Andrew Gelman, PhD will visit the B&B Department as part of the Distinguished Speaker Series on Oct 6-7 2016. On Thursday, Oct. 6 he will present on “ The Statistical Crisis in Science” and on Friday Oct 7 he will discuss “Taking Bayesian Inference Seriously.” The Distinguished Speaker Series has included several prominent scientists over the past several years.
Gelman is a professor of statistics and political science and director of the Applied Statistics Center at Columbia University. He 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, David Dunson, Aki Vehtari, and Don Rubin), Teaching Statistics: A Bag of Tricks (with Deb Nolan), Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models (with Jennifer Hill), Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State: Why Americans Vote the Way They Do (with David Park, Boris Shor, and Jeronimo Cortina), and A Quantitative Tour of the Social Sciences (co-edited with Jeronimo Cortina).
Dr. Gelman’s research interests include a wide range of topics, including toxicology, medical imaging, survey methodology, experimental design, statistical inference, computation, and graphics. He has published on provocative topics such as: 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.