William A. Huber, PhD, PSTAT, performs general statistical consulting with specialized capabilities in statistical sampling, environmental and spatial statistics, risk analysis, and geographic information systems. He directed the data analysis for the FCC’s National Broadband Mapping Plan; was a principal reviewer of the U.S. EPA’s guidance document on statistical methods for groundwater monitoring; has testified as a statistical and mathematical modeling expert in complex federal litigation; led research and development of data visualization software; provided statistical support for hundreds of investigations of water, soils, groundwater, wastewater, and air quality; developed custom and commercial statistical software for sampling, spatial data analysis, economic estimation, and database querying; and published research in risk assessment, geostatistics, and quantum mechanics. He has taught mathematics and statistics at St. Joseph’s University, Haverford College, Penn State-Great Valley, Villanova University, and in short courses for professional organizations. For 12 years he taught whitewater kayaking as an ACA-certified Instructor and Instructor Trainer.

Dr. Huber does business as Quantitative Decisions in Rosemont, Pennsylvania, and is also formally associated with Analysis & Inference (Springfield, Pennsylvania) and S.S. Papadopulos & Associates (Rockville, Maryland). At A&I he supports litigation as a consulting and testifying expert. Applications have included assessing rare risks, determining disparate impact in age and gender discrimination cases, and obtaining accurate samples of processes and populations. At SSP&A, he provides expertise in statistics and geostatistics to support environmental investigations, remediations, monitoring, and litigation.

Formerly, Dr. Huber owned a software development startup and held senior technical and management positions at a large international engineering consulting firm. Over his career, he has helped develop small businesses and volunteer organizations, serving on their boards of directors in various positions, including as Treasurer of the Philadelphia Canoe Club, Editor of Directions Magazine (a Web publication on GIS), and Director of XI corporation (an environmental services company). He has long been building and nurturing professional communities in GIS and statistics on the Web. Currently he is serving as Treasurer of the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Statistical Association.

EDUCATION
  • PhD, Mathematics, Columbia University, 1985
  • M. Phil, Mathematics, Columbia University, 1980
  • MA, Mathematics, Columbia University, 1979
  • BA, Philosophy, Haverford College, 1978
  • BA, Mathematics, Haverford College, 1978
CERTIFICATION

Accredited Professional Statistician (PSTAT), American Statistical Association

AREAS OF EXPERTISE
  • Statistics
  • Mathematical Modeling
  • Geographic Modeling and Analysis
  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  • Decision and Risk Analysis
  • Environmental Statistics and Geostatistics
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
  • American Statistical Association (ASA)
SELECT PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS

  • DiFilippo E.L., M.J. Tonkin, A. Spiliotopoulos, W. Huber, and V. Rohay, 2019. Evaluating Environmental Remediation Performance at Radwaste Sites Using Multiple, Censored Regression Analysis. Presentation at the Waste Management Conference, Phoenix, AZ, March 7, 2019. IAEA #52043413

  • Tonkin, M., J. Kennel, W. Huber, and J.M. Lambie, 2016. Multi-Event Universal Kriging (MEUK). Advances in Water Resources 87 pp 92-105, January 2016.

  • G. William Bailey, William A. Huber. Methods and systems for optimizing network travel costs. Patent US8332247 B1, Dec 11, 2012.

  • Huber, William A, 2010. Ignorance is Not Probability. Risk Analysis 30 issue 3, pp 371-376, March 2010. doi: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2010.01361.x

  • Huber, William A., 2010. Comment on Why Risk is Not Variance: An Expository Note. Risk Analysis 30 issue 3, pp 327-8, March 2010.

  • Guagliardo, Mark F., William A. Huber, Deborah M. Quint, and Stephen J. Teach, 2007. Does Spatial Accessibility of Pharmacy Services Predict Compliance with Long Term Control Medications? Journal of Asthma, 44:10, 881-883. doi: 10.1080/02770900701752680

  • Cox, LA and WA Huber, 2007. Symmetry, Identifiability, and Prediction Uncertainties in Multistage Clonal Expansion (MSCE) Models of Carcinogenesis. Risk Analysis 2007 Dec(6): 1441-53. doi: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2007.00980.x

  • Sinton, Diana and William A. Huber, 2007. Mapping Polka and Its Ethnic Heritage in the United States. Journal of Geography 106 41-47. doi: 10.1080/00221340701487913

  • Jamall, IS, T Lu, and WA Huber, 2005. Distinguishing Between Multiple Chlorinated Solvent Plumes: A Comprehensive Approach. The Annual International Conference on Soils, Sediments, and Water, Amherst, MA.

  • Cox, LA, D Babayev, and WA Huber, 2005. Limitations of Qualitative Risk Assessment. Risk Analysis 25 (3), 651-662. doi: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2005.00615.x

  • Huber, William A., 2002. GIS & Steganography—Part 3: Vector Steganography. Published on the Web in Directions Magazine at http://www.directionsmag.com/article. php?article_id=195&trv=1 , April 18, 2002.

  • Huber, William A., 2001. Estimating Markov Transitions. Journal of Environmental Management, v 61, no. 4, pp 381-385.

  • Huber, William A., 2000. Variability and Uncertainty. Chapter 12.2 of The Standard Handbook of Environmental Science, Health, and Technology, J. Lehr, Ed. McGraw-Hill.

  • Huber, William A. and W. A. S. Nijenuis, 2000. Predictive Modeling of Ammonia Deposition from Large Numbers of Agricultural Sources. 4th International Conference on Integrating GIS and Environmental Modeling (GIS/EM4): Problems, Prospects and Research Needs. Banff, Alberta, Canada, September 3 – 8, 2000.