Analysis & Inference, Inc. provides authoritative statistical and consulting services nationwide to corporations, government agencies, law firms, and other organizations. A&I is allied with Quantitative Analysis of New York City (www.qanalysiscorp.com).
Dr. Fairley is skilled at presenting complex ideas to non-experts.
Statistical expertise includes: regression analysis, sampling and research design, reliability and validity, statistical significance, modeling and estimation, probability and risk analysis, data mining and analysis, quality control, and forecasting and time series.
Practice areas include: commercial litigation and damages; discrimination, labor, and employment; insurance and healthcare; real estate; telecommunications; theft and fraud; product liability and accidents; public policy and education; surveys and audits.
Background
Q: Please list your professional accreditations, degrees, licenses, and certificates granted:A: Harvard University (1961-1967), Ph.D., Department of Statistics, 1968; M.A., 1965; Woodrow Wilson and National Science Foundation Fellowships.
London School of Economics (1960-1961), Fulbright Fellowship.
Swarthmore College (1957-1960), B.A. with High Honors and Phi Beta Kappa, 1960. Major in Economics, Minors in History and Philosophy.
Q: Please list your affiliations or memberships in any professional and/or industry organizations:
A: Dr. Fairley is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Economic Association, American Statistical Association, and the Society for Risk Analysis. In the American Statistical Association, he is a member of the Sections on Statistical Consulting, Survey Statistics, and Bayesian Statistics. Dr. Fairley was also a member of the Committee on Professional Ethics, 1995 to 1997 and will serve on the Committee on Law and Justice Statistics from 2009 to 2011.
Q: Please list any teaching or speaking experience you have had, including subject matter:
A: Teaching
New York University (1990-91), Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Visiting Professor of Statistics and Operations Research. Subjects: statistics and quality control/management.
Swarthmore College (1990), Department of Mathematics. Visiting Professor. Subject: Mathematical statistics
Temple University (1987-89), Department of Statistics. Adjunct Lecturer. Subject: Statistics
University of Karachi (Spring 1976) Visiting Professor, and consultant, Applied Economics Research Center, Ford Foundation and Government of Pakistan. Subject: statistics of sampling
Harvard University (1970-1976), Kennedy School of Government, Public Policy Program. Statistics in Public Policy and Law. Taught courses on statistics at the Harvard Law School (with Michael Finkelstein, Frederick Mosteller, and Lloyd Weinreb).
New York University (1969-1970), Graduate School of Business. Graduate teaching and research in statistics. Organized and chaired Conference on Quantitative Analysis in Urban Affairs, May 1970; Member of the Committee on Urban Problems.
Speaking
Speaker - International Symposium on Business and Industrial Statistics - 2006 (ISBIS - 2007), August 18-21, 2007, a satellite conference of the International Statistical Institute 2007 Meetings in Lisbon, Portugal, Invited Presentation, "Bootstrap Resampling and Propensity Scores in Statistical Learning, Random Forests, and Bagging to Assign Ownership of Unclaimed Property" (with Marc Sobel and Kenneth Swartz).
Speaker - Invited Presentation to the Winter Gathering of the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Statistical Association, January 26, 2007
Speaker- Consulting Role in Dispute Resolution, invited presentation to the Fall Meeting of the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Statistical Association,. October 9, 2003.
Speaker - Consulting Role in Legal Applications, invited presentation at the 20th Annual Spring Conference sponsored by the Delaware Chapter of the American Statistical Association, Probable Justice: Statistics and the Judiciary, April 25, 2003.
Speaker - Statistics Without Measurements: Promotions and Age in a Police Department, American Statistical Association Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, 2000.
Speaker, Unsupportable Models of Promotion in Age Discrimination, Fourth International Conference on Forensic Statistics, Raleigh, North Carolina, December 1999.
Speaker - Credible Argument: School Finance in a Legal Trial, American Statistical Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, 1999.
Speaker - Case Study of Masonry Deterioration and Civil Damages: Calibration and Poisson Regression, Second International Conference on Forensic Statistics, Tempe, Arizona March 1993.
Speaker - Empirical Bayes Procedures for Welfare Quality Control,î American Statistical Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., 1989.
Invited Lecture Series, Statistics in Law and Public Policy: How to Bet If You Must, Temple University, Department of Statistics, April 1989.
Chair, Estimation for Welfare Quality Control, American Statistical Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 1988.
Speaker - Error Rate and Penalty Inference for Quality Control in Public Welfare Programs, American Statistical Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, August 1987.
