Gregory R. Hancock, Ph.D.

Greg Hancock is Professor, Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, and Director of the Measurement, Statistics, and Evaluation program in the Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and Director of the Center for Integrated Latent Variable Research (CILVR). In collaboration with Patrick Curran, Greg co-hosts the podcast Quantitude. His research interests include structural equation modeling and latent growth models, power, reliability, and the use of latent variables in (quasi)experimental design. His research has appeared in such journals as PsychometrikaMultivariate Behavioral ResearchStructural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary JournalPsychological Methods, and British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology. He also co-edited the volumes Structural Equation Modeling: A Second Course (2006; 2013), The Reviewer’s Guide to Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (2010; 2019), Advances in Latent Variable Mixture Models (2008), Advances in Longitudinal Methods in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (2012), and Advances in Latent Class Analysis: A Festschrift in Honor of C. Mitchell Dayton (2019). He serves on the editorial board of a number of journals including Psychological MethodsMultivariate Behavioral Research, and Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, and has taught over 200 methodological workshops in the United States, Canada, and abroad.