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CSDE Committees: Executive Committee Member

CSDE Research Areas:

• Demographic Measurements and Methods
• Environments and Populations
• Health of People and Populations
• Migration and Settlement

In the News:

• Adrian Raftery Estimates Steady Rates of Global Migration and High Rate of Return to Country of Birth (12/31/2018)
• Adrian Raftery Offers a Simpler Approach to Performing Probabilistic Population Projections (1/16/2018)
• Adrian Raftery Publishes Work on Probabilistic Population Projections (12/12/2016)
• Adrian Raftery’s Research Indicates that Global Temperatures Will Increase Beyond 2 Degrees Celsius This Century (8/1/2017)
• CSDE at PAA 2017 (4/18/2017)
• Ireland Awards Adrian Raftery St. Patrick’s Day Medal for Contributions to Statistics (3/27/2017)
• Liu and Raftery Publish New Findings about Education and Fertility Trends (3/30/2021)
• Population Research Discovery Seminar: How Does Big Data Contribute to Improved Demographic Knowledge? (11/11/2016)
• Spotlight on Neal Marquez, Fall 2018 Lightning Talks and Poster Session Winner (1/18/2019)
• Spring Course Announcement: Statistical Demography and Data Science (CSSS/STAT/SOC 563) (2/21/2020)
• Spring Course Announcement: Statistical Demography and Data Science (CSSS/STAT/SOC 563) (2/1/2021)
• Statistical Demography and Data Science (CS&SS/STAT/SOC 563) (2/18/2020)
• Statistical Demography Class Offered This Spring (11/9/2018)
• Students and Trainees Checkout the Demography or Population-related Courses for Next Quarter (3/15/2021)
• Training Spotlight: Connor Gilroy, Adrian Raftery, and Emilio Zagheni Lead Workshops at International Population Conference (11/14/2017)
• Training Spotlight: Jessica Godwin and Adrian Raftery Evaluate Projection Method for Life Expectancy in Nations with HIV/AIDS Epidemics (11/28/2017)
• UW Statistics Doctoral Student Daphne Liu and CSDE Affiliate Adrian Raftery Co-author Study on Girls’ Education, Family Planning and Fertility (9/15/2020)
• Irons and Raftery Publish New Findings On COVID-19 Prevalence in the United States (7/27/2021)
• Raftery and Co-Author Extend Probabilistic Population Forecasting in Recent Publication (11/5/2021)
• Raftery Delivers Fields Institute’s Keyfitz Lecture in Mathematics and the Social Sciences (2/4/2022)
• Raftery Recognized by PAA with the Mindel C. Sheps Award! (4/11/2022)
• New UN World Population Prospects Benefit from UW (Current and Past) Experts (8/5/2022)
• Raftery and Co-Authors Publish New Book on Model-Based Clustering! (5/8/2023)
• Yu, Ševčíková, Raftery, and Curran Publish Research on Probabilistic County-Level Population Projections (5/26/2023)

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Adrian E. Raftery is the Boeing International Professor of Statistics and Sociology and a faculty affiliate of the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences and the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology at the University of Washington. He works on the development of new statistical methods for the social, environmental and health sciences. An elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, he was identified as the world’s most cited researcher in mathematics for the decade 1995-2005 by Thomson-ISI. He has supervised 29 Ph.D. graduates, of whom 21 hold or have held tenure-track university faculty positions.

Visit this link to view Adrian Raferty’s sociology and demography publications.