E-mail: Micah_Altman@harvard.edu (PGP Public Key)   Telephone: (617) 496-3847 Fax: (425) 740-0715   Mailing Address: Harvard-MIT Data Center Institute for Quantitative Social Science Center for Government and International Studies 1737 Cambridge Street, Room 325 Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138   [You may be interested in directions and maps]

Dr. Altman (Ph.D., California Institute of Technology) serves as a Co-Principle Investigator in a number of sponsored research projects, promoting computationally reliable and efficient statistical methods; and the collection, sharing, citation and preservation of research data through the development of methodologies, standards, and open-source software tools.

Dr. Altman's work has been recognized by the Supreme Court and by Who's Who in America. His extensively-reviewed book, Numerical Issues in Statistical Computing for the Social Scientist, corrects common computational errors made across the range of social sciences. And his over thirty publications and five open-source software packages span political science, computer science, informatics, statistics, and many other disciplines in social and information sciences.

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