YING LU (Princeton University, Ph.D. 2005) is an assistant professor at the Departments of Sociology and Political Science at University of Colorado at Boulder. She is also a faculty affiliate at the Institute of Behavioral Science, and serves as the director of the Social Science Data Laboratory at UCB. Her primary research interest is quantitative methodology in social sciences, with applications in health and mortality, political behaviors and ideology. She got her Ph.D. in Public Policy and Demography from Princeton University in 2005. Prior to joining CU faculty, she was an institute fellow at the Institute of Quantitative Social Sciences at Harvard University.

COURSES:
SOCY 5061/PSCI 7108: Advance Data Analysis--Causal Inference for Social Science Research, Fall 2006.

SOCY 5021: Data Analysis--Applied Regression Analysis, Spring 2007.

PSCI 2074: Quantitative Research Method, Fall 2007.

SOCY 7111/PSCI 7108: Advance Data Analysis--Generalized Linear Models, Fall 2007.

PSCI 2074: Quantitative Research Methods, Spring 2008

King, Gary and Ying Lu. 2008. "Verbal Autopsy Methods with Multiple Causes of Death", Statistical Science, 14(1).

King, Gary and Ying Lu. 2007. "Designing Verbal Autopsy Analyses". WHO technical report.

Imai, Kosuke, Ying Lu and Aaron Strauss. forthcoming. "eco: R Package for Ecological Inference in 2×2 Tables", Journal of Statistical Software.

Imai, Kosuke, Ying Lu and Aaron Strauss. 2008 "Bayesian and Likelihood Inference for 2×2 Ecological Tables: An Incomplete Data Approach", Political Analysis.