Biography:Susan Hinkins
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]
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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Susan Hinkins, Human Rights Data Analysis Group, https://hrdag.org/people/susan-hinkins-phd/, retrieved 2024-03-18
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Appendix D. Resume for Susan Hinkins", Expert report of Susan Hinkins, Cobell v. Kempthorne (US Justice Dept.), September 17, 2007, https://www.justice.gov/archive/civil/cases/cobell/docs/txt/0917207_hinkins.txt, retrieved 2024-03-18
- ↑ Susan Hinkins at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ 2001 Annual Report, NORC, p. 28, https://www.norc.org/content/dam/norc-org/pdfs/NORC_Annual_Report_2001.pdf
- ↑ Somers, Benjamin; Ham, Becky (February 25, 2010), Science-Rights Coalition Has Global Impact in First Year, AAAS, https://www.aaas.org/news/science-rights-coalition-has-global-impact-first-year, retrieved 2024-03-18
- ↑ ASA at 175 – ASA, AAAS, and Scientific Freedom and Human Rights, American Statistical Association, 2014, https://community.amstat.org/sspa/communityblogs/blogviewer?BlogKey=0b05e023-b284-4f74-b94d-47fddc705091, retrieved 2024-03-18
- ↑ Working Group Report: Service to the Human Rights Community, AAAS, 2013, https://www.aaas.org/resources/working-group-report-service-human-rights-community, retrieved 2024-03-18
- ↑ "Hinkins, Russell", The Capital Times: 30, February 18, 1988: [1], [2]
- ↑ Sanchez-Gonzalez/Chronicle, Adrian (November 7, 2014), "Everyday People – Susan Hinkins", Bozeman Daily Chronicle, https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/everyday-people---susan-hinkins/image_635f5fb6-66d0-11e4-ae16-eb007bce22bc.html, retrieved 2024-03-18
- ↑ ASA Fellows, American Statistical Association, https://ww2.amstat.org/fellows/, retrieved 2024-03-18
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