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Christopher Winship is Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. Since 2005 he has also held the positions of Director of Graduate Studies in Sociology and Professor at the Kennedy School of Government. He served as Chair of the Sociology Department from 1998-2001. Prior to coming to Harvard in 1992, he was Professor of Sociology, Statistics, and Economics at Northwestern University.

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTSQuantitative Methodology and Statistics; Sociology of Work, Occupations, and Labor Markets;Economic Sociology; Stratification; Life Course

Paul D. Allison, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania where he teaches graduate courses in methods and statistics. He is also the founder and president of Statistical Horizons LLC which offers short courses on a wide variety of statistical topics.

Tim Liao is Professor of Sociology & Statistics. His research interests include historical/comparative sociology, demography, and methodology. He is a former Deputy Editor of The Sociological Quarterly, (1992-2000) and the current Editor of Sage’s Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences series. He served on the council of the ASA Methodology Section (1998-2001) and on the council of the North America Chinese Sociological Association (2000-2002).

Chan Dayton is a Professor Emeritus and past Chair in the Department of Measurement & Statistics. For more than 20 years, he has pursued a research interest in latent class analysis which is a specialized field within the realm of discrete mixture models. In 1999, he published a Sage book dealing with latent class scaling models. Recently, he has focused on model comparison procedures with a special interest in approaches based on information theory and Bayes factors.