Salon Series: Mark Handcock
DataX Salons are informal conversations for attendees to become acquainted with a diverse group of UCLA data science, social science, physical and life science, and humanities scholars working broadly across issues at the intersection of data and society.
When: Fri. April 21, 2023 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. PDT
About the speaker: Mark S. Handcock is Professor of Statistics in the Department of Statistics and Data Science. His research involves methodological development, and is based largely on motivation from questions in the social sciences, social epidemiology and environ metrics.
Recent work focuses on statistical models for social networks, the development of statistical methodology for the collection and analysis of social network data, surveying of hard-to-sample populations, spatial processes and demography. For details, see his web page http://faculty.ucla.edu/handcock.