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Andrew Gelman

Andrew Gelman is Professor of Statistics and Political Science at Columbia University. His books include Bayesian Data Analysis, Teaching Statistics: A Bag of Tricks, and Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State: Why Americans Vote the Way They Do. He also blogs at Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science.

Articles

A group seeking to ban affirmative action has sued Harvard for discriminating against Asian Americans. The core issues won't be resolved by statistics alone.

Andrew Gelman, Sharad Goel, Daniel E. Ho

Forums

The truth about Obama’s victory wasn’t in the papers.

John Sides, Andrew Gelman

Forum Responses

The story of Congress’s demise, as Representative Cooper tells it, has an economic and a political component. The economic component describes a government that has promised more than it can spend; the...
Andrew Gelman
At the end of his bracing critique of Wall Street bailouts, lax financial regulation, and the state of corporate governance, Eliot Spitzer raises a critical issue: “Being able to diagnose a problem...
John Sides, Andrew Gelman, Sarah Binder
We appreciate the thoughtful comments of Michael Dawson, Richard Johnston and Emily Thorson, Rick Perlstein, and Mark Schmitt. They add new insights about 2008 and push us to reflect on our own...
John Sides, Andrew Gelman

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