A Quantitative Tour of the Social Sciences

Andrew Gelman teaches statistics and political science at Columbia University and was the founding director of the Quantitative Methods in Social Sciences Program, an interdisciplinary program at Columbia University that bridges history, economics, sociology, political science, and statistics. His research has won awards including the Outstanding Statistical Application Award from the American Statistical Association; best paper of the year awards from Political Analysis and the American Political Science Review; and the research software award from the American Political Science Association. He also received the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies Award for outstanding contributions by a statistician under 40. His books include Bayesian Data Analysis, Teaching Statistics: A Bag of Tricks, and the forthcoming Applied Regression and Multilevel Models.Gelman, Andrew is the author of 'A Quantitative Tour of the Social Sciences', published 2009 under ISBN 9780521861984 and ISBN 0521861985.