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 ( ) is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia. Established in 1881 through a donation from Joseph Wharton, a co-founder of Bethlehem Steel, the Wharton ...

, 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 an ...

observational studies In fields such as epidemiology, social sciences, psychology and statistics, an observational study draws inferences from a sample to a population where the independent variable is not under the control of the researcher because of ethical conc ...

, 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 Psychometrics is a field of study within psychology concerned with the theory and technique of measurement. Psychometrics generally covers specialized fields within psychology and education devoted to testing, measurement, assessment, and rela ...

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, (v) ''Causal Inference'', 2023, in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series. For work in causal inference, the

Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) comprises the presidents, past presidents and presidents-elect of the following, primarily Northern American, professional societies of statisticians: * American Statistical Association * ...

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 The American Statistical Association (ASA) is the main professional organization for statisticians and related professionals in the United States. It was founded in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 27, 1839, and is the second-oldest continuous ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rosenbaum, Paul R. Year of birth missing (living people) Living people University of Pennsylvania faculty American statisticians Fellows of the American Statistical Association Harvard University alumni