Staff Bios

Louis T. Mariano

Statistician

Washington Office

Education

Ph.D., Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University, 2002.

Fields

Cross-classified models; Latent variable models; Bayesian hierarchical models; Markov Chain Monte Carlo techniques; statistical applications to mental measurement; Bayesian model selection; survey sampling, with emphasis on non-ignorable missing data.

Policy Areas

Education: student assessment, teacher and school accountability, education reform.
Health: mental health measurement, public health preparedness, patient confidentiality.
Military: homeland security.

Recent Projects

Improved Value-Added Models for Teacher Accountability
Qatar K-12 School Reform
Mode Effect and Adjustment in Mental Health Services

Selected Publications

The Effect of Intensity of Effort to Reach Survey Respondents: A Toronto Smoking Survey - 2001

Survey Methodology, Vol. 27, pp. 131–142, 2001
Mariano, Louis T. and Kadane, Joseph B.

The Hierarchical Rater Model for Rated Test Items and its Application to Large Scale Educational Assessment Data - 2002

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, Vol. 27, pp. 341–384, 2002
Patz, Richard J., Junker, Brian W., Johnson, Matthew S. and Mariano, Louis T.

Syndromic Surveillance: Is it Worth the Effort? - 2004

Chance, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 20–25, 2004
Stoto, Michael A., Schonlau, Matthias and Mariano, Louis T.

Summary of Selected Survey Results - 2003

In The Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction Fifth Annual Report to the President and Congress. Forging Americas New Normalcy: Securing Our Homeland, Protecting Our Liberty, RAND, December 15, 2003
L.M. Davis, L.T. Mariano, J. Pace, S.K. Cotton, and P. Steinberg

Assessing The Implementation Of Comprehensive School Reform Models - 2004

Georges Vernez, Rita Karam, Louis T. Mariano, Christine DeMartini

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