Projects
- Socioeconomic clustering of California ZCTAs to inform heat-risk thresholds within the CalHeatScore framework (Summer 2026)
- Evaluating Large Language Model-Generated Behavioral Patterns for Epidemiological Modeling: A Case Study Among People Who Inject Drugs (ongoing)
- Comparative Policy Analysis for Union Negotiations: Tuition Waiver Structures (Fall 2025)
Academic Activities
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Directed Reading Program (Spring 2026)
The Importance of Model Specification in Statistical ConclusionsThis presentation explains how model specification (our choice of variables and model) can lead to different conclusions from the same data. This is related to concepts such as identifiability, the bias–variance tradeoff, and the distinction between prediction and inference.