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Andrew Gelman

Affiliation: Columbia University

Andrew Gelman is a professor of statistics and political science and director of the Applied Statistics Center at Columbia University. He has received the Outstanding Statistical Application award from the American Statistical Association, the award for best article published in the American Political Science Review, and the Council of Presidents of Statistical Societies award for outstanding contributions by a person under the age of 40.

His books include Bayesian Data Analysis (with John Carlin, Hal Stern, and Don Rubin), Teaching Statistics: A Bag of Tricks (with Deb Nolan), Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models (with Jennifer Hill), and, most recently, Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State: Why Americans Vote the Way They Do (with David Park, Boris Shor, Joe Bafumi, and Jeronimo Cortina).

Andrew has done research on a wide range of topics, including: why it is rational to vote; why campaign polls are so variable when elections are so predictable; why redistricting is good for democracy; reversals of death sentences; police stops in New York City, the statistical challenges of estimating small effects; the probability that your vote will be decisive; seats and votes in Congress; social network structure; arsenic in Bangladesh; radon in your basement; toxicology; medical imaging; and methods in surveys, experimental design, statistical inference, computation, and graphics.

Visit: Andrew Gelman's Website




Andrew Gelman's Latest Articles | 24

Libertarians in Space

Jan 3, 2012| 

After quoting from a speech where a Republican presidential candidate praises the space program, Mark Palko writes: I [Palko] don’t know what the reaction of the... Read »

The Most Dangerous Jobs in America

Dec 28, 2011| 

Robin Hanson writes: On the criteria of potential to help people avoid death, this would seem to be among the most important news I’ve ever heard. [In his recent... Read »

Blogging is “Destroying the Business Model for Quality”?

Aug 22, 2011| 

Journalist Jonathan Rauch writes that the internet is Sturgeon squared: This is the blogosphere. I’m not getting paid to be here. I’m here to get incredibly... Read »

Is the Internet Causing Half the Rapes in Norway?

May 17, 2011| 

Ryan King writes: This involves causal inference, hierarchical setup, small effect sizes (in absolute terms), and will doubtless be heavily reported in the media. The... Read »

Is Harvard Hurting Poor Kids by Cutting Tuition for the Upper Middle Class?

Mar 3, 2011| 1

Timothy Noah reports: At the end of 2007, Harvard announced that it would limit tuition to no more than 10 percent of family income for families earning up to $180,000.... Read »

In Case You Were Wondering, Here’s the Price of Milk

Feb 24, 2011| 

Seeing Sarah Palin’s recent witticism: It’s no wonder Michelle Obama is telling everybody you need to breast feed your babies … the price of milk... Read »

‘Why Work?’

Dec 9, 2010| 

Tyler Cowen links to a “scary comparison” that claims that “a one-parent family of three making $14,500 a year (minimum wage) has more disposable... Read »

Prison Terms for Financial Fraud?

Nov 18, 2010| 

My econ dept colleague Joseph Stiglitz suggests that financial fraudsters be sent to prison. He points out that the usual penalty–million-dollar fines–just... Read »

Statistics of Food Consumption

Nov 15, 2010| 

Visual Economics shows statistics on average food consumption in America: My brief feedback is that water is confounded with these results. They should have subtracted... Read »

2010: What Happened?

Nov 5, 2010| 

A lot of people are asking, How could the voters have swung so much in two years? And, why didn’t Obama give Americans a better sense of his long-term economic... Read »

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