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Walter Mebane

Professor of Political Science and Statistics


7735 Haven Hall
Department of Statistics
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1107

Phone: (734)-763-2220
Fax: (734) 764-3522
E-Mail: wmebane@umich.edu
Website: http://polisci.lsa.umich.edu/faculty/wmebane.html


Research Interests

Methods, Formal Modeling, American Government and Politics, Political Economy, Political Behavior

Courses Taught

Political Science 389
Political Science 787
Political Science 688
Political Science 794
Statistics 412

Education

Ph.D. Yale University, 1985
B.A. Harvard University, 1979


Selected Publications

Mebane Walter. (2008) Election Forensics: The Second-digit Benford's Law Test and Recent American Presidential Elections. In R. Michael Alvarez, Thad E. Hall and Susan D. Hyde, eds., Election Fraud: Detecting and Deterring Electoral Manipulation. Washington, DC: Brookings Press 162-181.

Mebane Walter & Jasjeet S. Sekhon. (2004) Robust Estimation and Outlier Detection for Overdispersed Multinomial Models of Count Data. American Journal of Political Science 48 (April): 392--411

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