Susan Hinkins

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Susan M. Hinkins is a retired American government and survey statistician who has worked for the Internal Revenue Service, the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Ernst & Young, NORC at the University of Chicago, and multiple human rights organizations. [1]

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Education and career

Hinkins majored in mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, graduating in 1971. She went to Montana State University, where she earned a master's degree in mathematics in 1973, [1] [2] and completed a Ph.D. in statistics in 1979. Her doctoral dissertation, Using Incomplete Multivariate Data to Simultaneously Estimate the Means, was supervised by Martin Alva Hamilton. [3]

She began her government service in 1980–1981, working for the Office of Radiation Programs of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, on the measurement of radon in homes. [1] [2] Next, she worked for the Internal Revenue Service from 1981 to 1998, on income statistics. After three years at Ernst & Young, working on quality of service in telecommunications, [1] she joined NORC as a senior statistician in 2001. [4] At NORC, she managed accounting data for Native American funds held by the US government, [1] and testified as an expert in the Cobell v. Salazar lawsuit concerning alleged mismanagement of those funds. [2] Her other work at NORC concerned household survey data, anonymization of medicare data, and the assessment of capabilities for rapid response to bioterrorism. [1] While continuing at NORC as a senior statistician, she also chaired the committee on scientific freedom and human rights of the American Statistical Association (ASA), [5] served as advisor to the scientific advisory committee of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group from 2013 to 2021, [1] represented the ASA on the Science and Human Rights Coalition of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), [6] and co-chaired the AAAS Service to the Human Rights Community working group. [7]

Personal life

Hinkins is the daughter of Russell Hinkins (1901–1988), a high school teacher and principal, farmer, and grain storage official in southwestern Wisconsin. [8] She has worked as a dance instructor for Scottish country dance in Bozeman, Montana. [9]

Recognition

Hinkins was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2004. [10]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Susan Hinkins, Human Rights Data Analysis Group , retrieved 2024-03-18
  2. 1 2 3 "Appendix D. Resume for Susan Hinkins", Expert report of Susan Hinkins, Cobell v. Kempthorne, US Justice Dept., September 17, 2007, retrieved 2024-03-18
  3. ↑ Susan Hinkins at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ↑ 2001 Annual Report (PDF), NORC, p. 28
  5. ↑ Somers, Benjamin; Ham, Becky (February 25, 2010), Science-Rights Coalition Has Global Impact in First Year, AAAS, retrieved 2024-03-18
  6. ↑ ASA at 175 – ASA, AAAS, and Scientific Freedom and Human Rights, American Statistical Association, 2014, retrieved 2024-03-18
  7. ↑ Working Group Report: Service to the Human Rights Community, AAAS, 2013, retrieved 2024-03-18
  8. ↑ "Hinkins, Russell", The Capital Times, p. 30, February 18, 1988: ,
  9. ↑ Sanchez-Gonzalez/Chronicle, Adrian (November 7, 2014), "Everyday People – Susan Hinkins", Bozeman Daily Chronicle, retrieved 2024-03-18
  10. ↑ ASA Fellows, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2024-03-18
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