William Briggs

Statistical Consultant, New York Methodist Hospital; wmbriggs.com

William M. Briggs is a statistical consultant whose research interests include prediction and forecast accuracy and usefulness; skill and cognitive biases in prediction; practical decision analysis; graphical data display; climate variability; and the philosophy of statistics and probability. He is a consultant to New York Methodist Hospital, where he teaches a course to emergency medicine and surgical residents in basic probability and statistics and consults on departmental research projects.

In 2007, he was visiting professor of statistics in the Department of Mathematics at Central Michigan University; from 2003-2007 was assistant professor of statistics at Weill Medical College of Cornell University; and has been adjunct assistant professor of statistical science at Cornell University. He has been a featured speaker at Heartland’s International Conferences on Climate Change. 

Visit his website, wmbriggs.com.

William Briggs Contributions

April 2, 2018
  • Climate Change
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  • Environment & Energy
  • Government & Liberty
March 20, 2018
  • Climate Change
  • Law
  • Environment & Energy
  • Government & Liberty
March 14, 2018
  • Climate Change
  • Environment & Energy
January 31, 2018
  • Government & Politics
  • Environment & Energy
  • Government & Liberty
  • Employment
  • Entitlements
  • Education
  • Health Care
  • Government Spending
  • Economy
August 25, 2017
  • Climate Change
  • Environment & Energy

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