Case studies from A&I projects show how statistics are used to address business, regulatory and legal issues.
How do you recover stolen cash when you don’t know how much was stolen? A&I uses available and relevant data to provide an estimate supported by federal District and Appeals courts.
Read More +When a client faces a class action suit, a statistician creates a protocol, establishes key criteria and uses sampling to determine how many plaintiffs actually represent the class.
Read More +A&I trains a statistical algorithm to correctly identify customer payments lacking personal or account data as payments for services rendered.
Read More +A&I looks beyond engineering reports of potential nuclear power plant accidents to deliver a “market-based view” of the risk as revealed by insurance premiums plant operators pay.
Read More +Identifying a critical statistical bias in the way the Department of Health & Human Services unfairly penalizes states for errors in determining Medicaid eligibility and payments.
Read More +A principal of A&I replaces an incorrectly applied model with a proper statistical test to expose flaws in statistical proof of discrimination.
Read More +A&I’s analysis of an auditor’s estimate of alleged Medicare overcharging reveals bias in the form of faulty sampling and an inaccurate formula for calculating overcharges.
Read More +A&I’s review of an engineer’s report reveals a failure to randomly sample damages; a new statistical model accurately predicts a much lower rate of damages.
Read More +Faced with a biased environmental test procedure, quantitative analysis and industry experience determine if a client should invest in additional testing to earn a designation as clean fill.
Read More +Dr. William Huber of A&I led a team of statisticians, economists, and database engineers in modeling, analyzing, predicting, and mapping availability of high-speed broadband services throughout the United States.
Read More +Statistical errors identified by Dr. William Huber of A&I led to a summary judgment on behalf of a defendant in natural resources damages litigation.
Read More +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.
Read More +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.
Read More +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?
Read More +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.
Read More +A local agency of the state Department of Social Services charged a youth with improper conduct towards a neighborhood girl.
Read More +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.
Read More +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.
Read More +The National Science Foundation awarded Analysis & Inference two consecutive grants to find new statistical methods for classifying risks taken on by insurers.
Read More +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.
Read More +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.
Read More +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.
Read More +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.
Read More +Estimating national and state sales for a class of products required models using biased data.
Read More +In a case of stolen parking collections, the City considered the contractor responsible.
Read More +A European manufacturer of implanted medical devices learned of premature failures of one of its products after implantation.
Read More +NHTSA made an initial determination that there was a safety-related defect in the rear axles of some Saturn cars manufactured by General Motors.
Read More +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?"
Read More +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.
Read More +A major manufacturer made product liability insurance claims covering millions of dollars in health claims arising from the use of its products.
Read More +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.
Read More +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.
Read More +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.
Read More +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.
Read More +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.
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