Developing innovative research methods and tools.
The experts in NORC’s Methodology & Quantitative Social Sciences department design rigorous, efficient methods for gathering, evaluating, and analyzing data. We are innovators who work with data of all kinds and research emerging technologies.
We advise on study design, data collection, data quality assessment, advanced analytics, and dissemination. We are specialists in research and experimental design, recruitment and retention, instrument design and testing, evaluating measures, causal inference methods, machine learning, analysis of clustered data, spatial modeling, and data visualization.
Department Lead
Methodology & Quantitative Social Sciences Experts
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Leah Christian
Senior Vice PresidentDepartment Lead -
Susan Paddock
Executive Vice President & Chief Scientist -
Rupa Datta
Vice President & Distinguished Senior Fellow -
Ting Yan
Vice President -
René Bautista
Associate Director -
Ned English
Associate Director
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