Anders Skrondal

Anders Skrondal is a Senior Scientist at the Division of Epidemiology, Anders Skrondal started his career as a Research Fellow in the Department of Economics and as a Researcher in the Department of Biostatistics, both at the University of Oslo. His Doctor Philos thesis in Statistics was awarded the 1997 Psychometric Society Dissertation Prize, judged on "the level of originality in the ideas and techniques, the possible applications and their treatment, and potential impact". He was subsequently awarded a personal Postdoctoral Fellowship from The Research Council of Norway which was spent at the University of London and the University of Manchester. After returning to Norway in 2001, Skrondal became a Senior Researcher and subsequently Head of the Biostatistics Group at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. In 2005 he took up a position as Professor of Statistics in the Department of Statistics at the London School of Economics (LSE) and was subsequently appointed as Director of the LSE Methodology Institute. After spending almost four years at the LSE, Skrondal returned to the Norwegian Institute of Public Health where he is currently a Senior Scientist. He recently served as Adjunct Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo.
      
A major part of Skrondal's statistical work has been related to the development of the Generalized Linear Latent and Mixed Model (GLLAMM) framework which unifies and generalizes latent variable modeling and multilevel modeling. Output include papers published in statistical, biostatistical, psychometric and econometric journals as well as several bestselling books. Skrondal also collaborates with researchers in medicine, psychology, and the social sciences, and was recently instrumental in publishing a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine. In total, he has published papers in more than 50 different peer-reviewed journals and 12 books. His h-index is 47 in Google Scholar, meaning that his 47 most-cited publications have each been cited at least 47 times.The gllamm software for fitting GLLAMMs has been used in articles in more than 750 different journals. Skrondal is regularly giving workshops and keynote lectures on his research worldwide.

Anders Skrondal has been elected as President of the Psychometric Society for 2016-2017. He is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, and formerly a co-editor of Statistical Methods in Medical Research and the Chapman & Hall/CRC book series Statistics in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Skrondal has been an Honorary Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), an elected member of the Research Section Committee of the Royal Statistical Society (selecting papers to be read for the Society), the Board of Trustees of the Psychometric Society and the editorial council of Psychometrika. Skrondal has served on scientific committees for international conferences, taken part in expert panels evaluating academic institutions, served as member of international scientific advisory boards, and reviewed research proposals and/or research programs for various funding bodies worldwide.

Publications

SELECTED BOOKS:

Multilevel and Longitudinal Modeling Using Stata -- Volume II: Categorical responses, counts, and survival (3rd Edition). College Station, TX: Stata Press, 2012. ISBN-10:1-59718-104-8, ISBN-13:978-1-59718-104-4. [pp. xxiv+473]. (S.Rabe-Hesketh and A.Skrondal).

Multilevel and Longitudinal Modeling Using Stata -- Volume I: Continuous Responses (3rd Edition). College Station, TX: Stata Press, 2012. ISBN-10:1-59718-103-X, ISBN-13:978-1-59718-103-7. [pp. xxviii+497]. (S.Rabe-Hesketh and A.Skrondal).

Generalized Latent Variable Modeling: Multilevel, Longitudinal and Structural Equation Models [Chinese translation]. Chongqing: Chongqing University Press, 2011. ISBN:9787562453932. [pp. 368]. (A.Skrondal and S.Rabe-Hesketh).

The Cambridge Dictionary of Statistics (4th Edition). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010. ISBN-10:0521766990, ISBN-13:9780521766999. Kindle edition ASIN: B004EYSXA2. [pp. x+468]. (B.S.Everitt and A.Skrondal).

Multilevel Modelling (Vol. IV) -- Complex Models and Issues. London: Sage, 2010. ISBN:978-1-84787-273-9. [pp. xii+397].(A.Skrondal and S.Rabe-Hesketh, Eds.).

Multilevel Modelling  (Vol. III) -- Multilevel Generalized Linear Models. London: Sage, 2010. ISBN:978-1-84787-273-9. [pp. x+357]. (A.Skrondal and S.Rabe-Hesketh, Eds.).

Multilevel Modelling (Vol. II) -- Linear Multilevel Models: Inference, Diagnostics and Design. London: Sage, 2010. ISBN:978-1-84787-273-9. [pp. xii+399]. (A.Skrondal and S.Rabe-Hesketh, Eds.).

Multilevel Modelling (Vol. I) -- Linear Multilevel Models: Model Formulation. London: Sage, 2010. ISBN:978-1-84787-273-9. [pp. xxx+415]. (A.Skrondal and S.Rabe-Hesketh, Eds.).

Generalized Latent Variable Modeling: Multilevel, Longitudinal and Structural Equation Models. Boca Raton, FL: Chapman \& Hall/ CRC Press, 2004. ISBN:1-58488-000-7. Kindle edition ASIN:B000Q7ZN0O. [pp. viii+508]. (A.Skrondal and S.Rabe-Hesketh).
 

SELECTED PAPERS AND CHAPTERS:

Generalized linear latent and mixed modeling. In W.J. van der Linden (ed.): Handbook of Item Response Theory: Models, Statistical Tools, and Applications (Vol. I). Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2016. (S.Rabe-Hesketh and A.Skrondal).

A competing risk approach to "biologic" interaction. Lifetime Data Analysis, 21, 300-314, 2015. (P. Kragh Andersen and A.Skrondal).

Protective estimation of mixed-effects logistic regression when data are not missing at random. Biometrika, 101, 175-188, 2014. (A.Skrondal and S.Rabe-Hesketh).

Handling correlations between covariates and random slopes in multilevel models. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 39, 524-549, 2014. (M.Bates, K.Castellano, S.Rabe-Hesketh and A.Skrondal).

