Tracy Sweet

Affiliated Postdoctoral Fellow

Education

Ph.D., Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University, 2012

M.S., Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University, 2008

M.S., Mathematics, Morgan State University, 2007

B.S., Biology, Bucknell University, 2000

Affiliated Postdoc

Dr. Sweet was supported in her predoctoral work through the IES funded Program in Interdisciplinary Education Research (PIER). She continued as a postdoc, on an IES 305D grant that she wrote, working on multilevel social network models for education research. Although she was not funded by CMART, she was a full participant in the CMART program.

After CMART

Dr. Sweet was appointed in Fall 2013 as an Assistant Professor in the Measurement, Statistics and Evaluation program, Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, University of Maryland.

Specialties

Statistical methodology;

Program evaluation using multilevel models;

Multilevel modeling for ensembles of social networks

Recent/Ongoing Work

Sweet, T. M., Thomas, A. C., and Junker, B. W. (2013) Hierarchical network models for education research: hierarchical latent space models. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Research, 33, 295-318

Sweet, T. M., Thomas, A. C., and Junker, B. W. (2012). Hierarchical mixed membership stochastic block models for multiple networks and experimental interventions. Invited chapter in: Fienberg, S. E. & Bokalders, K. (eds.) Handbook on Mixed Membership Models, Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall/CRC. (to appear, 2013).

Sweet, T. M. & Junker, B. W. (2013). Power to detect intervention effects on ensembles of social networks. Submitted.

Contact Information

Measurement, Statistics and Evaluation Program
Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology
University of Maryland

tsweet@umd.edu