Weicong Lyu

Weicong Lyu is a Ph.D. student in the Quantitative Methods area within the Department of Educational Psychology at UW–Madison. He received his B.S. in Statistics, B.A. in Economics, and M.A. in Economics of Education from Peking University in China.

Lyu worked on causal inference methods for quantitative social science research, especially propensity score analysis. His areas of interest include Bayesian methods, graphical models and latent variable models. Besides educational measurement and statistics, he is also interested in econometric theory and statistical learning.