Lou Mariano is a senior statistician at RAND. His current research includes topics in education, criminal justice, and health care.
Mariano's education research has focused on evaluations of the implementation and efficacy of school reform efforts; furthering the methodology and application of experimental and quasi-experimental designs; refining methods for estimating teacher contributions to student learning; and the expansion of item response theory models, with emphasis on survey applications. His current criminal justice research topics include prosecutor-initiated resentencing and models to assess pretrial risk.
Mariano holds a Ph.D. in statistics from Carnegie Mellon University.
Ph.D. in statistics, Carnegie Mellon University; M.S. in statistics, Carnegie Mellon University; B.S. in mathematics and statistics, American University
