Weihua (Edward) An ,Sociology Department, Harvard University





	Weihua (Edward) An Graduate Student in Sociology Biographical Note Weihua is a PhD student in sociology, doctoral fellow in the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy at Kennedy School of Government and graduate associate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. He holds a master degree in statistics from Harvard (2009) and has strong interests in quantitative methods, especially causal inference, social network analysis, and Bayesian statistics. In sociological domains, he specializes in formal and statistical analysis of inequality and social policy, and sociology of health. Currently he is working on several projects, including development of Bayesian methods to incorporate uncertainties in propensity score estimation into causal inference, statistical methods to separate network effects (selection, influence and reflection) from neighborhood effects, socioeconomic determinants of friendship network centrality, decomposition of the rural-urban gap in social policy preferences, the psychological burden of spousal caregivers of cancer patients, etc. In leisure time, he likes playing basketball. Personal website 11/12/2009 Research Interests Quantitative Methods, Inequality & Social Policy, Sociology of Health	Contact 617-496-8769 (Phone) 617-496-5794 (FAX) 568 William James Hall 33 Kirkland Street Cambridge, MA 02138 Office Hours Tuesday 1PM - 3PM

Weihua (Edward) An