Stephen E Fienberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 237365 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen E Fienberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen E |
| FAMILY NAME | Fienberg |
| SIGNATURE | FIENBERG S E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carnegie Mellon University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6753-6016 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 170 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Sample Survey Methodology, History of
On the Causes of Effects: Response to Pearl
We welcome Professor Pearl's comment on our original article, Dawid et al. Our focus there on the distinction between the 'Effects of Causes' (EoC) and the 'Causes of Effects' (CoE) concerned two fundamental problems, one a theoretical challenge in statistics and the other a practical challenge for trial courts. In this response, we seek to accomplish several things. First, using Pearl's own notation, we attempt to clarify the similarities and di…
What Is Your Race? The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans
Journal Article What Is Your Race? The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans Get access Kenneth Prewitt. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. xiv, 271 pp. $29.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 2, September 2014, Pages 674–675, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau440 Published: 01 September 2014
Fitting Science Into Legal Contexts: Assessing Effects of Causes or Causes of Effects
Law and science share many perspectives, but they also differ in important ways. While much of science is concerned with the effects of causes (EoC), relying upon evidence accumulated from randomized controlled experiments and observational studies, the problem of inferring the causes of effects (CoE) requires its own framing and possibly different data. Philosophers have written about the need to distinguish between the 'EoC' and 'the CoE' for h…
Authors’ Response to Comments on Fitting Science Into Legal Contexts: Assessing Effects of Causes or Causes of Effects
Cohort Analysis’ Unholy Quest: A Discussion
I am pleased to be able to join in the discussion of the article by Luo (in this issue) on age, period, and cohort (APC) modeling in demographic research. Demographers have had a long fascination with various forms of accounting frameworks, and thus APC modeling was a natural topic for the demographic literature
The Federal Statistical System and the Four “I”s
This article addresses the process through which the federal statistical system may be restored to its appropriate place for providing high-quality data and information, in response to the damage caused by the budgetary woes that agencies have suffered in recent years. The article describes how this work will facilitate moving the country forward, both on its path to economic recovery and to a position of leadership internationally. Four crucial …
Who Are Connected to the Pittsburgh Jewish Community
Whose Ideas? Whose Words? Authorship of Ronald Reagan's Radio Addresses
On January 5, 1975, Ronald Reagan completed two terms as governor of California, and soon thereafter he began taping his nationally syndicated radio program. Between January 1975 and October 1979, with the exception of a brief interlude to compete for the Republican presidential nomination in 1976, the former governor delivered three-minute commentaries that were broadcast every week by approximately 300 U.S. radio stations, reaching an audience …
The Politics of Statistics: Variations on a Theme
Dans cet article, l'A. fait part de ses reflexions concernant l'utilisation de la statistique par les sciences politiques. En confrontant les statistiques dans un contexte politique aux politiques administratives, a la gouvernance et a l'identite des individus, l'A. rapelle que cet outil d'analyse est avant tout un instrument de comprehension sociale, et souligne l'importance de l'enseignement de cette discipline
Why Is There Still a Controversy About Adjusting the Census for Undercount
We appear to agree with Brunell on four factual matters: “Census 2000 is over; the debate over adjusting the census is not”.The computer coding error in 1990 would not have erroneously shifted any congressional seats has adjusted data been used for reapportionment.In March 2001, the Census Bureau announced that it was “unable to conclude ... that the adjusted Census 2000 data are more accurate for redistricting.”The Census Bureau has refused to r…
Getting the Facts on the Census Correct: A Response to Brunell
As the initial results of the 2000 Census were made public, the December 2000 issue of PS was published. In that issue, articles by Lynne Billard (2000), Thomas Brunell (2000a), and by us (Anderson and Fienberg 2000a) explored the technical innovations for adjusting the census to ameliorate the effect of the differential undercount and the political controversies surrounding the implementation of some of those innovations in the 1990 census. We c…
