FPG People
Sam Field, Ph.D.
Investigator / Statistician
field@mail.fpg.unc.edu
PH: 919.966.6239
Mailing Address:
Campus Box 8185
The University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-8185
Sam Field, Ph.D. is a statistical investigator at FPG Child Development Institute. He has more than 10 years of experience teaching and applying advanced statistical methodology in the medical and social sciences. At FPG, he develops and applies statistical methodology for a variety of projects that focus on child development and/or early education. Research interests in quantitative methodology include statistical approaches to causal inference, spatial statistics, multi-level modeling, and social network analysis.
From his previous position at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Field brings an NIH-funded research project which focuses on the development of quality measures derived from quantitative outcome data that is routinely collected in a clinical setting. In another research project in early childhood education, he is working with Mike Willoughby to apply a statistical methodology which adjusts estimates of treatment effects in order to account for unobserved heterogeneity in treatment compliance. Other projects include original work in the statistical analysis of human brain imaging data and the application of spatial analytic techniques to a large, longitudinal study of early childhood development of a rural population.Field is working collaboratively with researchers in the Carolina Population Center at UNC-CH as well as the University of Colorado—Boulder and has recently submitted a NIH R01 research grant that involves a genome wide association study of a well known, and nationally representative survey of adolescents (AddHealth Study).
