George W. Bohrnstedt

George William Bohrnstedt (born September 28, 1938, Arcadia, WI) is an American sociologist, statistician, and education researcher.

Biography Bohrnstedt received his PhD from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1966 under the supervision of Edgar F. Borgatta. He spent most of his 20-year academic career at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and Indiana University-Bloomington and was chair of the Department of Sociology at both universities.

One of his statistics articles "On the exact covariance of products of random variables" (with Arthur S. Goldberger) which appeared in the Journal of the American Statistical Association has been cited in research articles in areas as diverse as psychology, chemistry, electrical engineering, forestry, operations research, and genetics.

His textbook Statistics for Social Data Analysis co-authored with David Knoke (and Alicia Potter Mee for the 4th edition) is widely cited and was used in the teaching of upper level first year graduate level statistics courses. He also co-edited Sociological Methodology: 1969 with Edgar F. Borgatta) and the two of them were also the founding editors of Sociological Methods and Research a popular traditional band that regularly played venues in the Madison, Milwaukee, and Lake Geneva areas of Wisconsin in the 1960s.