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Jouni Kuha is a social statistician whose methodological research focuses on latent variable modeling and the analysis of survey data, as well as addressing issues related to measurement error and missing data. His work is motivated by substantive applications of statistics in the social sciences, and he collaborates with social scientists both at the London School of Economics and elsewhere on research projects that cover a range of topics. These projects include the role of education in social class mobility, public attitudes towards the police, estimating the prevalence of problem gambling, and intergenerational exchanges of family support. He has also been a member of the analysis team for broadcasters' exit polls in the five most recent UK General Elections. Prior to his appointment at LSE, Jouni was a postdoctoral researcher at Nuffield College, Oxford, and an Assistant Professor of Statistics at Pennsylvania State University. He completed his MSc in Social Statistics at the University of Helsinki in 1992 and obtained his PhD in Social Statistics from the University of Southampton in 1996. Jouni was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2021.
Department of Economics