Statistical Analysis Inc.

EDUCATION:

            Ph.D.  Statistics         1961-1964       Stanford University

            M.S.    Mathematics    1952-1954       University of Southern California

            B.A.    Physics            1947-1950       New York University

            -  -      Physics            1950-1951       University of Minnesota

FORENSIC CONSULTING AND TESTIFYING

Testimony Experience—from Jan. 1, 2000 to present.

Dr. Press has been involved with forensic statistical consulting since 1980.   Prior to Jan. 1, 2000 he was deposed perhaps 35 times, and testified in court about 5 or 6 times.  Since Jan. 1, 2000 he has been retained in some 40 cases, of which 22 were constructive defect cases.  In these 40 cases he was deposed as an expert statistician 10 times, and he testified in court two times.   The remaining cases settled.  He testified in Federal Court in December, 2007 to help support the case of alleged medicare fraud by a home care agency.  His allegation that the method used by Medicare was inappropriate in this case drove the court to accept his opposition and to leave it to him to suggest an alternative.  This is due mid-January, 2008.

He gave a deposition for the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census as an expert statistician in a lawsuit demanding adjustment of the 1990 census (the lawsuit involved trying to shrink the US undercount; June, 1989).

Listed in the Parker Directory of California Attorneys, Vol. II,

(see our ad for Statistical Analysis Inc. in the Expert Witnesses portion of the volume)).

Types of Cases/Types of Consulting

•       Gave depositions and testified regarding scientific extrapolation of damages in a sample of homes in a housing complex to the entire population of homes (perhaps 35 or 40 times).  Designed appropriate sampling for destructive testing of homes in housing complexes; designed appropriate sampling techniques for sampling the bills of a supermarket chain.

•       Worked on wrongful termination cases involving age, gender, race, and other factors, stock fraud cases, real estate disputes, alleged medicare fraud cases, contract disputes, alleged discrimination against low income people in housing, pharmaceutical company issues, telecommunication issues, construction defects in housing, damages from lead poisoning, utility company disputes, personal injury cases, and wages and hours cases for hourly employees.

•       Gave "expert depositions", "expert testimony" in court, and "expert testimony" at judicial hearings.

•        Designed audits to estimate the extent of liability and worker compensation claims.

•      Prepared paper commissioned by California State Board of Equalization on the best way to assess a corporate taxpayer’s tax liability on the basis of a sample audit.

•       Helped in many cases to suggest case strategy, and used statistical analysis of various types to evaluate damages and to establish issues in the case.

•       Established favorable and unfavorable juror profiles in many cases by using best judgment, focus groups, and mock trials.

•       Gave deposition for the US Bureau of the Census, Dept. of Commerce, in federal case involving dispute with the states and large cities over the issue of whether to use sampling in the 1990 census to correct for the anticipated undercount of mostly minority groups

EXPERIENCE:

1980 - present   Expert witness for statistical analysis, statistical analysis of a wide variety of case types, and mock jury arranger for litigation support

1977 - 2005       Professor---Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Statistics; University of California, Riverside, and Statistician, Agricultural Experiment Station; and Cooperating Faculty Member—Department of Electrical Engineering, Engineering School; University of California, Riverside (served as Chairman for seven years). Also taught at Yale University, University of British Columbia, London School of Economics and Political Science, University College London, and UCLA School of Management

1966 - 1996       Statistical consultant to The Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, CA

1964 - 1966       The Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, CA.  Statistics, Econometrics, Operations Research, Management Science

1954-1961         Douglas Aircraft Corporation, Santa Monica, CA.  Statistical Analysis, Reliability, Operations Research

                        1951-1954       Northrop Aircraft Company, Hawthorne, CA.  Statistical Control and Information Theory

                        1949-1950       Brookhaven National Laboratories, Upton, NY,  Cosmic Ray Physics, Microscopy, Atomic Energy Commission

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

American Association for the Advancement of Science (Elected Fellow, January,  1981)

American Statistical Association (Elected Fellow, August 1974)

Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Probability

Biometric Society

International Statistical Institute (Elected, December 1979)

Institute of Mathematical Statistics (Elected Fellow, 1981)

New York Academy of Sciences (Elected, March 1979)

Royal Statistical Society (Elected Fellow, 1971)

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

• Former Chairman of the American Statistical Association’s Committee on Law and Justice Statistics (1977-1985)

• Led various statistical studies of civil and criminal issues carried out for the US Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) of the US Department of Justice under a grant to the American Statistical Association

• Chair (and Founder)---Section on “Bayesian Statistical Science”, of the American Statistical Association (1994).

• Ran for president of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis.

• Associate Editor--Journal of the American Statistical Association - Theory and Methods

• Member--Committee on National Statistics, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences  (1986-1992).

• Member--Panel on Foreign Trade Statistics for the Committee of National Statistics of National Academy of Sciences  (1989-1992).

• Member--Panel on “Quality Control of Student Financial Aid Programs”, of the Committee on National Statistics of the National Academy of Sciences  (1991-1993).

• Member--Panel on Quality Control of Family Assistance Programs, Chairman of one of three subcommittees, Committee on National Statistics of the National Academy of Sciences  (1986-1988).

• Member--Panel on Cognitive Aspects of Sample Survey Design, Committee on National Statistics  (1983-1984).

