Jun XU

Growing up in the Southeast Coast, receiving undergrad education in the North of China, and dissertating and professing in North America for years, Professor Jun Xu views himself as a geographical and intellectual vagabond with a wide range of scholarly interests. Before joining UM, he taught sociology and data/statistical science courses at Ball State University and through other venues, such as ICPSR and CASER’s Summer School. Professor Xu’s primary research/teaching interests include data and statistical science (computational social science, Bayesian statistics, categorical data analysis, causal inference, machine learning), Asia and Asian America (Asian Americans and China), health and social epidemiology (health disparities, healthcare systems and utilization, and international health), social demography, and welfare systems and political economy. His professional goals are to research to enlighten and to teach to inspire.

Professor Xu regularly collaborates with other scholars in his specialty areas and enjoys working with students on their research projects at both undergraduate and graduate levels. When not at work, Jun loves running, swimming, doing push-ups, tweaking codes, and playing board games. He primarily uses and is still learning R, Stata, and Python for methodological, pedagogical, and substantive projects. His work has appeared in, among others, Comparative Education Review, Social Forces, Social Science & Medicine, Sociological Methods and Research, Social Science Research, and The Stata Journal. He has also published two books–Ordered Regression Models and Modern Applied Regressions–on regression analysis of categorical and limited response variables with Chapman & Hall/CRC.

• PhD in Sociology, Indiana University, USA

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

Books

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).

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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)

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

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

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