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Yu Xie is Otis Dudley Duncan Distinguished University Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology at the University of Michigan. He is also affiliated with the Department of Statistics, the Population Studies Center and the Survey Research Center of the Institute for Social Research, and the Center for Chinese Studies. At the Survey Research Center, he directs the Quantitative Methodology Program (QMP). He is the past editor of Sociological Methodology (2006-2009).

His recently published books are:

Xie and Shauman 2003 book Women in Science	Powers and Xie 2008 book Statistical Methods for Categorical Data Analysis (2nd Edition)
Xie's 2006 book Sociological Methodology and Quantitative Analysis (Chinese)	Thornton, Axinn, and Xie 2007 Book Marriage and Cohabitation