Paul R. Rosenbaum

Paul R. Rosenbaum is the Robert G. Putzel Professor Emeritus in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of several books, including Observational Studies (1st edition 1995, 2nd edition 2002), Design of Observational Studies (1st edition 2010, 2nd edition 2020), Observation and Experiment: An Introduction to Causal Inference (2017), and Replication and Evidence Factors in Observational Studies (2021). In joint work, he and Donald B. Rubin invented the propensity score in 1983. For contributions to causal inference, he received from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies the R. A. Fisher Award in 2019 and the George W. Snedecor Award in 2003.