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Joseph B. Kadane

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Leonard J. Savage University Professor of Statistics and Social Sciences Emeritus

Education:
  • Harvard College - B.A. - 1962
  • Stanford University - Ph.D. - 1966
Teaching and Research Interests:
  • Econometrics, operations research, computer science, mathematics and statistical theory and management science.
Website and/or personal homepage:
http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/~kadane

Published Papers: 
  • A Bayesian Analysis of Metazoan Mitochondrial Genome Arrangements
    Molecular Biology and Evolution 22(3), 2005.
    (with: B. Larget, D. Simon, D. Sweet)

  • Statistical Methods for Elicitating Probability Distributions
    JASA Reviews 100(470), 2005; 680-701.
    (with: P. Garthwaite, A. O'Hagan)

  • Corbelled Domes in Two and Three Dimensions: The Treasury of Atreus
    International Statistical Review 72(2), 2004; 239-255.
    (with: N. Lazur, F. Chen, W. Cavanaugh, C. Litton)

  • Extracting Confidential Information from Public Documents: The 2000 Department of Justice Report on the Federal Use of the Death Penalty in the United States
    Journal of Official Statistics 20, 2004; 97-113.
    (with: D. Algranate)

  • To What Degree Does Food Assistance Help Poor Households Acquire Enough Food?
    Journal of Poverty 8(2), 2004; 63-87.
    (with: B. Daponte, A. Haviland)

  • Hierarchical Models for Employment Decisions
    Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 22(2), 2004; 182-193.
    (with: G. Woodworth)

  • Computing with the COM-Poisson Distribution
    CMU Statistics Department Technical Report #775, 2003.
    (with: Peter Boatwright, T Minka, Galit Shmueli, Sharad Borle)

  • Comparing Harm Done by Mobility and Class Absence: Missing Students and Missing Data
    Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics 28(3), 2003; 269-288.
    (with: M. Dunn, J. Garrow)

  • Vote Tampering in a District Justice Election in Beaver County, PA
    JASA 96(454), 2001; 510-518.
    (with: I. DiMatteo)

  • Alleged Racial Steering in an Apartment Complex
    Chance 14(2), 2001; 19-22.
    (with: J. Connor)

  • How Sets of Coherent Probabilities May Serve as Models for Degrees of Incoherence
    International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems 8(3), 2000; 347-355.

  • Sampling-Based Adjustment of the 2000 Census - A Balanced Perspective
    Jurimetrics 40, 2000; 341-356.
    (with: M. Anderson, B. Daponte, S. Fienberg, B. Spencer, D. Steffey)

  • Rethinking the Foundations of Statistics
    Edited by J.B. Kadane, M. Schervish and T. Seidenfeld, Cambridge University Press, 1999.

  • Bayesian Methods and Ethics in a Critical Trial Design
    Edited volume, J. Wiley & Sons, 1996.

  • A Probabilistic Analysis of the Sacco and Vanzetti Evidence
    J. Wiley & Sons, 1996.
    (with: David Schum)

Publications: 
  • "Forensic Statistics and Multiparty Bayesianism"
    in J.L. Gastwirth (ed.) Statistical Science in the Courtroom, 353-362, Springer-Verlag, (2000).

  • "Statistics in Proof of Employment Discrimination Cases"
    in B. Grofman (ed.) Statistics in Proof of Employment Discrimination Cases, 242-262, University of Virginia Press, (2000).
    (with: C. Mitchell)

  • Rethinking the Foundations of Statistics, Cambridge University Press, (1999).
    (with: M. Schervish, T. Seidenfeld)

  • A Probabilistic Analysis of the Sacco and Vanzetti Evidence, J. Wiley & Sons, (1996).
    (with: David Schum)

Awards:
  • Fulbright Grantee, Chile - 2005
  • Co-winner, Frank Wilcoxon Award for the Best Applied Paper in Technometrics - 1993
  • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1980
  • Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics - 1975
  • Fellow, American Statistical Association - 1973
Consulting:
  • Consulting on legal cases with various firms.
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