Ben B. Hansen

Associate Professor of Statistics

445F West Hall
Department of Statistics
University of Michigan
1085 South University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1107

Phone: (734)-647-5456
Fax: (734)-763-4676
E-Mail: bbh@umich.edu
Website: http://www.stat.lsa.umich.edu/~bbh/

Research Interests

Causal inference in comparative studies, particularly observational studies in the social sciences; matching and propensity scores; randomization-based inference; minimum expected-length confidence intervals.

Courses Taught

Statistics 480
Statistics 700

Positions

Faculty Associate, Survey Research Center - Quantitative Methods Group, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan

Education

A.B. Mathematics and Philosophy, Harvard College, 1993
M.A. Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, 2000
Ph.D. Logic and Methodology of Science, University of California, Berkeley, 2001

Selected Publications

B. B. Hansen and S. Olsen Klopfer (2006). Optimal full matching and related designs via network flows. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 15, (3) 609-627.

S. E. Evans, B. B Hansen & P. B. Stark (2005) Minimax expected measure confidence sets for restricted location parameters. Bernoulli, 11, (4) 571-590.

J. D. Morenoff, J. S. House, B. B. Hansen, D. R.Williams, G. A. Kaplan, H. E. Hunte (2007). Understanding social disparities in hypertension prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control: The role of neighborhood context. In press, Social Science and Medicine.

A. Gnedin, B. B. Hansen, J. Pitman (2007). Notes on the occupancy problem with infinitely many boxes: general asymptotics and power laws. Probability Surveys, 4, 146–171.

B. B. Hansen (2008). The Prognostic Analogue of the Propensity Score. Biometrika 95, (2) 481-88.

M. Cerda, J. D. Morenoff, B. B. Hansen, K. J. Tessari Hicks, L. F. Duque, A. Restrepo, A. V. Diez roux. Reducing Violence by Transforming Neighborhoods: A Natural Experiment in Medellin. To appear, American Journal of Epidemiology.

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