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Sophia Rabe-Hesketh Professor Policy, Organization, Measurement, and Evaluation Office: 4329 Tolman Hall Phone: 510-642-5287 Email: sophiarh at berkeley.edu Website: www.gllamm.org/sophia.html

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ophia Rabe-Hesketh is a statistician conducting methodological research in multilevel and latent variable modeling. She has developed a modeling framework called GLLAMM (Generalized Linear Latent and Mixed Modeling) and written a publicly available software package called gllamm (http://www.gllamm.org/) to estimate these models. The theory of these models is published in Generalized Latent Variable Modeling, co-authored with Anders Skrondal, and in papers published in Psychometrika, Journal of Econometrics, Biometrics, and Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, among others. Since 2002, the gllamm software has been used in over 370 peer-reviewed papers in over 270 different journals by researchers in education, sociology, political science, economics, medicine, and statistics.

Sophia Rabe-Hesketh is also a member of the Interdepartmental Group in Biostatistics and has a part-time position as Professor of Social Statistics at the Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of Education, University of London, UK. She is involved in several collaborative projects with researchers in education and psychiatry.

See ResearcherID for full list of journal articles and citation information at the ISI Web of Science (3,353 citations as of May 2009).

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Degrees

Ph.D., King's College, University of London, Theoretical Physics

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Professional Experience

2006-present:	Professor of Social Statistics (part-time), Institute of Education, University of London, UK
2003-present:	Professor of Educational Statistics, Graduate School of Education (Policy, Organization, Measurement and Evaluation) and Graduate Group in Biostatistics, University of California, Berkeley
2003-2003:	Reader in Statistics, Department of Biostatistics and Computing, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, University of London
1999-2003:	Senior Lecturer in Statistics, Department of Biostatistics and Computing, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, University of London
1994-1999:	Lecturer in Statistics, Department of Biostatistics and Computing, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, University of London
1992-1994:	Postdoctoral Research Fellow (SERC Fellowship), Department of Statistics, University of Leeds

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Courses and Professional Programs

• EDUC 275G: Hierarchical and Longitudinal Modeling (Fall 2005, Spring 2007, Fall 2009) Syllabus
• EDUC 293A: Data Analysis in Educational Research I (Fall every year)
• EDUC 275B: Data Analysis in Educational Research II (Spring every year)
• EDUC 275H: Research Group: Hierarchical and Longitudinal Modeling (Every semester)

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Publications

Books

Authored books

Rabe-Hesketh, S. and Skrondal, A. (2008). Multilevel and Longitudinal Modeling Using Stata (2nd Edition). College Station, TX: Stata Press.

Rabe-Hesketh, S. and Everitt, B. S. (2006) A Handbook of Statistical Analyses using Stata (Fourth Edition). Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall/CRC.
Datasets

Skrondal, A. and Rabe-Hesketh, S. (2004). Generalized Latent Variable Modeling: Multilevel, Longitudinal and Structural Equation Models. Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall/CRC.
Table of Contents
Datasets and do-files
Remarks and corrections

Everitt, B. S. and Rabe-Hesketh, S. (2001). Analyzing Medical Data using S-PLUS. New York: Springer.
Scripts and datasets

Everitt, B. S. and Rabe-Hesketh, S. (1997). The Analysis of Proximity Data. London: Arnold.

Edited books

Skrondal, A. and Rabe-Hesketh, S. (Eds.) (2009). Multilevel Modelling (Vol. I, II, III, IV) London: Sage, in press.

Articles (Refereed Journals, Proceeding)

Selected refereed journal articles since 2000 (out of 88 since 1994)

Skrondal, A. and Rabe-Hesketh, S. (2009). Prediction in multilevel generalized linear models. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 172, 659-687.

Rabe-Hesketh, S. and Skrondal, A. (2008). Classical latent variable models for medical research. Statistical Methods in Medical Research 17, 5-32.

Rabe-Hesketh, S. Skrondal, A. and Gjessing, H. K. (2008). Biometrical modeling of twin and family data using standard mixed model software. Biometrics 64, 280-288.

Skrondal, A. and Rabe-Hesketh, S. (2007). Latent variable modelling: A survey. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 34, 712-745.

Rabe-Hesketh, S. and Skrondal, A. (2007). Multilevel and latent variable modeling with composite links and exploded likelihoods. Psychometrika 72, 123-140.

Skrondal, A. and Rabe-Hesketh, S. (2007). Redundant overdispersion parameters in multilevel models for categorical responses. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics 32, 419-430.

Rabe-Hesketh, S. and Skrondal, A. (2006). Multilevel modeling of complex survey data. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A 169, 805-827.
Dataset and do-file

Rabe-Hesketh, S., Skrondal, A. and Pickles, A. (2005). Maximum likelihood estimation of limited and discrete dependent variable models with nested random effects. Journal of Econometrics 128, 301-323.

Rabe-Hesketh, S., Skrondal, A. and Pickles, A.(2004). Generalized multilevel structural equation modelling. Psychometrika 69, 167-190.

Landau, S., Rabe-Hesketh, S. and Everall, I. (2004). One-way analysis of variance of replicated bivariate spatial point patterns. Biometrical Journal 46, 19-34.

Skrondal, A. and Rabe-Hesketh, S. (2003). Multilevel logistic regression for polytomous data and rankings. Psychometrika 68, 267-287. ASCII data and Stata do-file

Rabe-Hesketh, S., Pickles, A. and Skrondal, A. (2003). Correcting for covariate measurement error in logistic regression using nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation. Statistical Modelling, 3, 215-232.

