Paul Rosenbaum, PhD

Paul R. Rosenbaum, PhD 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, Springer), Design of Observational Studies (1st edition 2010, 2nd edition 2020, Springer), Observation and Experiment: An Introduction to Causal Inference (2017, Harvard University Press), Replication and Evidence Factors in Observational Studies (2021, Chapman&Hall/CRC), Causal Inference (2023 MIT Press), and An Introduction to the Theory of Observational Studies (2025, Springer). 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. From the American Statistical Association Health Policy Statistics Section, he received the Long-Term Excellence Award in 2018. From the American Statistical Association Epidemiology Section, he received the Nathan Mantel Award in 2017.