Research

Published papers

• Kennedy, L. A. & Gelman, A. (2021). Know your population and know your model: Using
  model-based regression and poststratification to generalize findings beyond the observed sample. Psychological Methods

• Gao, Y., Kennedy, L. A., Simpson, D. & Gelman, A. (2021). Improving multilevel regression
  and poststratification with structured priors. Bayesian Analysis

• Kennedy, L. A., Simpson, D & Gelman, A. (2019) The experiment is just as important as the
  likelihood in understanding the prior: A cautionary note on robust cognitive modelling. Computational Brain & Behavior

• Langsford, S., Perfors, A., Hendrickson, A. T., Kennedy, L. A. & Navarro, D. J. (2018), Quantify-
  ing sentence acceptability measures: Reliability, bias and variability. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics.

• Kennedy, L. A., Navarro, D. J., Perfors, A. & Briggs, N. (2017), Not every credible interval
  is credible: Evaluating robustness in the presence of contamination in Bayesian data analysis.
  Behavior Research Methods, 49(6), 2219-2234

Preprints

• Wang, X., Kennedy, L. & Chen, Q. (2023). Improving Survey Inference in Two-phase Designs Using Bayesian Machine Learning
  https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.04119

• Gelman, A. & Kennedy, L. (2023). Causal quartets: Different ways to attain the same average treatment effect. http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/unpublished/causal_quartets.pdf

• Cooper, A., Simpson, D., Kennedy, L., Forbes, C. & Vehtari, A (2023). Cross-validatory model selection for Bayesian autoregressions with exogenous regressors. arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.08276.

• Kuh, S., Kennedy, L. Chen, Q. & Gelman, A. (2022). Using leave-one-out cross-validation (LOO) in a multilevel regression and poststratification (MRP) workflow: A cautionary tale https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.01773

• Gao, A., Kennedy, L., Gelman, A. (2021) Treatment effect estimation with Multilevel Regression and Poststratification https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.10003

• Kennedy, L., Khanna, K., Simpson, D., Gelman, A. (2022). Using Sex and Gender in Survey
  Adjustment https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.14401

• Kolczynska, M., B ̈urkner, P. C., Kennedy, L., Vehtari, A. (2022). Trust in state institutions in
  Europe, 1989-2019. https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/3v5g7/

• Gelman, A. Vehtari, A. Simpson, D. Margossian, C., Carpenter, B. Yao, Y., Kennedy, L., Gabry,
  J., B ̈urkner, P.C., Modr ́ak, M. Bayesian Workflow https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.01808

Software

• mrpkit (2021) Package to run an efficient MRP workflow. Code is available via Github

Other, non peer-reviewed publications

• Kennedy, L. A. (2021). Statistics Using R: An Integrative Approach, by Weinberg, S. L.,
  Harel, D. and Abramowitz, S. K. ( Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 692, 2020)
  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1475-4932.12616 (Book Review)

• Neckerman, K., Brooks-Gunn, J., Doran, E., Kennedy, L. A., Maury, M., Waldfogel, J. & Wimer,
  C. (2019) The youngest New Yorkers: The early childhood poverty tracker.

• Kennedy, L. A. (2019), Using Rstanarm to conduct Multilevel Regression and Poststratification.
  A vignette.https://github.com/lauken13/rstanarm/blob/master/vignettes/mrp.Rmd

• Wimer, C. Collyer, S., Garfinkel, I., Kennedy, L. A., Maury, M., Neckerman, K., Teitler, J. &
  Waldfogel, J. (2018) Poverty Tracker Report: The state of poverty and disadvantage in New York City.

• Kennedy, L. A. & Gelman, A. (2018) Year 15 Fragile Families Survey Weight Adjustment https:
  //fragilefamilies.princeton.edu/sites/fragilefamilies/files/ff_const_wgtsy15.pdf