Leo A. Goodman

Leo A. Goodman is the Class of 1938 Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the Charles L. Hutchinson Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago from 1970 to 1986. Member, National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. Goodman is recognized for his contributions to statistics, both theoretical and applied, and to the development of new statistical methods for the analysis of social science data, especially the kind of qualitative/categorical data typically obtained via survey research. His more recent research has been focused mainly on the further development of statistical methods that bring the same kind of rigor to the analysis of qualitative/categorical data that has been available in the analysis of quantitative data. In 1953-54 and 1959-60 he was a Visiting Professor at Clare College and in the Statistical Laboratory at Cambridge University in England.