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Andrew Gelman
Born (1965-02-11) February 11, 1965 (age 59)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
InstitutionsColumbia University
Doctoral advisorDonald Rubin

Andrew Gelman (born February 11, 1965) is an American statistician, professor of statistics and political science, and director of the Applied Statistics Center at Columbia University. He earned an S.B. in mathematics and in physics from MIT in 1986 and a Ph.D. in statistics from Harvard University in 1990 under the supervision of Donald Rubin.[1][2]

He has received the Outstanding Statistical Application award from the American Statistical Association three times.[3] He is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association [4] and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.[5]

Personal life

Gelman married Caroline Rosenthal in 2002[6] and has three children, Zachary, Jacob, and Sophie.[7]

His sister is the psychologist Susan Gelman.

Work

Andrew Gelman is currently a professor of political science and statistics at Columbia University, where he also directs the Applied Statistics Center.[8] The Applied Statistics Center conducts research with several other departments at Columbia University, as well as containing a number of individual projects.[9] Gelman is a practitioner of Bayesian statistics,[10] and hierarchical models.[11]

Gelman is notable for his efforts to make political science and statistics more accessible to journalists and to the public. He is one of the primary authors of The Monkey Cage,[12] a Washington Post blog dedicated to providing informed commentary on politics and making political science more accessible.[13]

Gelman also keeps his own blog which deals with statistical practices in social science.[14] He frequently writes about Bayesian statistics, displaying data, and interesting trends in social science.[15][16][17]

Bibliography

  • Andrew Gelman, David Park, Boris Shor, and Jeronimo Cortina. "Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State: Why Americans Vote the Way They Do (2nd edition). Princeton University Press, 2009.
  • Andrew Gelman and Jennifer Hill. "Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models". Cambridge University Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-521-68689-1
  • Andrew Gelman and Deborah Nolan. "Teaching Statistics: A Bag of Tricks". Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-19-857224-4
  • Andrew Gelman, John B. Carlin, Hal S. Stern, David Dunson, Aki Vehtari, and Donald B. Rubin. "Bayesian Data Analysis" (3rd edition). Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2013.

References

  1. ^ Andrew Gelman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ Kesselman, Ellie (10 September 2014). "Statistics comes to Swarthmore College". Retrieved 19 November 2016. ...familiar name on that very short list of all Harvard Statistics PhD alumni: Columbia University political science and statistics professor Andrew Gelman in 1990
  3. ^ "Outstanding Statistical Application Award". American Statistical Association. Archived from the original on 8 April 2016. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  4. ^ ASA Fellows: http://www.amstat.org/careers/fellowslist.cfm
  5. ^ IMS Fellows: http://www.imstat.org/awards/honored_fellows.htm
  6. ^ "WEDDINGS; Caroline Rosenthal, Andrew Gelman". The New York Times. 2002-05-12. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-11-03.
  7. ^ "The way science works…or doesn't". Life After Baby. Retrieved 2016-11-03.
  8. ^ Andrew Gelman, Department of Statistics and Department of Political Science, Columbia University: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/
  9. ^ Applied Statistics Center: http://applied.stat.columbia.edu/
  10. ^ Andrew Gelman, John B. Carlin, Hal S. Stern and Donald B. Rubin. "Bayesian Data Analysis" (2nd edition). Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2003. ISBN 978-1-58488-388-3
  11. ^ Gelman, Andrew (2006). "Multilevel (hierarchical) modeling: what it can and cannot do" (PDF). Technometrics. 48 (3): 432–435. doi:10.1198/004017005000000661. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 May 2006. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  12. ^ "Monkey Cage". Washington Post. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  13. ^ The Monkey Cage: http://themonkeycage.org/2007/11/20/why_this_blog/
  14. ^ Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science: http://andrewgelman.com/
  15. ^ How Do I Make My Graphs?: http://andrewgelman.com/2013/03/15/how-do-i-make-my-graphs/
  16. ^ Exponential Increase In The Number of Stat Majors: http://andrewgelman.com/2013/04/21/exponential-increase-in-the-number-of-stat-majors/
  17. ^ Everyone’s trading bias for variance at some point, it’s just done at different places in the analyses: http://andrewgelman.com/2013/03/14/everyones-trading-bias-for-variance-at-some-point-its-just-done-at-different-places-in-the-analyses/
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