Using SAS/INSIGHT to Spotlight Age Grouping and Other Issues in the Analysis of Motor Vehicle Crash Data
Carl E. Pierchala, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Telephone:  (202) 366-6736

After a brief career as a FORTRAN programmer, Carl returned to graduate school at UCLA’s School of Public Health and earned an M.S. and then a Ph.D. in Biostatistics.  Subsequently he was an Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University School of Medicine for four years, involved in biomedical consulting, teaching and biostatistical research.  After that, for 2½ years he was a Senior Staff Fellow at the FDA’s Center for Drugs and Biologics, primarily conducting statistical reviews of New Drug Applications.  He then spent 2½ years at USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service, where he did SAS programming and carried out statistical studies related to the quality control of the measurement of agricultural commodities.  Most recently, for 11 years he has been at NHTSA’s National Center for Statistics and Analysis, involved mainly in data quality matters.  His current interests include analytic quality, exploratory data analysis, SAS programming and the application of quality control techniques to data quality.