Speaker - Estimated Public Welfare Quality Control Error Rates and Penalties, Third Valencia International Meeting on Bayesian Statistics, Altea, Spain, June, 1987.
Speaker - Quantitative Risk Assessment: A Study of DDT, Temple Environmental Forum, Philadelphia, Fall 1986.
Speaker - Decision Uses of Quantitative Risk Assessment, Gordon Research Conference Seminar on Statistics in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, New Hampton School, New Hampshire, July 1985.
Participant, The City of New Amsterdam vs. Armored Coin Collection Company, mock trial presented by The Panel on Statistical Assessments in the Courts, National Academy of Sciences, at American Statistical Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, 1985.
Speaker - Question of Theft, American Statistical Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, August 1984.
Speaker - Probability Model for Brittle Fracture Turbine Reliability, Society for Risk Analysis, Annual Meeting, New York City, August 1983.
Speaker, Market Risk Assessment of Catastrophic Risk, Summer Study in Decision Processes and Institutional Aspects for Risks, International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, Vienna, June 1981.
Speaker - Catastrophic Risks: Case of Zero Occurrences of Accidents, Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Society, Session on Statistics, Reliability and Risks, Houston, Texas, August 13, 1980.
Speaker, Regulatory Rate Setting Decisions in Automobile Insurance: Massachusetts Experience, Public Policy Research Conference, University of Chicago, October 19, 1979.
Panelist - Accident Risk Assessments, Symposium/Workshop on Nuclear and Nonnuclear Energy Systems: Risk Assessment and Governmental Decision Making, Washington, D.C., February 1979, Mitre Corporation.
Chair and Speaker - Session Is Automobile Insurance Priced Fairly? Equity and Statistical Validity in Risk Classification, American Statistical Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, August 1978.
Panelist of Session Capacity and Solvency, Society of Actuaries and Casualty Actuarial Society Annual Meeting, New York City, April 1978.
Speaker - Profits and Rates of Return in Property-Liability Insurance, Society of Actuaries Research Conference on Modeling Financial Markets, New York University, September 1977.
Discussant - Statistics in the Law, American Statistical Association, Annual Meeting, Boston, August 1976.
Speaker - Statistics and Public Policy, Institute of Mathematical Statistics Meeting, Yale University, August 1976.
Speaker- Problems in the Estimation of Small Probabilities, Engineering Foundation Conference on Risk Benefit Methodology and Application, Asilomar, California, September 1975.
Q: Have any of your accreditations ever been investigated, suspended or removed? (if yes, explain)
A: No.
Q: On how many occasions have you been retained as an expert?
A: 250+
Q: For what area(s) of expertise have you been retained as an expert?
A: Statistics primarily. Also Economics and Finance.
Q: In what percentage of your cases were you retained by the plaintiff?
A: Half. Plaintiffs or defendants are almost always (but not always) corporations, government agencies, or other organizations.
Q: In what percentage of your cases were you retained by the defendant?
A: Half
Q: On how many occasions have you had your deposition taken?
A: 25+
Q: When was the last time you had your deposition taken?
A: May 14, 2007
Q: On how many occasions have you been qualified by a court to give expert testimony?
A: 25+
Q: On how many occasions have you testified as an expert in court or before an arbitrator?
A: 25+ (including mediation)
Q: For how many years have you worked with the legal industry as an expert?
A: 29
Q: What services do you offer? (E.g.: consulting, testing, reports, site inspections etc.)
A: - Assist in framing requests for and responses to discovery regarding data
and fact issues
- Advise how data and analysis can be useful to address fact issues
- Collect data via random sampling, designed experiments, surveys
etc.
- Create and manage databases
- Analyze data using appropriate statistical techniques
- Brief lawyers on statistical questions
- Review opposing parties' materials
- Critique other experts’ analysis
- Assist in depositions, negotiations, hearings, trials, and appeals
- Create charts for hearings
- Write reports and present testimony as requested
Q: What is your hourly rate to consult with an attorney?
A: $500 for myself and tiered rates for other staff.
Q: What is your hourly rate to review documents?
A: Same.
Q: What is your hourly rate to provide deposition testimony?
A: Same.
Q: What is your hourly rate to provide testimony at trial?
A: Same.
Q: Please list any fees other than those stated above (E.g.: travel expenses, copy fees, etc.)
A: Out of pocket expenses such as travel, FedEx, charts.
