Herbert I. Weisberg

Herb Weisberg (1944- ) was born in New York City and raised in White Plains, NY. He graduated from Columbia University and received his doctorate in statistics from Harvard. After a brief stint in academia, he spent the bulk of his career as an independent statistical consultant. His recent techno-thriller Data Games (2020) is his first work of fiction. It is based loosely on a lengthy career during which he advised numerous attorneys involved in disputes about the efficacy or safety of various drugs. These experiences inspired the fictional exploits of his alter ego, Ken Wheeler. Herb is a co-author of Statistical Methods for Comparative Studies (1980) and has written Bias and Causation: Models and Judgment for Valid Comparisons (August, 2010). The latter won a PROSE Award from the American Publishers Association for the best book related to mathematics in 2010 and the Ziegler Award from the Technometrics journal. His most recent nonfiction book, Willful Ignorance: The Mismeasure of Uncertainty (2014), is a historical account of the evolution of probability.