Census 2000 and the politics of census taking
Partisan Politics at Work: Sampling and the 2000 Census
In his preceding article, Brunell offers some background on Census 2000, the use of sampling and adjustment in a census context, the magnitude of the differential undercount from prior censuses, and the debate over the use of sample-based adjustments to the count. Much of his description of Census 2000 is correct, as far as it goes. It is what he leaves out that is problematic. His omissions lead him to draw the wrong conclusions about the underc…
History, Myth Making, and Statistics: A Short Story about the Reapportionment of Congress and the 1990 Census
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness .... Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to fulfil it . —George Santayana, 1905-06 Those who are familiar with the “equal proportions” formula used to reapportion the U.S. House of Representatives each decade are aware how sensitive it is to small changes in states' population data. In 1990, this sensitivity took on new significance as statisticians and politicians deb…
Race and Ethnicity and the Controversy Over the US Census
The article examines the relationship between the history of the census undercount and classification of race and ethnicity in the United States Census. The US decennial census was created to apportion seats in the House of Representatives among the states. The race classification derives from the provisions of the 1787 federal Constitution, which required that the census differentiate slave and free persons and exclude Indians not taxed for the …
Who Counts: The Politics of Census-Taking in Contemporary America
"Who Counts? offers a detailed review of the preparation, implementation, and aftermath of the last three censuses. It recounts the growing criticisms of inaccuracy and undercounting, and the work to develop new enumeration strategies."--BOOK JACKET. "Who Counts? concludes with a discussion of the proposed census design for 2000, as well as the implications of population counts on the composition and size of Congress. This volume reveals in extra…
To Sample or Not to Sample? The 2000 Census Controversy
Controversy and litigation surround the plan to use dual-systems estimation and sampling for the U.S. 2000 census. This article analyzes this conflict in terms of the history and technical development of the census, and attempts to create a basis for its resolution
Advances in Categorical Data Methods and the Study of Historical Patterns of Social Mobility
Theories of Legal Evidence: What Properties Should they Ideally Possess and When are they Informative
Who Counts? The politics of censustaking
A Statistical Model: Frederick Mosteller's Contribution to Statistics, Science, and Public Policy
Contents: Biography.- Bibliography.- Contributions as a Scientific Generalist.- Contributions to Mathematical Statistics.- Contributions to Methodology and Applications.- Fred as Educator.- Fred at Harvard.- Reviews of Book Contributions
A Brief History of Statistics in Three and One-Half Chapters
(1991). A Brief History of Statistics in Three and One-Half Chapters. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 124-135
Cohort Analysis in Social Research: Beyond the Identification Problem
Cognitive psychology meets the national survey
Identification and Estimation of Age-Period-Cohort Models in the Analysis of Discrete Archival Data
We formulate an age-period-cohort specification for discrete data.When ages and periods are evenly and equally spaced there is an identification problem .We explain the problem.Sampling models are indicated and the minimal sufficient statistics are given.The iterative proportional fitting and Newton-Raphson methods for maximum likelihood estimation are described for age-period-cohort specifications.Various formulations of discrete response variab…
Estimable Functions of Age, Period, and Cohort Effects: More Chimeras of the Age-Period-Cohort Accounting Framework: Comment on Rodgers
Cohort Analysis’ Unholy Quest: A Discussion
I am pleased to be able to join in the discussion of the article by Luo (in this issue) on age, period, and cohort (APC) modeling in demographic research. Demographers have had a long fascination with various forms of accounting frameworks, and thus APC modeling was a natural topic for the demographic literature
Categorical Data Analysis of Single Sociometric Relations
Methods based on fitting loglinear models are adapted for the analysis of sociometric relationships among a group of actors, represented as a directed graph.By arranging directed graph data in a four-dimensional cross-classified table, the dyadic relationships between individual actors can be fully studied with a variety of models.These models are based on Holland and Leinhardt's probability density for directed graphs, p 1 , but extend their.app…
Race and Ethnicity and the Controversy Over the US Census
