Elizabeth Tipton

Elizabeth Tipton

Professor of Statistics and Data Science
Northwestern University
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research

I develop methods for designing studies and for building evidence that decision-makers can use.

Recently
  • Apr 2026 What schools want vs. what evidence can deliver — PIER seminar, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
  • 2025 Elected to the National Academy of Education.
  • 2025 Designing Small Evaluation Studies, with Larry Hedges — Sage.

tipton@northwestern.edu
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Teaching

Design judgment over mechanical computation

Courses marked ★ are ones I proposed and built.

Northwestern University

  • 328Causal InferenceWinter 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 · substantially revised for Winter 2027
  • ★ 353Advanced RegressionSpring 2022 · Winter 2023, 2024, 2026
  • ★ 359Statistics and SocietyWinter 2026 · history of statistics, eugenics, algorithmic fairness, federal statistics, ethics
  • ★ 429Meta-AnalysisWinter 2024
  • 519Responsible Conduct of ResearchWinter 2019–2024
  • 202Introduction to StatisticsFall 2018, 2019, 2020

Teachers College, Columbia University

  • 5122Applied Regression Analysis2011–2017
  • ★ 5126Linear Models and Regression AnalysisFall 2013, 2014, 2015
  • ★ 5130Meta-Analysis2013, 2015, 2017
  • ★ 5133Causal Inference for Program Evaluation2014
  • ★ 5250Statistical Careers, Communication, and Capstone2016–2017

Training institutes

  • 2024–27A Summer RCT Institute for Established ResearchersIES training grant, with Larry Hedges
  • 2022–25Meta-Analysis Training InstituteIES training grant, with Terri Pigott and Tasha Beretvas
  • 2019–25Improving Evaluations of R&D in STEM EducationNSF training grant, with Larry Hedges