Paul R. Rosenbaum

Paul R. Rosenbaum
  • Robert G. Putzel Professor
  • Professor of Statistics

Contact Information

  • office Address:

    313 Wharton Academic Research Building
    265 South 37th Street
    Philadelphia, PA 19104

Research Interests: design and analysis of observational studies, design and analysis of experiments, health outcomes research

Links: CV, Personal Website

Overview

Education

PhD, Harvard University, 1980
AM, Harvard University, 1978
BA, Hampshire College, 1977

Career and Recent Professional Awards

R. A. Fisher Award and Lecture from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies, 2019
George W. Snedecor Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies, 2003

Academic Positions Held

Wharton: 1986-present. (named Robert G. Putzel Professor, 2001; Robert B. Egelston Term Professor of Statistics, 1991-92; Joseph Wharton Term Associate Professor and Professor of Statistics, 1986-91)

Previous appointment: University of Wisconsin, Madison

Other Positions

Senior Research Scientist, Research Statistics Group, Educational Testing Service, 1986
Research Scientist, Research Statistics Group, Educational Testing Service, 1983-86
Statistician, Division of Statistics and Applied Mathematics, Office of Radiation Programs, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1980-81

Professional Leadership

Member, Committee on National Statistics, National Research Council, 1996-99
Member, Committee on Data and Research for Policy on Illegal Drugs, National Research Council, 1998-2000
Member, Advisory Board of the Measurement, Methodology and Statistics Program of the U.S. National Science Foundation, 1999-2001

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Research

Teaching

Past Courses

  • BSTA550 - APPLIED REG & ANALY VAR

    An applied graduate level course in multiple regression and analysis of variance for students who have completed an undergraduate course in basic statistical methods. Emphasis is on practical methods of data analysis and their interpretation. Covers model building, general linear hypothesis, residual analysis, leverage and influence, one-way anova, two-way anova, factorial anova. Primarily for doctoral students in the managerial, behavioral, social and health sciences. Permission of instructor required to enroll.

  • PSYC611 - APPLIED REG & ANALY VAR

    An applied graduate level course in multiple regression and analysis of variance for students who have completed an undergraduate course in basic statistical methods. Emphasis is on practical methods of data analysis and their interpretation. Covers model building, general linear hypothesis, residual analysis, leverage and influence, one-way anova, two-way anova, factorial anova. Primarily for doctoral students in the managerial, behavioral, social and health sciences. Permission of instructor required to enroll.

  • PSYC612 - INT TO NONP & LOGLIN MOD

    An applied graduate level course for students who have completed an undergraduate course in basic statistical methods. Covers two unrelated topics: loglinear and logit models for discrete data and nonparametric methods for nonnormal data. Emphasis is on practical methods of data analysis and their interpretation. Primarily for doctoral students in the managerial, behavioral, social and health sciences. Permission of instructor required to enroll.

  • STAT112 - INTRODUCTORY STATISTICS

    Further development of the material in STAT 111, in particular the analysis of variance, multiple regression, non-parametric procedures and the analysis of categorical data. Data analysis via statistical packages. This course may be taken concurrently with the prerequisite with instructor permission.

  • STAT500 - APPLIED REG & ANALY VAR

    An applied graduate level course in multiple regression and analysis of variance for students who have completed an undergraduate course in basic statistical methods. Emphasis is on practical methods of data analysis and their interpretation. Covers model building, general linear hypothesis, residual analysis, leverage and influence, one-way anova, two-way anova, factorial anova. Primarily for doctoral students in the managerial, behavioral, social and health sciences. Permission of instructor required to enroll.

  • STAT501 - INT TO NONP & LOGLIN MOD

    An applied graduate level course for students who have completed an undergraduate course in basic statistical methods. Covers two unrelated topics: loglinear and logit models for discrete data and nonparametric methods for nonnormal data. Emphasis is on practical methods of data analysis and their interpretation. Primarily for doctoral students in the managerial, behavioral, social and health sciences. Permission of instructor required to enroll.

  • STAT991 - SEM IN ADV APPL OF STAT

    This seminar will be taken by doctoral candidates after the completion of most of their coursework. Topics vary from year to year and are chosen from advance probability, statistical inference, robust methods, and decision theory with principal emphasis on applications.

  • STAT995 - DISSERTATION

  • STAT999 - INDEPENDENT STUDY

    Written permission of instructor and the department course coordinator required to enroll.

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Latest Research

Paul R. Rosenbaum (2020), Combining planned and discovered comparisons in observational studies, Biostatistics, (to appear).
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Grading Hospital Quality with a Level Playing Field

By “matching” patients across a group of hospitals, a new paper co-authored by two Wharton professors suggests a fairer and more accurate way of assessing the quality of health care providers.

Knowledge @ Wharton - 5/20/2014
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