Yang Liu, a graduate student in Quantitative Psychology, is a recipient of the 2016 Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award.
The Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award recognizes the scholarly contributions of UNC Chapel Hill doctoral students as revealed through their dissertation project and highlight the timely completion of doctoral training. The selection criteria includes originality, innovation, scholarly excellence, methodological sophistication, and significant contribution to the discipline.
Yang won for his dissertation, “Generalized Fiducial Inference for Graded Response Models.”