Composition, context, and endogeneity in school and teacher comparisons. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 39, 333-367, 2014. (K.Castellano, S.Rabe-Hesketh and A.Skrondal).

Much ado about interactions. Epidemiology, 25, 723-726, 2014. (A.Skrondal).

Handling initial conditions and endogenous covariates in dynamic/transition models for binary data with unobserved heterogeneity. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C, 63, 211-237, 2014. (A.Skrondal and S.Rabe-Hesketh).

Risk of fetal death after pandemic influenza virus infection or vaccination. New England Journal of Medicine, 368, 333-340, 2013. (S.E.Haberg, L.Trogstad, N.Gunnes, A.Wilcox, H.K.Gjessing, S.O.Samuelsen, A.Skrondal, I.Cappelen, A.Engeland, P.Aavitsland, S.Madsen, I.Buajordet, K.Furu, P.Nafstad, S.E.Vollset, B.Feiring, H.Nokleby, P.Magnus and C.Stoltenberg).

Avoiding biased versions of Wooldridge's simple solution to the initial conditions problem. Economics Letters, 120, 346-349, 2013. (S.Rabe-Hesketh and A.Skrondal).

Improved regression calibration. Psychometrika, 77, 649-669, 2012. (A.Skrondal and J.Kuha).

Multilevel structural equation modeling. Pages 512--531 in R. H. Hoyle (ed.): Handbook of Structural Equation Modeling. New York: Guilford, 2012.
(S.Rabe-Hesketh, A.Skrondal and X.Zheng)

Prediction in multilevel generalized linear models. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 172, 659-687, 2009. (A.Skrondal and S.Rabe-Hesketh).

Generalized linear mixed effects models. Pages 79--106 in G. Fitzmaurice, M. Davidian, G. Verbeke and G. Molenberghs (eds.) Longitudinal Data Analysis.
Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2009. (S.Rabe-Hesketh and A.Skrondal).

Biometrical modeling of twin and family data using standard mixed model software. Biometrics, 64, 280-288, 2008. (S.Rabe-Hesketh, A.Skrondal and H.K.Gjessing).

Multilevel and related models for longitudinal data. Pages 275--299 in J. deLeuuw and E. Meijer (eds.)Handbook of Multilevel Analysis. New York: Springer, 2008. (A.Skrondal and S.Rabe-Hesketh).

Structural equation models. Pages 432--455 in J. M. Box-Steffensmeier,  H. Brady, and D. Collier (eds.): Oxford Handbook on Political Methodology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. (K. Bollen, S.Rabe-Hesketh and A.Skrondal)

Multilevel and latent variable modelling with composite links and exploded likelihoods. Psychometrika, 72, 123-140, 2007. (S.Rabe-Hesketh and A.Skrondal).

Latent variable modelling: A survey. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 34, 712-745, 2007. (A.Skrondal and S.Rabe-Hesketh).

Stratified case-cohort analysis of general cohort sampling designs. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 34, 103-119, 2007. (S.O.Samuelsen, H.Aanestad and A.Skrondal).

Redundant overdispersion parameters in multilevel models for categorical responses. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 32, 419-430, 2007. (A.Skrondal and S.Rabe-Hesketh).

Multilevel structural equation modeling. Pages 209--227 in S.-Y.Lee (ed.) Handbook of Latent Variable and Related Models. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2007. (S.Rabe-Hesketh, A.Skrondal and X.Zheng).

Multilevel modelling of complex survey data. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 116, 805-827, 2006. (S.Rabe-Hesketh and A.Skrondal).

Likelihood ratio tests in behavioral genetics: Problems and solutions. Behavior Genetics, 36, 331-340, 2006. (A.Dominicus, A.Skrondal, H.K.Gjessing, N.Pedersen and J.Palmgren).

Maximum likelihood estimation of limited and discrete dependent variable models with nested random effects. Journal of Econometrics, 128: 301-323, 2005 (S.Rabe-Hesketh, A.Skrondal and A.Pickles).

A simple correction for ties when censoring times depend on covariates. Statistics in Medicine, 24: 3111-3121, 2005 (S.O.Samuelsen, T.F.Wisloff and A.Skrondal).

Generalized multilevel structural equation modelling. Psychometrika, 69: 183-206, 2004.  (S.Rabe-Hesketh, A.Skrondal and A.Pickles).

GLLAMM Manual (Second Edition). U.C. Berkeley Division of Biostatistics Working Paper Series -- Working Paper 160.
Berkeley: University of California, 2004. (S.Rabe-Hesketh, A.Skrondal and A.Pickles).

Multilevel logistic regression for polytomous data and rankings. Psychometrika, 68: 267-287, 2003. (A.Skrondal \& S.Rabe-Hesketh).

Interaction as departure from additivity in case-control studies: A cautionary note. American Journal of Epidemiology, 158: 251-258, 2003. (A.Skrondal).

Correcting for covariate measurement error in logistic regression using nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation. Statistical Modelling, 3: 215-232, 2003.
(S.Rabe-Hesketh, A.Pickles and A.Skrondal).

Reliable estimation of generalized linear mixed models using adaptive quadrature. Stata Journal, 2: 1-21, 2002. (S.Rabe-Hesketh, A.Skrondal and A.Pickles).

Regression among factor scores. Psychometrika, 66: 563-575, 2001. (A.Skrondal and P.Laake).

Parametrization of multivariate random effects models for categorical data. Biometrics, 57: 1256-1264, 2001. (S.Rabe-Hesketh and A.Skrondal).

Design and analysis of Monte Carlo experiments: Attacking the conventional wisdom. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 35: 137-167, 2000.  (A.Skrondal).

Degree(s)

Ph.D., University of Oslo: Statistics

M.A, University of Oslo: Political Science

B.A., University of Oslo: Social Science (Statistics, Econ., Pol.Sci.)

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