Paul David Allison

Paul D. Allison, Ph.D., is President of Statistical Horizons LLC and Professor Emeritus of the University of Pennsylvania. You can visit his website at www.StatisticalHorizons.com. After completing doctoral work in sociology at the University of Wisconsin, he did postdoctoral study in statistics at the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania. He has published eight books and more than 75 articles on topics that include linear regression, log-linear analysis, logistic regression, measurement error, inequality measures, missing data, Markov processes, and survival analysis. Much of his earlier research was focused on career patterns of academic scientists. At present, his principal methodological research is focused on the analysis of longitudinal data, especially with determining the causes and consequences of events, and on methods for handling missing data. He frequently teaches public short courses on structural equation modeling, longitudinal data analysis, and missing data. A former Guggenheim Fellow, Allison received the 2001 Lazarsfeld Award for distinguished contributions to sociological methodology. In 2010, he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.