Fernanda Alvarado-Leiton completed her PhD in Survey and Data Science in 2021at the University of Michigan and also holds a MSc and a Bachelor's degree in Statistics awarded by the Universidad de Costa Rica. Fernanda is interested in combining her background in statistics with the social science side of survey methodology to advance the field in measurement error, which is her main research interest. In this area, she has worked on acquiescent response style and she has proposed methodologies of statistical adjustments to to account for this error. Currently she works as an invited lecturer at the Universidad de Costa Rica, teaching applied sampling and survey methodology to undergraduate and graduate students. She is also involved in the execution and analysis of the Costa Rican Consumer Sentiment Survey.
Current Research/Work:
1) Overseeing the methodology of the Costa Rican Consumer Sentiment Survey to ensure the implementation of best practices. 2) Understanding how race-ethnicity affects acquiescent response tendencies 3) Understanding how response order and survey mode affect acquiescent response tendencies
More information about me:
I live in Costa Rica, sadly nowhere near a beach. However, I can’t complain since I live in a mountainous region with great locations to hike, and also, the views and sunsets are amazing. I have three pets with my husband and all of them are named after food: Bizcocho (means biscuit), Cupcake and Budín (means pudding).
