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Email

xujun@um.edu.mo

Tel

+853 8822 8319

Office

Rm.3010, Humanities and Social Sciences Building (E21)
Department of Sociology, University of Macau
Taipa, Macau SAR, China

Consultation Hours

by appointment

Jun XU

Professor
Department Head

Academic Qualifications

PhD in Sociology, Indiana University, USA

Research Interests

Computational Social Science
Data Science and Machine Learning
Asia and Asian America
Social Demography
Social Epidemiology
Welfare Systems and Political Economy

Publications

Books

  1. Xu, Jun. 2023. Modern Applied Regressions: Bayesian and Frequentist Analysis of Categorical and Limited Response Variables with R and Stan. Chapman & Hall/CRC of Taylor & Francis Group (Statistics in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Series): New York (300 pp).
  2. Fullerton, S. Andrew and Jun Xu. 2016. Ordered Regression Models: Parallel, Partial, and Non-Parallel Alternatives. Chapman & Hall/CRC of Taylor & Francis Group (Statistics in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Series): New York (190 pp).

Articles

  1. Xu, Jun, Shawn Bauldry, and Andrew S. Fullerton. 2022. “Bayesian Approaches to Assessing the Parallel Lines Assumption in Cumulative Ordered Logit Models.” Sociological Methods & Research 51 (2), 667-698.
  2. Xu, Jun, Wei Zhao, and Fang Gong. 2021. “Market Transition, Multidimensional Socioeconomic Status, and Health Disparities in Urban China.” Sociological Perspectives, 64(2):196-222
  3. Zhao, Wei and Jun Xu. 2020. “Visible and Invisible Hands Intertwined: State-Market Symbiotic Interactions and Changing Income Inequality in Urban China.” Social Science Research, 91.
  4. Bauldry, Shawn, Jun Xu, and Andrew S. Fullerton. 2018. “gencrm: A New Command for Generalized Continuation Ratio Model.” The Stata Journal, 18(4):1-13
  5. Fullerton, Andrew S. and Jun Xu. 2018. “Constrained and Unconstrained Partial Adjacent Category Logit Models for Ordinal Response Variables.” Sociological Methods & Research, 47(2):169-206
  6. Xu, Jun. 2016. “Patriarchy, Gendered Spheres, or Evolutionary Adaption? A Cross-National Examination of Adolescent Boys and Girls Access to Home Resources.” Chinese Sociological Review, 48(3):209-247.
  7. Xu, Jun and Andrew S. Fullerton. 2013-2014. “Comparing, Confounding, or Clarifying? Alternative Measures of Group Comparisons in Binary Regression Models.” Chinese Sociological Review 46:91-119.
  8. Xu, Jun and Jennifer Lee. 2013. “Marginalized ‘Model’ Minority? An Empirical Examination of the Racial Triangulation of Asian Americans.” Social Forces 91(4):1363-1397. (This paper is also the recipient of the Research Paper Award by the Asia and Asian America Section of the American Sociology Association in 2015)
  9. Xu, Jun and Gillian Thompson-Hampden. 2012. “Cultural Reproduction, Cultural Mobility, Cultural Resource or Trivial Effect? A Comparative Approach to Cultural Capital and Educational Performance.” Comparative Education Review, 56(1):98-124
  10. Fullerton, Andrew and Jun Xu. 2012. “The Proportional Odds with Partial Proportionality Constraints Model for Ordinal Response Variables.” Social Science Research, 41(1):182-198
  11. Gong, Fang, Jun Xu, Kaori Fujihiro and David Takeuchi. 2011. “A Life Course Perspective on Migration and Mental Health among Asian Immigrants: The Role of Human Agency.” Social Science & Medicine, 73(11):1618-26
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