Dr.Robert A. Bardwell has over 25 years of experience consulting and providing expert witness testimony in statistics, probability modeling, demographics, econometrics, and computer algorithms. Dr. Bardwell received his Ph.D. in Mathematical Statistics from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1989. 

Dr. Bardwell has has been retained by government agencies, corporations, non-profits, and plaintiffs and defendants in a variety of cases to perform statistical analysis and probability modeling, and has testified as an expert in the area of statistics in United States District Court for the District of Colorado, United States District Court for the District of Nevada, and the Circuit Court of the Sixth Judicial Circuit, Pinellas County, Florida.

A few examples of his statistical and probability modeling work include:

• Consulted for the Center for Policy Research on survey execution, weighting and estimation for a large and detailed national probability sample for the National Violence Against Women survey. As part of this project, Dr. Bardwell conducted sensitivity analyses, and theoretical explication of the impact of sample weighting, and revised the methodology report, to secure acceptance of the survey by the statistical department of the Center for Disease Control.

• Retained by the Boulder Police Department in Boulder, Colorado, to evaluate the probability associated with physical and circumstantial evidence in a notorious unsolved murder case (http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/murders/thayne-alan-smika/view). Dr. Bardwell’s analysis contributed to a new technique for identification of shot-shell pellet evidence.

• Computed probabilities and payoffs for new casino game for the World Gaming Corporation in Las Vegas, Nevada.

• Developed and continues to maintains the computer program used by the Federal Election Commission to design, draw and evaluate random samples for audits of contributions and expenditures for all Federal elections.

• Designed and developed sampling strategies and statistical algorithms used by the Mineral Management Service of the United States Department of Interior for measuring gas, oil, and mineral royalty payment compliance. This work included the development of a compliance index that has been presented to the US Congress to document the MMS performance for over a decade. Subsequent contracts included the sample design and statistical analysis required for billing royalty underpayments based on statistical sampling.

Dr. Bardwell’s Curriculum Vitae lists cases in which he has testified as an expert at trial or by deposition, and his publications.