We are a research group formed by faculty members, postdoctoral researchers, PhD students, and visitors of the Department of Statistics, London School of Economics and Political Science. We share research interests in modern psychometrics that involve statistical theory and methods for analysing multivariate data, computational algorithms for statistical inference and prediction, and their applications in social and behavioural sciences, such as educational testing, psychological measurement, political science, sociology, marketing, and biomedical science.
We are a lively research group that is actively looking to engage with new research projects and recruit PhD students who have a strong quantitative background and are interested in our topics and expertise (check our PhD website for more details). We are also interested in interdisciplinary collaborations and applying for grants. Feel free to get in touch with us.
A new book, "Analysis of Multivariate Social Science Data: Statistical Machine Learning Methods," co-authored by Prof. Irini Moustaki and Dr. Yunxiao Chen, will be out in February 2026. For more details about the book, please visit this link.
We welcome three new members joining the lab, Yuqing Xie (new phd student), Yuxuan Xu (new phd student), and Tongxin Zhang (new visiting phd student)!
Congratulations to our lab member Xinyi Liu for successfully defending her viva and receiving her phd degree. Congratulations, Dr. Liu!
Big congratulations to our group member Prof. Irini Moustaki for being elected as a fellow of the British Academy! See: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/irini-moustaki-fba/
Congratulations to our group member Xinyi Liu, who received the Travel Award of the IMPS 2024 conference at Prague, Czech Republic.
Congratulations to our group member Dr Yunxiao Chen for being elected as a member of the Editorial Council of the Psychometric Society. His term will begin after IMPS 2024 and extend to the end of IMPS 2030.
Congratulations to our group member Camilo Cardenas-Hurtado for successfully defending his thesis and becoming Dr. Cardenas-Hurtado!
Congratulations to our group member Motonori Oka, who received the Travel Award of the IMPS 2023 conference to be held at the University of Maryland, USA.
Congratulations to our aluminus, Dr. Haoran Zhang! From August 2023, Haoran will become an assistant professor at the Department of Statistics and Data Science at the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China.
Congratulations to our group member, Dr. Gabriel Wallin! From November 2023, Gabriel will become a lecturer in the Department of Statistics, at Lancaster University.
Congratulations to our alumnus, Dr. Giuseppe Alfonzetti. Giuseppe has successfully submitted his PhD thesis and now becomes a postdoctoral researcher in the Economics and Statistics Department at the University of Udine.
Congratulations to Dr Yunxiao Chen for receiving his tenure promotion! From August 2023, Yunxiao will become an associate professor at LSE.
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