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Professor Irini Moustaki FBA

Modelling educational and social sciences data using latent variable models and structural equation models; psychometrics, analysis of categorical data, methods for handling missing data in surveys, modelling heterogeneous populations, outlier detection, advanced estimation techniques, goodness-of-fit measures, contributions to comparative cross-national studies and epidemiological studies on rare diseases
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Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2025
Subjects
Economics
Sections
Sociology, Demography and Social Statistics
Website
https://www.lse.ac.uk/statistics/people/irini-moustaki

Summary

Irini Moustaki has been a professor of Statistics at the London School of Economics and Political Science since 2013. She received her bachelor’s degree in Statistics and Computer Science from the Athens University of Economics and Business and her PhD in Statistics at LSE in 1996.

Her main research interests are in developing advanced methodologies for complex and large-scale data, particularly in the social sciences, education and psychiatry.

She has co-authored two seminal books on latent variable models. She received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Social Sciences, Uppsala University, in 2014. She was an Honorary Professor in the Department of Psychological Studies at The Education University of Hong Kong from July 2015 to July 2018. She was the Executive Editor of the journal Psychometrika from November 2014 to December 2018 and the President of the Psychometric Society from July 2021 to July 2022.

She serves as a technical expert in some of the large-scale assessments run by the OECD and the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA).

Current post

London School of Economics and Political Science Professor in Social Statistics

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