Paul D. Allison, PhD Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, School of Arts and Sciences Department of Sociology 3718 Locust Walk Philadelphia, PA 19104-6299 Phone: 215-898-6717 Fax: 215-573-2081 E-mail: allison@sas.upenn.edu Website: http://www.ssc.upenn.edu/soc/index.html

Biography

Paul D. Allison is Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches graduate methods and statistics. He is widely recognized as an extraordinarily effective teacher of statistical methods who can reach students with highly diverse backgrounds and expertise. Allison is the author of Missing Data (Sage 2001), Logistic Regression Using the SASŪ System: Theory and Application (SAS Institute 1999), Multiple Regression: A Primer (Pine Forge 1999), Survival Analysis Using the SASŪ System: A Practical Guide (SAS Institute 1995), Event History Analysis (Sage 1984), and numerous articles on regression analysis, log-linear analysis, latent variable models, missing data and inequality measures. A former Guggenheim Fellow, he is also on the editorial board of Sociological Methods and Research. In 2001 he received the Paul Lazarsfeld Memorial Award for Distinguished Contributions to Sociological Methodology.

Research

• In Press Smith, Kenwyn K., David L. Eldridge, Dana S. Kaminstein, and Paul D. Allison. "Corporate health revisited: An update on illness and organizational dynamics. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 38(2).
• 2002 Keane, Anne, Arlene D. Houldin, Paul D. Allison, Christopher Jepson, Justine Shults, Isaac F. Nuamah, Ann Marie Walsh Brennan, Barbara J. Lowery and Ruth McCorkle. "Factors associated with distress over time in urban residential fire survivors." Journal of Nursing Scholarship.
• 2002 Allison, Paul D. and Richard Waterman. "Fixed Effects Negative Binomial Regression Models." Ross Stolzenberg (ed.), Sociological Methodology. Boston: Basil Blackwell.
• 2000 Allison, Paul D. "Multiple imputation for missing data: A cautionary tale." Sociological Methods and Research 28: 301-309.
• 1999 Allison, Paul D. "Comparing logit and probit coefficients across groups." Sociological Methods and Research 28: 186-208.
• 1999 Allison, Paul D. Logistic Regression Using the SAS System: Theory and Applications. Cary, N.C.: SAS Institute.
• 1999 Allison, Paul D. Multiple Regression: A Primer. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.

Courses

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