Emil Coman


Research Area(s) of Interest

Medical debt, measurement instruments and racial/ethnic health disparities, spatial epidemiology

Dr. Coman has a PhD in communication science and specializes in research methodology applied to several scholarly fields. He has been trained in emotions by his late communications mentor Ross Buck, in statistical modeling (through the backdoor of path analysis though) by Dave Kenny, and in causality by Judea Pearl, who are all still mentoring him. He is an Assistant professor (in residence) in the DPHS and Family Medicine departments and is assisting medical students, residents, and faculty from UConn Health, Storrs, and elsewhere, with research projects, grants, and publications. He works in the Health Disparities institute, where he applies modern analytical methods from across a range of domains, from epidemiology, econometrics, social sciences, and ‘pure’ statistics. He is the moderator of the long running SEMNET, the Structural Equation

Modeling listserv and serves as US Co-Chair of the CASFM Research Methods Working Group, in NAPCRG – North American Primary Care Research Group. He blogs about applied statistical tricks @ evaluatehelp.blogspot.com 

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Emil Coman
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