Richard Berk
Professor of Statistics and Criminology
University of Pennsylvania

berkr@wharton.upenn.edu

CV (Updated 3/1/2011)

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Groucho Marx


When you wish upon a falling star, your dreams can come true.
Unless it's really a meteorite hurtling to the Earth which will destroy all life.
Then you're pretty much out of luck no matter what you wish for.

Anonymous

Some Recent Working Papers

Statistical Inference After Model Selection
When Second Best Is Good Enough: A Comparison Between A True Experiment and a Regression Discontinuity Quasi-Experiment
The Dynamics of Crime Regimes
Small Area Estimation of the Homeless in Los Angeles: An Application of Cost-Sensitive Stochastic Gradient Boosting
Profiling Consumer Safety Violations and Violators
The Role of Race in Forecasts of Violent Crime
Policing the Homeless: An Evaluation of Efforts to Reduce Homeless-Related Crime
Asymmetric Loss Functions for Forecasting in Criminal Justice Settings
What You Can and Can't Properly Do with Regression
Balancing the Costs of Forecasting Errors in Parole Decicions
Valid Post-Selection Inference