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Richard A. Berk
Professor of Statistics and Criminology


Education

PhD, The Johns Hopkins University, 1970; BA, Yale University, 1964

Recent Consulting

Philadelphia Adult Department of Probation and Parole; Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole; Los Angeles Police Department; Mesa (Arizona) Police Department; Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, Washington, D.C. Police Department

Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards

Elected to the Sociological Research Association; Elected Fellow to the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Paul S. Lazarsfeld Award for methodological contributions from the American Sociological Association; Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association; Elected Fellow of the Academy of Experimental Criminology

Academic Positions Held

Wharton: 2006-present. University of Pennsylvania:2006-present. Previous appointments: University of California, Los Angles; University of California, Santa Barbara; Northwestern University. Visiting appointments: Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France; Los Alamos National Laboratories, Statistics Group

Professional Leadership 2005-2009

Editor, The Evaluation Review

Corporate and Public Sector Leadership 2005-2009

National Research Council Panel on the Design of the 2010 Census Program of Evaluations and Experiments (CPEX)

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Publications
Richard A. Berk, Lawrence Sherman, Geoffrey Barnes, Ellen Kurtz, Lindsay Ahlman (2009), Forecasting Murder within a Population of Probationers and Parolees: A High Stakes Application of Statistical Learning, Journal of the Royal, Statistical Society (Series A), 172, Part1: 971-1008
David Freedman, Richard A. Berk (2008), Weighting Regressions by Propensity Scores, Evaluation Review, 32: 392-409
Cleridy Lennert, Richard A. Berk (2007), Statistical Learning Procedures for Monitoring Regulatory Compliance: An Application to Fisheries Data, Journal of the Royal, Statistical Society (Series A), 170(3): 671-689
Alex Deloncle, Richard A. Berk, Fabio D'Andrea, Michael Ghil (2007), Weather Regime Prediction Using Statistical Learning, Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 64(5): 1619-1635
Richard A. Berk, Lawrence Brown, Linda Zhao, Statistical Inference After Model Selection, Journal of Quantitative Criminology

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Berk A. Richard
Richard A. Berk

3730 Walnut St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone
berkr@wharton.upenn.edu

Research Interests:
Applied Statistics, statistical/machine learning, causal inference, forecasting