Sophia Rabe-Hesketh is a

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who works as a professor in the Department of Educational Statistics and Biostatistics at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant un ...

.Curriculum vitae
retrieved 2016-07-18. Her research involves the development of generalized linear mixed models of data that incorporate

latent variable In statistics, latent variables (from Latin: present participle of ''lateo'', “lie hidden”) are variables that can only be inferred indirectly through a mathematical model from other observable variables that can be directly observed or me ...

s to handle hidden data. Rabe-Hesketh earned a bachelor's degree in

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from

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in 1988. She completed her doctorate at King's College, also in theoretical physics, in 1992. Her dissertation concerned

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. After postdoctoral studies at the

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, she returned to King's College as a reader in statistics in the Department of Biostatistics and Computing, part of the Institute of Psychiatry there. She moved to Berkeley in 2003, with an additional part-time professorship at the

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from 2006 to 2012. She became president of the Psychometric Society in 2014. She is the author or co-author of multiple books, including ''The Analysis of Proximity Data'' (1997, with B. S. Everitt), ''Analyzing Medical Data using S-PLUS'' (2001, with B. S. Everitt), ''Generalized Latent Variable Modeling: Multilevel, Longitudinal and Structural Equation Models'' (2004, with A. Skrondal), ''A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using Stata'' (4th ed., 2006, with B. S. Everitt), and ''Multilevel and Longitudinal Modeling Using Stata'' (3rd ed., in two vols., with A. Skrondal). In 2014 she was elected as a

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of the

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"for groundbreaking contributions to the field of generalized linear latent and mixed models for analysis of complex data in medicine, education, and the social sciences; for development of computational software; and for service to the profession.". In 2015 she was elected to the National Academy of Education.

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