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Professor

• Affiliation(s)

  • Professor of Statistics
  • Faculty Associate, Center for Political Studies

• Fields of Study

  • Formal Modeling
  • Political Economy
  • Political Behavior

• Education

  • Yale University, Ph.D. (Political Science)
  • Yale University, M.A. (Political Science)
  • Harvard University, B.A. (Government)

• Awards

  • Cornell University Robert A. and Donna B. Award for Excellence in Advising (2003-2004)
  • Harold Gosnell Award (with Jonathan Wand) (1996)
  • Midwest Political Science Association Brooks-Cole Award (1982)

• Grants

  • NSF Award (2002-2005)
  • Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences, NSF Grant

• Presentations

  • Second-digit Tests for Voters' Election Strategies and Election Fraud (MPSA Annual Meeting, 2012)
  • Measurement Error, Missing Values and Latent Structure in Governance Indicators (APSA Annual Meeting, 2011)
  • Causal Inference without Ignorability: Identification of Treatment Effects with Missing Treatment Data and Nonrandom Assignment (Summer Meeting of the Political Methodology Society, 2011)

• Projects

  • Election Forensics (book m.s.)
  • Governance Indicators
  • Factors Associated with the Excessive CD-13 Undervote in the 2006 General Election in Sarasota County, Florida

• Courses Taught

  • Methods Seminar (graduate)
  • Multivariate Analysis (graduate)
  • Election Forensics (undergraduate)

• Selected Publications:

• Articles

  • (2011) Genetic Optimization Using Derivatives: The Rgenoud Package for R, Journal of Statistical Software
  • (2011) Comment on `Benford's Law and the Detection of Election Fraud', Political Analysis
  • (2010) Fraud in the 2009 Presidential Election in Iran?, Chance
  • (2004) Robust Estimation and Outlier Detection for Overdispersed Multinomial Models of Count Data, American Journal of Political Science

• Book Chapters

  • (2008) Election Forensics: The Second-digit Benford's Law Test and Recent American Presidential Elections, Election Fraud: Detecting and Deterring Electoral Manipulation