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professor of statistics and political science, as well as director of the Applied Statistics Center
Andrew Gelman received his Ph.D. in statistics from Harvard University in 1990. His books include Bayesian Data Analysis; Teaching Statistics: A Bag of Tricks; A Quantitative Tour of the Social Sciences; and Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State: Why Americans Vote the Way They Do. He is currently professor of statistics and political science, as well as director of the Applied Statistics Center, at Columbia University.
arXiv:2606.29842, June 29, 2026
Andrew Gelman, Andrew H. Jaffe, Eliot Carlson, and Philip Greengard
arXiv:2603.20068, March 20, 2026
Tiffany Cai, Philip Greengard, Ben Goodrich, and Andrew Gelman
Investigator, Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain
Assistant Professor of Social and Decision Sciences
Co-Director, Simons Observatory
Andrew Gelman
