Jennifer Lynn Hill (born 1969) is an American statistician specializing in

causal inference Causal inference is the process of determining the independent, actual effect of a particular phenomenon that is a component of a larger system. The main difference between causal inference and inference of association is that causal inference ana ...

with applications to

social statistics Social statistics is the use of statistical measurement systems to study human behavior in a social environment. This can be accomplished through polling a group of people, evaluating a subset of data obtained about a group of people, or by observ ...

. She is a professor of applied statistics at

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, the ...

in the

Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development The New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development (commonly referred to as Steinhardt) is the secondary liberal arts and education school of New York University. It is one of the only schools in the world of i ...

Education and career

Hill majored in economics at

Swarthmore College Swarthmore College ( , ) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1864, with its first classes held in 1869, Swarthmore is one of the earliest coeduca ...

, graduating in 1991. She earned a master's degree in statistics at

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's ...

in 1995, and completed a Ph.D. in statistics at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

in 2000. Her dissertation, ''Applications of Innovative Statistical Methodology for the Social Sciences'', was jointly supervised by political scientist Gary King and statistician

Donald Rubin Donald is a masculine given name derived from the Gaelic name ''Dòmhnall''.. This comes from the Proto-Celtic *''Dumno-ualos'' ("world-ruler" or "world-wielder"). The final -''d'' in ''Donald'' is partly derived from a misinterpretation of the ...

. She became an assistant professor in the

Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs The School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University (SIPA) is the international affairs and public policy school of Columbia University, a private Ivy League university located in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, New York City. It ...

in 2002. She moved to the New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development in 2008, as an associate professor and founding co-director of the Center for Practice and Research at the Intersection of Information, Society, and Methodology (PRIISM). She was promoted to full professor in 2015.

Books

Hill is the coauthor, with

Andrew Gelman Andrew Eric Gelman (born February 11, 1965) is an American statistician and professor of statistics and political science at Columbia University. Gelman received bachelor of science degrees in mathematics and in physics from MIT, where he was a ...

, of the book ''Data Analysis using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models'' (Cambridge University Press, 2007). With Gelman and Aki Vehtari, she is coauthor of ''Regression and Other Stories'' (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

Recognition

Hill was the 2020–2021 winner of the New York University Distinguished Teaching Award.

Personal life

With other statistics professors Bradley Carlin, Mark Glickman, Donald Hedeker, and

Michael I. Jordan Michael Irwin Jordan (born February 25, 1956) is an American scientist, professor at the University of California, Berkeley and researcher in machine learning, statistics, and artificial intelligence. Jordan was elected a member of the Nation ...

, Hill was a member of a music band, the Imposteriors.

References

External links

Home page
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The Imposteriors
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