Paul R. Rosenbaum is the Robert G. Putzel Professor Emeritus in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania ( ; also known as Wharton Business School, the Wharton School, Penn Wharton, and Wharton) is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, a Private university, private Ivy League rese ...
, where he worked from 1986 through 202
https://ldi.upenn.edu/fellows/fellows-directory/paul-r-rosenbaum-phd/] He has written extensively about 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 ...
in observational studies, including sensitivity analysis, optimal matching, design sensitivity, evidence factors, quasi-experimental devices, and (with Donald B. Rubin) the propensity score. With various coauthors, he has also written about health outcomes, racial disparities in health outcomes, instrumental variables, psychometrics and experimental design.
Rosenbaum is the author of several books: (i) ''Observational Studies'', first edition 1995, second edition 2002, in the Springer Series in Statistics, New York: Springer, (ii) ''Design of Observational Studies'', first edition 2010, second edition 2020, in the Springer Series in Statistics, New York: Springer, (iii) ''Observation and Experiment: An Introduction to Causal Inference'', 2017, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, (iv) ''Replication and Evidence Factors in Observational Studies'', 2021, in the Chapman & Hall/CRC Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability, 167, New York: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group.
For work in causal inference, the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies gave Rosenbaum the R. A. Fisher Award and Lectureship in 2019 and the George W. Snedecor Award in 2003. His R. A. Fisher Lecture is available o
YouTube
beginning at minute 32. He received Nathan Mantel Award from the Section on Statistics in Epidemiology of the American Statistical Association in 2017, and the Long-Term Excellence Award from the Health Policy Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association in 2018. He delivered a
Institute of Mathematical Statistics Medallion Lecture
about evidence factors in 2020, and
complete
and
short
version of the lecture are available on YouTube. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Pennsylvania faculty
American statisticians
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Harvard University alumni
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