Herbert F. Spirer is an Adjunct Professor of International Affairs, Columbia University, New York, a Professor Emeritus of Information Management at the University of Connecticut at Stamford, as well as a consultant on statistical science for numerous corporations and organizations. The author or coauthor of many publications on applied and business statistics as well as the use of statistics for monitoring human rights, he is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has been statistical science consultant for the UN’s International Tribunals on the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, (1994-1997). Herbert Spirer received the Ph.D. degree (1970) in operations research from New York University. He is co-author with L. Spirer of Intermediate Data Analysis for Human Rights
Statistical science consultant to Science and Human Rights Program, American Association for the Advancement of Science, UN’s International Tribunals on the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, (1994-1997), consultant to NGOs on data analysis. Co-editor of: Ball, Spirer, and Spirer, Making the Case: Investigating Large Scale Human Rights Violations Using Information Systems and Data Analysis (2000); co-author of Ball, Kobrak, and Spirer, State Violence in Guatemala, 1960-1996: A Quantitative Reflection, (1999), in English and Spanish; Spirer and Spirer, Data Analysis for Monitoring Human Rights, (1994), in French, Russian, and Indonesian; Spirer, Spirer, and Jaffe, Misused Statistics: Straight Talk about Twisted Numbers, (1987, 1998). Co-author of Spirer and Spirer, Intermediate Data Analysis for Human Rights, forthcoming. Author of textbooks and papers on quantitative analysis for business and papers on applying data analysis to human rights. Chair of the American Statistical Association Committee on Scientific Freedom and Human Rights (1990-1993). Fellow of the American Statistical Association (1996), and elected member of the International Statistical Association (2000) in recognition of achievements in applying statistics to human rights.
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