The article examines the relationship between the history of the census undercount and classification of race and ethnicity in the United States Census. The US decennial census was created to apportion seats in the House of Representatives among the states. The race classification derives from the provisions of the 1787 federal Constitution, which required that the census differentiate slave and free persons and exclude Indians not taxed for the …
What Is Your Race? The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans
Journal Article What Is Your Race? The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans Get access Kenneth Prewitt. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. xiv, 271 pp. $29.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 2, September 2014, Pages 674–675, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau440 Published: 01 September 2014
Biometry. The Principles and Practice of Statistics in Biological Research
Fitting Science Into Legal Contexts: Assessing Effects of Causes or Causes of Effects
Law and science share many perspectives, but they also differ in important ways. While much of science is concerned with the effects of causes (EoC), relying upon evidence accumulated from randomized controlled experiments and observational studies, the problem of inferring the causes of effects (CoE) requires its own framing and possibly different data. Philosophers have written about the need to distinguish between the 'EoC' and 'the CoE' for h…
To Sample or Not to Sample? The 2000 Census Controversy
Controversy and litigation surround the plan to use dual-systems estimation and sampling for the U.S. 2000 census. This article analyzes this conflict in terms of the history and technical development of the census, and attempts to create a basis for its resolution
A Statistical Technique for Historians: Standardizing Tables of Counts
A Statistical Technique for Historians: Standardizing Tables of Counts A great deal of historical data is summarized by counts of the number of individuals or objects falling into certain categories, which can be arranged in a row, in a rectangle, or in an array of higher dimensions. If, for example, one wishes to investigate the relationship between a congressman's geographic origin and his voting behavior, one might display the available data i…
The Politics of Statistics: Variations on a Theme
Dans cet article, l'A. fait part de ses reflexions concernant l'utilisation de la statistique par les sciences politiques. En confrontant les statistiques dans un contexte politique aux politiques administratives, a la gouvernance et a l'identite des individus, l'A. rapelle que cet outil d'analyse est avant tout un instrument de comprehension sociale, et souligne l'importance de l'enseignement de cette discipline
Beginning Statistics with Data Analysis
Perspective Canada as a social report
Whose Ideas? Whose Words? Authorship of Ronald Reagan's Radio Addresses
On January 5, 1975, Ronald Reagan completed two terms as governor of California, and soon thereafter he began taping his nationally syndicated radio program. Between January 1975 and October 1979, with the exception of a brief interlude to compete for the Republican presidential nomination in 1976, the former governor delivered three-minute commentaries that were broadcast every week by approximately 300 U.S. radio stations, reaching an audience …
Why Is There Still a Controversy About Adjusting the Census for Undercount
We appear to agree with Brunell on four factual matters: “Census 2000 is over; the debate over adjusting the census is not”.The computer coding error in 1990 would not have erroneously shifted any congressional seats has adjusted data been used for reapportionment.In March 2001, the Census Bureau announced that it was “unable to conclude ... that the adjusted Census 2000 data are more accurate for redistricting.”The Census Bureau has refused to r…
Getting the Facts on the Census Correct: A Response to Brunell
As the initial results of the 2000 Census were made public, the December 2000 issue of PS was published. In that issue, articles by Lynne Billard (2000), Thomas Brunell (2000a), and by us (Anderson and Fienberg 2000a) explored the technical innovations for adjusting the census to ameliorate the effect of the differential undercount and the political controversies surrounding the implementation of some of those innovations in the 1990 census. We c…
Who Counts? The politics of censustaking
A Note on Fitting and Interpreting Parameters in Models for Categorical Data
Biometry. The Principles and Practice of Statistics in Biological Research
A Statistical Technique for Historians: Standardizing Tables of Counts
A Statistical Technique for Historians: Standardizing Tables of Counts A great deal of historical data is summarized by counts of the number of individuals or objects falling into certain categories, which can be arranged in a row, in a rectangle, or in an array of higher dimensions. If, for example, one wishes to investigate the relationship between a congressman's geographic origin and his voting behavior, one might display the available data i…
