On the C-SPAN Networks: Andrew Gelman is a Founding Director for the Applied Statistics Center in the Columbia University with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2008 ...

Andrew Joel Gelman, 58, died tragically in an accident on Sep. 8, Key West, FL. He was born in Chicago, the son of Meyer and Kaye Gelman. He is survived by his wife, Francine of 37 years; daughters, ...

Trump doesn’t use numbers the way most of us do, as “things that can be added, subtracted, multiplied, and divided,” as Columbia University statistician Andrew Gelman put it. Rather, he uses them as ...

Noam Chomsky on failing neoliberal policies in the United States and the developing world; Andrew Gelman and John Sides take on the accepted wisdom on Obama’s victory, with responses from Rick ...

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If the effect is small and variation is large, conventional data analysis using "statistical significance" can fool you, and there's no substitute for looking at new data. In a meritocracy, the whole ...

A new study finds big variation in upward mobility -- high in the Midwest, negative in the West and deep South.

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