PRIISM, the Center for Practice and Research at the Intersection of Information, Society, and Methodology, is an interdisciplinary center that builds capacity for researchers within academia and beyond to collect data, build inferential models and predictive algorithms, and communicate findings in impactful and socially responsible ways.
PRIISM Seminar Series
Watch the PRIISM seminar with Dr. Sanford Student who talks about how to apply moderated nonlinear factor analysis to causal inference in randomized controlled trials and distinguish genuine intervention effects from measurement bias.
Highlights
A new approach to measure unjustified disparities
Dr. Shroff and colleagues introduce "risk-adjusted regression," a three-step framework that measures unjustified disparities in human and algorithmic decisions.
Journal on Education in Emergencies Volume 11, Number 1 released
The Journal on Education in Emergencies (JEiE) Editor-in-Chief Dr. Burde and colleagues released a special issue on building effective, equitable, and ethical data and evidence systems to inform education policy and practice in crisis and conflict contexts.
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The PRIISM Team
Meet the faculty, researchers, students, and affiliates working at PRIISM
MS, Applied Statistics for Social Science Research
PRIISM is highly integrated with the academic program of Applied Statistics for Social Science Research. Learn advanced quantitative research techniques and apply them to critical policy issues across social, behavioral, and health sciences.
PhD, Statistics and Computational Social Science
PRIISM is highly integrated with the doctoral program of Statistics and Computational Social Science. Learn about statistical, computational, and social science theory and how the combination of these disciplines can be used to understand and address problems of social importance in public health, education, criminal justice, and other domains.
Fellowships
PRIISM Opportunity Fellowship
highly-selective fellowship is to support the growth and development of a promising student in their first year of the Applied Statistics for Social Science Research MS program.
PRIISM Social Impact Research Fellowship Program
Funded by the Moore Sloan Data Science Environment at NYU. This program is no longer active.
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