Expert No. 8816 – CA(S)
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Expertise Description: Ph.D. - Distinguished Professor of Statistics at a University of California school with over 40 years of experience in research and applied statistics, specializing in legal support including: construction defect analysis; sampling and sample survey problems; discrimination issues; experimental design; drug comparisons; statistical analysis of testing procedures; damages and liability assessment (loss of profits, reasonable royalty, fair market value, structured settlements, lost earnings / benefits, costs of care / rehabilitation, change of venue surveys, community attitude surveys, name bias); valuations (corporations, intellectual property, stock options, pension funds, patented processes and inventions); and focus groups (marketing, jury research, public issues). Expert witness available for analysis, deposition, and in-court testimony.
Areas of Expertise:
Representative Litigation Experience:
- forensic statistics consulting
- constructive defect
- demand of adjustment of the U.S. census, involved trying to shrink the U.S. undercount
- wrongful termination cases involving gender, race, age and other factors
- stock fraud
- real estate disputes
- alleged medicaid fraud cases
- contract disputes
- alleged discrimination against low income people in housing
- pharmaceutical company issues
- damages from asbestos
- oil company and utility company disputes
- personal injury
- wages and house cases for hourly employees
- scientific extrapolation of damages in a sample of homes in a housing complex to the entire population of homes
Representative Consulting Services and/or Projects:
- designed appropriate sampling for destructive testing of homes in housing complexes
- designed audits to estimate the extent of liability and worker compensation claims
- prepared paper commissioned by the California State Board of Equalization on the best way to assess a corporate taxpayer's tax liability on the basis of a sample audit
Education:
| Degree | Subject | Institution | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ph.D. | Statistics | Stanford University | |
| M.S. | Mathematics | University of Southern California | |
| B.A. | Physics | New York University | |
| Physics | University of Minnesota |
Professional Appointment/Association Affiliations:
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- American Statistical Association
- Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Probability
- Biometric Society
- International Statistical Institute
- Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- New York Academy of Sciences
- Royal Statistical Society
Awards & Honors:
| Fellowship Award from the American Statistical Association, National Science Foundation |
| Associate on grant awarded to UCR College of Engineering |
| Awarded travel grant from national Science Foundation for two years on bilateral research |
Other Career Highlights:
| Published 175 refereed articles in professional scientific journals |
| Book "Bayesian Statistics: Principles, Models, and Applications" |
| Book "Applied Multivariate Analysis" |