• Reviewer--For numerous professional journals in statistics in the United States, the United Kingdom, Brazil, and other countries, in econometrics, psychometrics, management science, operations research, business, finance, biometrics; also reviewer for the National Science Foundation, the National Research Council of Canada, external examiner and evaluator for students and faculty at other universities, and reviewer for the National Institutes of Health.

• Lecturer--Have presented lectures on statistics at many universities in the United States, and in many other countries including:  Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China (People’s Republic), England, France, India, Japan, Korea, Mexico, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan and The Philippines.

• Instructor in China Presented short course on Bayesian Statistics to graduate students and faculty members of Department of Statistics of People’s University of China in Beijing, People’s Republic of China (September 1990), Sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences and the World Bank.

• Lecturer--Presented lectures at many universities and research institutes in South Africa, and presented keynote address at annual meeting of South African Statistical Society (November 1989), Republic of South Africa, Assisted in evaluation of statistics research in South Africa.

HONORS AND RESEARCH GRANT AWARDS:

• Selected by the Epidemiology and Biostatistics  Department of Loma Linda University to consult with them weekly on research grant entitled, “The Effects Of Air Pollution on Cardiovascular Disease”  (3 years—2003-2005)

• Co-Principal Investigator on grant from University of California System-wide Biotechnology  Research and Education Program-“Diagnostic Analysis of Microbial Communities”, July 1, 2000-June 30, 2002 ($209, 251)

• Fellowship Award from the American Statistical Association, National Science Foundation and the U.S. Census Bureau for research on recall in sample surveys, to work at Census Bureau during sabbatical (1997 - 1998).

• Associate on grant awarded to UCR College of Engineering (August 1996) “Learning Integrated Visual Databases for Image Exploitation”, $2 million for five years. 

• Awarded travel grant from National Science Foundation for two years on bilateral  research grant with Brazil to visit with collaborator,  R. Klein, to carry out joint research on remote sensing and spatial statistics. 

• Principal Investigator for NSF Grant No. DMS-8922706, “Multivariate Bayesian Classification Methods in Spatial Statistics”.  (4/1/90 - 3/31/92).

• Invited by the All Soviet and the Lithuanian Academies of Sciences: spent one month in the Soviet Union and Lithuania in July 1991.   Awarded travel grant from U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

• Principal Investigator for project, “Modeling the Probability that Californians Adopt Residential Energy Research Conservation Practices”, grant supported by the University-wide Energy Research Group, University of California (1984-1985).

• National Research Council of Canada Grants for Research in Multivariate Statistical Analysis (1975-1976 and 1976-1978).

• National Science Foundation Grant as Principal Investigator for research on “Methodology Problems in Econometrics and the Social Sciences  (1974-1975).

• Honorary Research Fellow, University College London, and the London School of Economics and Political Science (1970-1971).

• Selected by the University of Chicago and the Agency for International Development to visit India to study plans for graduate management education in India  (1967).

PUBLISHED PAPERS

Dr. Press has published about 175 refereed articles in professional scientific journals; see complete c.v. for details.

BOOKS/ MONOGRAPHS/

Applied Multivariate Analysis:  Using Bayesian and Frequentist Methods of Inference, Second Edition Revised—Re-published by Dover Publications, 2005.

Subjective and Objective Bayesian Statistics: Principals, Models, and Applications, 2003, Second Edition, New York: John Wiley and Sons.

The Subjectivity of Scientists and the Bayesian Approach, with Judith M. Tanur, 2001, New York: John Wiley and Sons.

Bayesian Statistics:  Principles, Models, and Applications (1989), New York: John Wiley and Sons.

Applied Multivariate Analysis.  Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.  Copyright, 1972;  521 pp.

Applied Multivariate Analysis:  Using Bayesian and Frequentist Methods of Inference, Second Edition Revised. Melbourne, FL: Krieger Publishing Co., 1982, 600 pp.

Applied Multivariate Analysis, translated into Taiwanese Chinese, published in Taiwan.  Fall, 1984.

Bayesian Statistics, translated into People’s Republic of China Chinese, published in People’s Republic of China, 1991.

Univariate and Multivariate Log-Linear and Logistic Models, with M. Nerlove, Santa Monica, CA:  The Rand Corporation, R-1306, December 1973, 134 pp.

Some Effects of an Increase in Police Manpower in 20th Precinct of New York City, R-704,

The New York City - Rand Institute, New York, October 1971, 158 pp.

Methodology for Subjective Assessment of Technological Advancement, R-1375, Santa Monica, CA:  The Rand Corporation, April 1975, 104 pp.

A Research Proposal on Jury Behavior in Canada, June 1976, submitted to the National Research Council of Canada, 200 pp.

Behind the Numbers, 1992, coauthor.  Panel on Foreign Trade Statistics, Committee on National Statistics, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences Press.

Quality in Student Financial Aid Program: A New Approach (coauthor), edited by R. Fecso.  Committee on National Statistics, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences Press, 1993.

Edited Books

Bayesian and Likelihood Methods in Statistics and Econometrics:  Essays in Honor of George A. Barnard (1990).  New York:  North Holland Pub. Co., 1989, edited by S. Geisser, J. Hodges, S.J. Press, and A. Zellner.

Contributions to Probability and Statistics:  Essays in Honor of Ingram Olkin’s 65th Birthday. (1989).  New York: Springer Verlag, edited by L. Gleser, M. Perlman, S.J. Press, and A. Sampson.

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