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Mark S. Handcock

Distinguished Professor of Statistics

Department of Statistics and Data Science

University of California, Los Angeles

Research Interests

I am a statistician whose research involves methodological development, and is based largely on motivation from questions in the social sciences, social epidemiology and environmetrics.

My recent work is on statistical models for social networks, network inference, the development of statistical methodology for the collection and analysis of social network data, surveying of hard-to-reach populations, spatial processes and demography.

Interests

• Statistics
• Demography
• Social Sciences
• Social Epidemiology
• Social Networks
• Environmetrics

Education

• PhD in Statistics, 1989

  University of Chicago

• BSc in Mathematics (First Class Honors), 1983

  University of Western Australia

Research

• Bibliography (with citation information)
• PubMed Central bibliography (NIH Public Access)
• eScholarship bibliography (UC Public Access)
• I am an affiliate faculty member of the California Center for Population Research at UCLA.
• I am an affiliate faculty member of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.

Recent talks

Practical Network Modeling via Tapered Exponential-family Random Graph Models

2025-05-05 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM University of California - Santa Cruz

Model-Based Clustering for Social Networks

2024-09-30 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM London, England

Some New Models for Social Networks

2023-11-27 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM ASNAC 2023

See all talks

Contact

• handcock@stat.ucla.edu
• UCLA, Department of Statistics and Data Science, 8125 Mathematical Sciences Building, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554
• Mathematical Sciences Building – Room 8105, Suite C