About
You can obtain my curriculum vitae and other details from this page.
Robert W. Walker is an Associate Professor of Quantitative Methods in the Atkinson Graduate School of Management at Willamette University
He earned a Ph. D. in political science from the University of Rochester in 2005 and has previously held teaching positions at Dartmouth College, Rice University, Texas A&M University, and Washington University in Saint Louis. His current research develops and applies semi-Markov processes to time-series, cross-section data in international relations and international/comparative political economy. He teaches courses in quantitative methods/applied statistics and microeconomic strategy and previously taught four iterations in the U. S. National Science Foundation funded Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models sequence at Washington University in Saint Louis. His work with Curt Signorino and Muhammet Bas was awarded the Miller Prize for the best article in Political Analysis in 2009.
His web presence is robertwwalker.work and his github is https://github.com/robertwwalker.
Warren Miller Prize
With Curt Signorino and Muhammet Bas, I was awarded the Warren Miller Prize for Statistical Backwards Induction —- recognizing the finest contribution to Political Analysis – with a deployment of resampling and standard logistic regression tools.
PhD Political Science (2005)
University of Rochester
MA Political Science (2002)
University of Rochester
BA Post-Soviet and East European Studies (1995)
University of Texas at Austin
Страноведение России (1994)
Московский государственный лингвистический университет
Robert’s Erdos-Bacon Number is 8.
Erdos Number 4
Bacon Number 4
Affiliation
Atkinson Graduate School of Management
Willamette University
Salem, Oregon