Kazuo Yamaguchi

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY / PRC

Professor

1155 Bldg 349

773-256-6234

kyamagu@uchicago.edu

BioSketch C.V. Syllabi Papers Programs

Projects

Contemporary Families and Experiences of Work (Continuation)

Development of Specific Regression Models Involving Latent Classes in Social Research

Activities

Professor Yamaguchi is interested in statistical models for social data and mathematical models for social phenomena, the life course, rational choice, exchange networks, stratification and mobility, demography for family and employment, process of drug use progression. His current research focuses on models of exchange networks and women's occupational careers in Japanese society.

Publications and Presentations 2003-2004

Yamaguchi, K., and Y. Wang. 2003. Class Identification of Married Employed Women and Men in America. American Journal of Sociology, 198: 440-475.

Yamaguchi, Kazuo. 2003. “A Liang-Zeger Method For Dyadic Interdependence in the Analysis of Social Networks."　In R.M. Stolzenberg (ed.), Sociological Methodology 2003. Vol. 33:343-380.

Yamaguchi, Kazuo. 2003. “Accelerated Failure-Time Mover-Stayer Regression Models for the Analysis pf Last-Episode Data.” In R.M. Strolzenberg (ed.), Sociological Methodology. Vol 33: 81-110.

Publications and Presentations 2002-2003

Kandel, D. B., and K. Yamaguchi. 2002. Stages of drug involvement in the U.S. population. In Stages and pathways of drug involvement: Examining the gateway hypothesis, ed. D. B. Kandel, 65-89. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Yamaguchi, K. 2002. Regression models with parametrically weighted explanatory variables. Sociological Methodology, 32: 219-245.

Yamaguchi, K. 2002. Stages of drug-use progressions: A comparison of methods, concepts, and operationalizations. In Stages and pathways of drug involvement: Examining the gateway hypothesis, ed. D. B. Kandel, 270-286. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Yamaguchi, K. 2002. The structural and behavioral characteristics of the smallest-world phenomenon: Minimum distance networks. Social Networks, 24:162-182.

Yamaguchi, K., and D. B. Kandel. 2002. Loglinear sequence analyses: Gender and racial and ethnic differences in drug use progression. In Stages and pathways of drug involvement: Examining the gateway hypothesis, ed. D. B. Kandel, 187-222. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.