Patel, V., Chisholm, D., Rabe-Hesketh, S., Dias-Saxena, F., Andrew, G., Mann, A. (2003). The treatment of Common Mental Disorders in a Developing Country: A randomized controlled trial of the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of antidepressant and psychological treatments in general health care from Goa, India. The Lancet 361, 33-39.

Rabe-Hesketh, S., Skrondal, A. and Pickles, A.(2002). Reliable estimation of generalised linear mixed models using adaptive quadrature. The Stata Journal 2, 1-21.

Rabe-Hesketh, S. and Skrondal, A. (2001). Parameterization of multivariate random effects models for categorical data. Biometrics 57, 1256-1264.

Rabe-Hesketh, S., Yang, S. and Pickles, A. (2001). Multilevel models for censored and latent responses. Statistical Methods in Medical Research 10, 409-427.

Rabe-Hesketh, S., Toulopoulou, T. and Murray, R. (2001). Multilevel modeling of cognitive function in schizophrenic patients and their first degree relatives. Multivariate Behavioral Research 36, 279-298.

Wright, C. W., Rabe-Hesketh, S., Woodruff, P. W. R., David, A. S., Murray, R. M., Bullmore, E. T. Meta-Analysis of Regional Brain Volumes in Schizophrenia (2000). The American Journal of Psychiatry 157, 1-25.

Book Chapters

Rabe-Hesketh, S. and Skrondal, A. (2009). Generalized linear mixed models. In B. McGaw, E. Baker and P.P. Peterson (Eds.). International Encyclopedia of Education (Third edition). Oxford: Elsevier, to appear.

Rabe-Hesketh, S. and Skrondal, A. (2008). Generalized linear mixed effects models. In G. Fitzmaurice, M. Davidian, G. Verbeke and G. Molenberghs (eds.). Longitudinal Data Analysis. Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall/CRC, pp. 79-106.

Bollen, K., Rabe-Hesketh, S. and Skrondal, A. (2008). Structural equation models. In Box-Steffensmeier, J. M., Brady, H. and Collier, D. (eds.)Oxford Handbook on Political Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 432-455.

Skrondal, A. and Rabe-Hesketh, S. (2008). Models for longitudinal data. In de Leeuw, J. and Meijer, E. (eds.) Handbook of Multilevel Analysis. New York: Springer, pp. 277-301.

Rabe-Hesketh, S., Skrondal, A. and Zheng, X. (2007). Multilevel structural equation modeling. In Lee, S.-Y. (ed.) Handbook of Latent Variable and Related Models. Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 277-301.

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Presentations

Invited

At international conferences since 2000

Statistical Modelling and Inference Conference to celebrate Murray Aitkin's 70th birthday. Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, 2010.

XXVth International Biometric Conference, Santa Catarina, Brazil, 2010.

XXV International Methodology Symposium of Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 2009.

Mexican Stata Users Group Meeting, Mexico City, Mexico, 2009.

International Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Durham, NH, 2008.

XXIV International Biometric Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 2008.

XXIX International Congress of Psychology, Berlin, Germany, 2008.

Annual Meeting of the Norwegian Statistical Association, Tromsø, Norway, 2007

Winemiller 2006 Conference on Methodological Developments of Statistics in the Social Sciences. University of Missouri, Columbia, MS, 2006.

Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada, London, Ontario, 2006

MOLS 2006: Methodology of Longitudinal Surveys. University of Essex, Colchester, UK, 2006

Cutting Edge Developments in Multilevel Modelling, ESRC Research Methods Festival, Oxford, 2006.

14th International Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Tilburg, The Netherlands, 2005

Biennial Conference of the "Fachgruppe Methoden und Evaluation" of the German Psychological Society. University of Münster, Germany, 2005.

2005 ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium. Washington DC Metropolitan Area, USA, 2005

Annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, San Diego, California, 2004

13th International Meeting of the Psychometric Society. Pacific Grove (Monterey), California, 2004

19th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling. Florence, Italy, 2004

Third North American Users' Group Meeting. Boston, Massachusetts, 2004

Fourth International Amsterdam Conference on Multilevel Analysis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2003

International Biometric Society - Nordic Region Conference. Uppsala, Sweden, 2003

Dutch and German Stata User Group Meeting, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 2002

Third International Amsterdam Conference on Multilevel Analysis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2001

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Major Projects and Grants

2007-2011 Wilson, M. and Rabe-Hesketh, S. Berkeley Research Experience and Methodology (BREM) Program (Postdoctoral Fellowships). U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences.

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Honors and Awards

Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute

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Professional Activities

Professional and Government Committees

Member of the Scientific Programme Committee for the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics (ISCB) Annual meeting in 2010

Member of Standing Review Panel (grant proposals), Institute of Education Sciences, Statistics and Modeling

Member of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Design and Analysis Committee (DAC)

Member of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) Technical Advisory Group (TAG)

Elected member of Board of Trustees of the Psychometric Society

Editorial and Review Positions

• Editor of Statistical Methods in Medical Research
• Associate editor for Psychometrika
• Associate editor for Statistical Modelling
• Associate editor for The Stata Journal
• Member of editorial board of Structural Equation Modeling
• Member of editorial board of Psychological Methods
• Section editor for Encyclopedia of Statistics in Behavioral Science. New York: Wiley
• Guest editor for special issue of Statistical Methods in Medical Research on Medical Image Analysis 6 (3), 1997
• Book series editor for the Chapman & Hall/CRC series Statistics in the Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Reviewer for over 40 different journals

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Areas of Specialization / Interests

Assessment and Educational Measurement
Educational Statistics
Psychometrics
Quantitative Methods
Research Methods

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