Gregory R. Hancock
Professor and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher of Measurement, Statistics and Evaluation
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Gregory R. Hancock is Professor, Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, Director of the Measurement, Statistics, and Evaluation program in the Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, and Director of the Center for Integrated Latent Variable Research. He is also co-host of the popular quantitative methods podcast "Quantitude."
His research interests include latent variable methods such as structural equation modeling and latent growth models, statistical power, missing data, and reliability, with work appearing in such journals as Psychometrika, Multivariate Behavioral Research, Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, Psychological Methods, British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, and Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics. He also co-edited seven volumes, including the popular Reviewer's Guide to Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (2010; 2019).
He serves on the editorial board of a number of leading quantitative methods journals, and has taught more than 200 methodological workshops in the United States, Canada, and abroad. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, American Educational Research Association, Association for Psychological Science, and Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology. He received the 2011 Jacob Cohen Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching and Mentoring by the American Psychological Association.
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