Sophia Rabe-Hesketh

University of California, Berkeley

Professor

Sophia Rabe-Hesketh is a Professor of Educational Statistics and Biostatistics at the University of California, Berkeley. She was previously Professor of Social Statistics at the Institute of Education, University of London and Reader in Statistics at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London. She is an applied statistician in the areas of social statistics, biostatistics and psychometrics. Her research interests include missing data, multilevel modeling, longitudinal data analysis, and latent variable modeling. Sophia developed a general latent variable modeling framework (see GLLAMM below) and software to estimate the models. She is also involved in many collaborative projects in education, psychology, and medicine. Sophia's publications include 6 authored books, 136 peer-reviewed articles in over 70 different journals, and 14 book chapters. Her Google Scholar h-index is 80, meaning that her 80 most-cited papers have each been cited at least 80 times. For full lists of publications and citations, see: ResearcherID and Google Scholar. She served as President of the Psychometric Society in 2014-2015 and is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association and an elected Member of the International Statistical Institute. Sophia is a former co-editor of Statistical Methods in Medical Research and of the Chapman & Hall/CRC book series Statistics in the Social and Behavioral Sciences and currently served as on the technical advisory committees for the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) from 2007 to 2016 and for the U.S. National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) from 2006 to present.