Philip B. Stark | Professor and Chair of Statistics | University of California

Berkeley, CA 94720-3860 | stark [at] stat.berkeley.edu | 510-394-5077

My research centers on inference (inverse) problems, especially confidence procedures tailored for specific goals. Applications include the Big Bang, causal inference, the U.S. census, climate modeling, earthquake prediction, election auditing, food web models, the geomagnetic field, geriatric hearing loss, information retrieval, Internet content filters, nonparametrics (confidence sets for function and probability density estimates with constraints), risk assessment, the seismic structure of Sun and Earth, spectroscopy, spectrum estimation, and uncertainty quantification for computational models of complex systems. Numerical optimization is important to my work; I've published some software.

Consulting and expert witness topics have included truth in advertising, election contests, equal protection under the law, intellectual property and patent litigation, jury selection, trade secret litigation, employment discrimination litigation, import restrictions, insurance litigation, natural resource legislation, environmental litigation, sampling in litigation, wage and hour class actions, product liability class actions, consumer class actions, the U.S. census, clinical trials, signal processing, geochemistry, IC mask quality control, behavioral targeting, water treatment, sampling the web, risk assessment, credit risk models, and oil exploration.

SticiGui is an online introductory Statistics "text" that includes interactive data analysis and demonstrations, machine-graded online assignments and exams (a different version for every student), and a text with dynamic examples and exercises, applets illustrating key concepts, and an extensive glossary. SticiGui was the basis of the first online course (in any subject) taught at UC Berkeley. With Ani Adhikari, I am teaching an introductory statistics MOOC in spring 2013. Over 50,500 students enrolled in the course.

Last modified 27 February 2013. P.B. Stark. statistics.berkeley.edu/~stark/index.html