Emily Griffith took statistics in high school to avoid taking a “real” math class. Unfortunately for her plan to avoid math, she fell in love with statistics and ended up finishing college with a degree in statistics and a minor in math. She eventually earned her PhD, completed a postdoc at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, and then worked as a survey statistician for the FBI. She was recently named director of the North Carolina State University’s Statistical Consulting Core.
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GAO to FBI: More Focus on Statistics
The Government Accountability Office recommended that the FBI develop a framework for validation and statistical approaches for future investigations, with which the FBI agreed.