Shane T. Jensen

Professor of Statistics and Data Science

Contact Information

Primary Email:
stjensen@wharton.upenn.edu
Office Phone:
(215) 573-2211

office Address:
415 Academic Research Building
265 South 37th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Research Interests: bayesian multi-level modeling, spatial statistics, urban analytics, statistics in sports

Links: CV

Overview

Research

Desen Lin, Shane T. Jensen, Susan Wachter (2023), The price effects of greening vacant lots: how neighborhood attributes matter, Real Estate Economics, 51 (), pp. 573-610.
J. Cui, Shane T. Jensen, J. Macdonald (2022), The effects of vacant lot greening and the impact of land use and business presence on crime, Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 49 (), pp. 1147-1158.
J. Macdonald, Viet Nguyen, Shane T. Jensen, C.C. Branas (2022), Reducing crime by remediating vacant lots: the moderating effect of nearby land uses, Journal of Experimental Criminology, 18 (), pp. 639-644.
T. Tran, W. Tanner Porter, D.J. Salkald, M.A. Prusinki, Shane T. Jensen, Dustin Brisson (2021), Estimating disease vector population size from Citizen Science data, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 18 (20210610).
Colman Humphrey, Shane T. Jensen, Dylan Small, Rachel Thurston (2020), Analysis of urban vibrancy and safety in Philadelphia, Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 47 (), pp. 1573-1587.
Cecilia Balocchi and Shane T. Jensen (2019), Spatial modeling of trends in crime over time in Philadelphia, Annals of Applied Statistics, 13 (4), pp. 2235-2259.
Jose Marcio Luna, Efstathios D. Gennatas, Lyle H. Ungar, Eric Eaton, Eric S. Diffenderfer, Shane T. Jensen, Charles B. Simone II, Jerome H. Friedman, Timothy D. Solberg, Gilmer Valdes (2019), Building more accurate decision trees with the additive tree, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116 (40), pp. 19887-19893.
Colman Humphrey, Dylan Small, Shane T. Jensen, Kevin Volpp, David A. Asch, Jingsan Zhu, Andrea B. Troxel (2019), Modeling Lottery Incentives for Daily Adherence, Statistics in Medicine, 38 (15), pp. 2847-2867.
Namita Nandakumar and Shane T. Jensen (2019), Historical Perspectives and Current Directions in Hockey Analytics, Annual Review of Statistics and Its Applications, 6 (), pp. 19-36.
Gilmer Valdes, Albert J. Chang, Yannet Interian, Kenton Owens, Shane T. Jensen, Lyle Ungar, Adam Cunha, Timothy D. Solberg, I-Chow Hsu (2018), Salvage HDR Brachytherapy: Multiple Hypothesis Testing Versus Machine Learning Analysis, International Journal of Radiation Oncology - Biology - Physics, 101 (3), pp. 694-703.

Awards and Honors

JASA Reproducibility Award, 2023 Description
American Statistical Association
Wharton Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award, 2021
Wharton Teaching Excellence Award, 2020
Wharton Teaching Excellence Award, 2019
SABR Analytics Conference Research Award in Contemporary Baseball Analysis, 2016 Description
for the paper “OpenWAR: an open source system for evaluating overall player performance in major league baseball.”
Sports in Statistics Award for Contributions to the Statistics in Sports Community, American Statistical Association, 2011
David W. Hauck Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, The Wharton School, 2009
Leonard J. Savage Award for best thesis in Application Methodology from the International Society for Bayesian Analysis, 2005

In the News

Knowledge at Wharton

The Physics of Baseball With Alan Nathan, Knowledge at Wharton - 7/16/2025
Using Data to Model NBA Performance With Seth Partnow, Knowledge at Wharton - 7/2/2025
Recapping the U.S. Open With Daniel Rapaport, Knowledge at Wharton - 6/18/2025
Latest With the NBA Finals With Ben Alamar, Knowledge at Wharton - 6/11/2025
Tennis & Player Fatigue, Knowledge at Wharton - 6/4/2025
NBA Playoffs With Dean Oliver, Knowledge at Wharton - 5/28/2025
Golf Analytics & Modeling With Ron Yurko, Knowledge at Wharton - 5/21/2025
NBA Playoffs With Seth Partnow, Knowledge at Wharton - 5/7/2025
NFL Draft Strategy With Kevin Cole, Knowledge at Wharton - 4/30/2025
Major League Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher John Smoltz, Knowledge at Wharton - 4/23/2025

Wharton Stories

How to Use Big Data to Make Cities Safer, Wharton Stories - 04/09/2018

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Latest Research

Desen Lin, Shane T. Jensen, Susan Wachter (2023), The price effects of greening vacant lots: how neighborhood attributes matter, Real Estate Economics, 51 (), pp. 573-610.

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The Physics of Baseball With Alan Nathan

Professor emeritus of physics at University of Illinois discusses baseball bat construction and the HR Derby.…Read More

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Changing the Game

Wharton Magazine - 10/20/2023

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How to Use Big Data to Make Cities Safer

How can we use publicly available data to understand what makes a city neighborhood safe? To answer this question, Shane Jensen and Dylan Small, Professors in Wharton’s Statistics Department, are using their skills in big data to reveal patterns of crime and safety in the city. Jonathan Wood, a WSII…

Wharton Stories - 04/09/2018

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