Case Summary

A shareholder's suit against a major service firm went to mediation. A key factual issue concerned the regression analysis applied to characterize a break in the statistical "time series" of the firm's stock prices.

Statisticians may be most useful when there are no statistics. Yes, you read that correctly. One such example is a case of alleged age discrimination.

A Police Department posed the following question to Analysis & Inference: are similar answers on a promotion exam coincidences, or did they establish cheating by a defendant and another officer?

A Hispanic police officer alleged race discrimination by a Police Department in assignments made to the "Spare List," a list of officers available to cover for other officers out for vacation, sickness, or police special events.

A local agency of the state Department of Social Services charged a youth with improper conduct towards a neighborhood girl.

A nationally-recognized engineering firm asked Analysis & Inference to document the underpinnings in the theory of probability that supported an important line of service for large industrial customers.

A new Cadillac franchise was opening near an existing Cadillac dealer. State regulation permitted the dealer to challenge General Motor's right to grant the franchise, given its proximity of less than five miles.

The National Science Foundation awarded Analysis & Inference two consecutive grants to find new statistical methods for classifying risks taken on by insurers.

General Dynamics owns a shipyard, nearly three-quarters of which is located in Quincy, Massachusetts. In 1976 Quincy's Board of Assessors increased the property's assessment by approximately two-thirds.

New York City purchased over a hundred million dollars’ worth of new garbage trucks. Upon fielding the trucks, the city discovered that they were packing fewer tons of garbage than expected.

A state ran afoul of a federal audit when, for several months, the customary sample of social workers' time use was not collected due to a transition in the state department.

In a itigation matter involving a global engineering & construction firm and one of the world's largest energy companies, A&I was asked to determine the probability of bolts failing along an undersea pipeline, causing oil or gas leaks.

Estimating national and state sales for a class of products required models using biased data.

In a case of stolen parking collections, the City considered the contractor responsible.

A European manufacturer of implanted medical devices learned of premature failures of one of its products after implantation.

NHTSA made an initial determination that there was a safety-related defect in the rear axles of some Saturn cars manufactured by General Motors.

We were asked: "How many members of a certified class in a class action is it necessary to sample in order to get a good estimate of total overtime hours due?"

The Commissioner of Human Resources for New York City was sued in a class action on behalf of aliens living in the city, who alleged unlawful denial of social services for which they were eligible.

A major manufacturer made product liability insurance claims covering millions of dollars in health claims arising from the use of its products.

A federal agency alleged that a state Blue Cross Blue Shield organization had benefited improperly from their dual role as administrator of federal Medicaid insurance and private health insurance provider.

When the several owners of the major categories of retransmitted programming are unable to agree on a division of royalties, they submit their claims before the arbitrators.

The Office of the Attorney General of the State of New York asked Analysis & Inference to take a lead consulting role in its negotiations with the Yonkers School Board.

When ABC unveiled "The Greatest American Hero" TV series the copyright owners of "Superman" concluded that the show's main character bore more than a coincidental resemblance to Superman.

When a class action against New York City Public Schools challenged the timely delivery of special subsidized education services for eligible pre-school children, New York City asked Analysis & Inference to examine the matter.