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Shenyang Guo, PhD

Bio

Shenyang Guo, Ph.D., is the Frank J. Bruno Distinguished Professor of Social Work Research at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Guo’s research is focused in child welfare, child mental health services, welfare, and health care. He has expertise in applying advanced statistical models to solving social welfare problems and has taught graduate courses that address event history analysis, hierarchical linear modeling, growth curve modeling, propensity score analysis, and program evaluation.

Dr. Guo has also been the Director of Applied Statistical Working Group at UNC – Chapel Hill. He led the data analysis planning for the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW) longitudinal analysis and has developed analytic strategies that address issues of weighting, clustering, growth modeling, and propensity score analysis. Dr. Guo is on the editorial board of JSSWR and Social Service Review and a frequent guest reviewer for journals seeking a critique of advanced methodological analyses.

To access Dr. Guo’s Faculty Page, click here: Washington University in St. Louis, Brown School of Social Work.

 

 


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