Publications

Sociology and statistics

  1. von Hippel, P.T. (forthcoming). "Achievement, Learning, and Seasonal Impact as Measures of School Effectiveness: It’s Better To Be Valid Than Reliable." School Effectiveness and School Improvement.
  2. Downey, D.B., von Hippel, P.T., & Hughes, M.M. (2008). "Are 'Failing' Schools Really Failing? Removing the Influence of Non-School Influences from Measures of School Quality." Sociology of Education.
  3. von Hippel, P.T. (2007). “ Regression with Missing Ys: An Improved Strategy for Analyzing Multiply-Imputed Data.” Sociological Methodology, 37(1).*

    4. *Clifford Clogg Award for year's best methodological paper by a graduate student. Methodology Section, American Sociological Association, 2007.

  4. von Hippel, P.T., Powell, B., Downey, D.B., & Rowland, N. (2007). “The Effect of School on Overweight in Childhood: Gains in children’s body mass index during the school year and during summer vacation.” American Journal of Public Health 97(4), 796-802.
  5. von Hippel, P.T. (2005). " Mean, Median, and Skew: Correcting a Textbook Rule." Journal of Statistics Education, 13(2).
  6. von Hippel, P.T. (2005). "How Many Imputations Are Needed? A Comment on Hershberger and Fisher (2003)." Structural Equation Modeling, 12(2), 334-335.
  7. Downey, D.B., von Hippel, P.T., and Broh, B. (2004). "Are Schools the Great Equalizer? School and Non-School Sources of Inequality in Cognitive Skills." American Sociological Review, 69(5), 613-635.*

    8. *William Waller Award for best education paper in the past three years. Sociology of Education section, American Sociological Association, 2005.

  8. von Hippel, P.T. (2004). " Biases in SPSS 12.0 Missing Value Analysis." The American Statistician 58(2), 160-164.
  9. von Hippel, P.T. (2004). "School Accountability [a comment on Kane and Staiger (2002)]." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 18(2), 275-276.
  10. von Hippel, P.T. (2003). Four articles in Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods (Lewis-Beck, Bryman, and Liao, eds.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
    1. "Critical value."
    2. "Difference of proportions."
    3. "Expected value."
    4. "Normalization."
  11. von Hippel, P.T. (2003). "Chava Frankfort-Nachmias & Anna Leon-Guerrerro: Social statistics for a diverse society [review of the book]." Teaching Sociology 31(1), 128-129.

Music

  1. von Hippel, P.T. (2006). "Jan Beran: Statistics in musicology [review of the book]." Empirical Musicology Review, 1(1).
  2. von Hippel, P.T. & Aarden, B.J.(2004). "Rules for chord doubling (and spacing): A reply to Wibberley." Music Theory Online, 10.3.
  3. Aarden, B.J., & von Hippel, P.T. (2004). " Rules for chord doubling (and spacing): Which ones do we need?" Music Theory Online, 10.2.
  4. Hunter, D.J., & von Hippel, P.T. (2003). "How rare is symmetry in musical 12-tone rows?" American Mathematical Monthly, 110(2), 124-132.
  5. von Hippel, P.T. (2002). "Melodic-expectation rules as learned heuristics." Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Sydney, Australia.
  6. von Hippel, P. (2000). "Questioning a melodic archetype: Do listeners use gap-fill to classify melodies? ." Music Perception 18(2), 139-153.
  7. von Hippel, P., & Huron, D. (2000). "Why do skips precede reversals? The effect of tessitura on melodic structure." Music Perception 18(1), 59-85. [Also summarized in the Electronic Encyclopedia of Statistical Exercises and Examples.]
  8. von Hippel, P. (2000). "Redefining pitch proximity: Tessitura and mobility as constraints on melodic intervals." Music Perception 17(3), 315-327.
  9. von Hippel, P. (2000). "Jerrold Levinson: Music in the moment [review of the book]." Music Analysis, 19(1), 136-143.

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Unpublished papers on teaching statistics

  1. von Hippel, P.T. "Why do students fail social statistics?"
  2. von Hippel, P.T. "Customizable tables of p values for teaching the t, F, and chi-square distributions."

Selected conference abstracts

  1. von Hippel, P.T. & Alonzo, J.J. (2005, December 28). "Alternative Careers for PhDs and Graduate Students: Opportunities in High-School Education." Washington DC: Modern Languages Association.

Journalism

  1. von Hippel, P.T. (2004, October 7). "Tweedledum and Tweedledee [on Ralph Nader]." The Gadflyer, reprinted on Alternet.
  2. von Hippel, P.T. (2004, October 20). "Poor-Mouthing [on Malpractice Insurance]." The Gadflyer.
  3. von Hippel, P.T. (2005, January 17). "Civil Rights, Brought To You By...Republicans?" The Gadflyer, reprinted on Alternet.