Weihua An, Emory University

Center for Social Data Analytics Lecture Series presents: Weihua An is Associate Professor of Sociology and Quantitative Theory and Methods and a faculty member of the East Asian Studies Program and Department of Behavioral, Social and Health Education Sciences at Emory University-"You Said, They Said: A Framework on Informant Accuracy with Application to Studying Self-Reports and Peer-Reports of Adolescent Smoking".

Dr. Weihua An is Associate Professor of Sociology and Quantitative Theory and Methods and a faculty member of the East Asian Studies Program and Department of Behavioral, Social and Health Education Sciences at Emory University. He received a Ph.D. in Sociology and an A.M. in Statistics from Harvard University and was a doctoral fellow and postdoc fellow at Harvard Kennedy School. His research advances theories and methods for network analysis and causal inference with applications to studying inequality and social policy, health, and organizations. His work has appeared in Social Forces, Social Networks, Social Science Research, Sociological Methodology, Sociological Methods and Research, Journal of Statistical Software, etc. He also authored several R packages, including "LARF" for instrumental variable estimations of causal effects via local average response functions
and "keyplayer" for locating key players in social networks. He co-edited "Social Networks and Social Psychology" for Social Psychology Quarterly and is editing "New Quantitative Approaches to Studying Social Inequality" for Sociological Methods and Research. He is a recipient of the Faculty Teaching Award from Emory Sociology and has advised 20 PhD students on their dissertations.