "Statistical Inference for Deterministic Simulation Models: The Bayesian Modeling Approach" |
| 2001 | Christopher Winship, Harvard University | "Does Going to School Make You Smarter? The Estimation of Causal Effects with Longitudinal Data" |
| 2002 | Gary King, Penn State | "Did Illegally Counted Overseas Absentee Ballots Decide the 2000 U.S. Presidental Election?" |
| 2003 | Stephen Raudenbush, University of Michigan | "Assessing Neighborhoods: How Do We Do It and What Have We Learned?" |
| 2004 | Thomas Dixon Cook, Northwestern University | "Toward a Practical Theory for Generalizing Causal Knowledge" |
| 2005 | Susan Murphy, University of Michigan | "Meeting the Future in Managing Chronic Disorders: Individually Tailored Interventions" |
| 2007 | Yu Xie, University of Michigan | "The Three Principles in Social Science" |
The 2008 Clogg Lecture is scheduled for Monday, October 13. The lecturer is Stephen Fienberg, the Maurice Falk University Professor of Statistics and Social Science at Carnegie Mellon University.
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