Inference and Disputed Authorship: The Federalist
On the use of hansen frequencies for estimating rates of behavior
Perspective Canada as a social report
Discrete Multivariate Analysis: Theory and Practice
Multiway Contingency Analysis
Identification and Estimation of Age-Period-Cohort Models in the Analysis of Discrete Archival Data
We formulate an age-period-cohort specification for discrete data.When ages and periods are evenly and equally spaced there is an identification problem .We explain the problem.Sampling models are indicated and the minimal sufficient statistics are given.The iterative proportional fitting and Newton-Raphson methods for maximum likelihood estimation are described for age-period-cohort specifications.Various formulations of discrete response variab…
A Note on Fitting and Interpreting Parameters in Models for Categorical Data
Categorical Data Analysis of Single Sociometric Relations
Methods based on fitting loglinear models are adapted for the analysis of sociometric relationships among a group of actors, represented as a directed graph.By arranging directed graph data in a four-dimensional cross-classified table, the dyadic relationships between individual actors can be fully studied with a variety of models.These models are based on Holland and Leinhardt's probability density for directed graphs, p 1 , but extend their.app…
Estimable Functions of Age, Period, and Cohort Effects: More Chimeras of the Age-Period-Cohort Accounting Framework: Comment on Rodgers
Beginning Statistics with Data Analysis
Cohort Analysis in Social Research: Beyond the Identification Problem
Cognitive psychology meets the national survey
Cognitive psychology meets the national survey
A Brief History of Statistics in Three and One-Half Chapters
(1991). A Brief History of Statistics in Three and One-Half Chapters. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 124-135
A Statistical Model: Frederick Mosteller's Contribution to Statistics, Science, and Public Policy
Contents: Biography.- Bibliography.- Contributions as a Scientific Generalist.- Contributions to Mathematical Statistics.- Contributions to Methodology and Applications.- Fred as Educator.- Fred at Harvard.- Reviews of Book Contributions
Theories of Legal Evidence: What Properties Should they Ideally Possess and When are they Informative
Who Counts? The politics of censustaking
Advances in Categorical Data Methods and the Study of Historical Patterns of Social Mobility
Who Counts: The Politics of Census-Taking in Contemporary America
"Who Counts? offers a detailed review of the preparation, implementation, and aftermath of the last three censuses. It recounts the growing criticisms of inaccuracy and undercounting, and the work to develop new enumeration strategies."--BOOK JACKET. "Who Counts? concludes with a discussion of the proposed census design for 2000, as well as the implications of population counts on the composition and size of Congress. This volume reveals in extra…
To Sample or Not to Sample? The 2000 Census Controversy
Controversy and litigation surround the plan to use dual-systems estimation and sampling for the U.S. 2000 census. This article analyzes this conflict in terms of the history and technical development of the census, and attempts to create a basis for its resolution
Partisan Politics at Work: Sampling and the 2000 Census
In his preceding article, Brunell offers some background on Census 2000, the use of sampling and adjustment in a census context, the magnitude of the differential undercount from prior censuses, and the debate over the use of sample-based adjustments to the count. Much of his description of Census 2000 is correct, as far as it goes. It is what he leaves out that is problematic. His omissions lead him to draw the wrong conclusions about the underc…
History, Myth Making, and Statistics: A Short Story about the Reapportionment of Congress and the 1990 Census
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness .... Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to fulfil it . —George Santayana, 1905-06 Those who are familiar with the “equal proportions” formula used to reapportion the U.S. House of Representatives each decade are aware how sensitive it is to small changes in states' population data. In 1990, this sensitivity took on new significance as statisticians and politicians deb…
Race and Ethnicity and the Controversy Over the US Census
The article examines the relationship between the history of the census undercount and classification of race and ethnicity in the United States Census. The US decennial census was created to apportion seats in the House of Representatives among the states. The race classification derives from the provisions of the 1787 federal Constitution, which required that the census differentiate slave and free persons and exclude Indians not taxed for the …
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