Statistics Department

Education

• Ph.D. Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles, 2016
• B.A. Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, 2011

Research Interests

• Samping methods
• Social network analysis
• Network sampling
• Respondent-driven sampling
• Social science applications of statistics

Selected Publications

• McLaughlin, K.R., Johnston, L.G., Gamble, L.J., Grigoryan, T., Papoyan, A., and Grigoryan, S. (2019), "Population size estimations among hidden populations using respondent-driven sampling surveys: Case studies from Armenia," JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 5(1):e12034. [link]
• McLaughlin, K. R. and EmBree, J. D. (2018), "Empirical Assessment of Programs to Promote Collaboration: A Network Model Approach," The Annals of Applied Statistics, 12(1):654-682. [link]
• Johnston, L. G., McLaughlin, K. R., Rouhani, S. A., and Bartels, S. A. (2017), "Measuring a hidden population: A novel technique to estimate the population size of women with sexual violence related pregnancies in South Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of Congo," Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health, 7(1):45-53. [link]
• Johnston, L. G., McLaughlin, K. R., El Rhilani, H., Latifi, A., Toufik, A., Bennani, A., Alami, K., Elomari, B., and Handcock, M. S. (2015), "A novel method for estimating the size of hidden populations using respondent-driven sampling data: Case examples from Morocco," Epidemiology, 26(6):846-852. [link]
• Sholtz, R.I., McLaughlin, K.R., Cirillo, P.M., Petreas, M., Park, J.S., Wolff, M.S., Factor-Litvak, P., Eskenazi, B., Krigbaum, N., and Cohn, B.A. (2011), "Assaying organochlorines in archived serum for a large, long-term cohort: Implications of combining assay results from multiple laboratories over time," Environment International, 37(4):709-714. [link]

Instructional and Departmental Activities

• ST 411/511 Methods of Data Analysis
• ST 431/531 Sampling Methods
• ST 518 Data Analytics II
• ST 553 Statistical Methods III: Experimental Design
• ST 407/507/509 Consulting Practicum

Professional Societies

• American Statistical Association (ASA)
• International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA)
• American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR)