How is The Methodology Center different from a Statistics department?
We are different from most Statistics departments in several ways. First, we are interdisciplinary. Statistics has an important presence in the Center, but there are other disciplines too, such as Applied Mathematics, Biostatistics, Communication, Computing Science, Education, Epidemiology, Human Development, Pharmacy, and Psychology. If you look at our publication list, you will see that there is a lot of cross-disciplinary collaboration. We meet as a group nearly 30 times per year to discuss research, so even scientists who are not directly collaborating influence each other’s work. Second, our methodological work is always responsive to and directly informed by methodological problems faced by real “in the trenches” social, behavioral, and health scientists. As you can see by looking at our publication list, we frequently collaborate with these scientists on methodological and substantive research. Note that this applies even to more theoretical work done by Center scientists. Third
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