STATISTICS AT JMU

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Arlene Casiple, Instructor B.S., University of the Phillipines M.S., University of Florida Statistical interests: Statistics education, distance learning.

Ryan Charest, Instructor B.S., James Madison University M.S., North Carolina State University Statistical interests: Statistical quality control, nonparametric statistics, statistical and SAS consulting.

Lihua Chen, Assistant Professor B.S, M.S, Peking University, China Ph.D., Iowa State University Statistical interests: Model combining and selection, categorical data analysis, information theory and Bayesian methods.

Rickie J. Domangue, Professor B.S., M.S., Nicholls State University Ph.D., Clemson University Statistical interests: Clinical trials, experimental design, mixed linear models, statistics education.

Steven T. Garren, Professor B.S., Roanoke College M.S., Ph.D., UNC-Chapel Hill

Hasan Hamdan, Associate Professor B.S., Birzeith University M.S., Ph.D., American University Statistical interests: Scale mixtures, time series, multivariate analysis and distribution theory.

Nusrat Jahan, Assistant Professor B.Sc (Hons.),  University of Dhaka, Bangladesh M.Sc.,  Queen's University, Canada Ph.D., Mississippi State University Statistical interests: Time series, statistical genomics, microarray data analysis.

Robert E. Lee, Associate Professor B.A., Berea College M.A. Appalachian State University Ph.D., University of South Carolina

Kane Nashimoto, Assistant Professor B.A., Bemidji State University M.A., University of North Dakota M.A., Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia

Samantha (Bates) Prins, Assistant Professor B.Sc. (Hons), University of Auckland, New Zealand M.S., Ph.D, University of Washington Statistical interests: Environmental applications, Bayesian statistics, deterministic models, clustering & classification.

Erika Ruffin, Instructor B.S., James Madison University M.S., Virginia Commonwealth University

Dinesh Sharma, Assistant Professor B.Sc., M.Sc. (Statistics), HNB Garhwal University, India M.S. (Applied Math), University of Tennessee, Knoxville Ph.D., Florida State University Statistical interests: Prognostic modeling, computational statistics.

D. Brian Walton, Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Arizona Statistical interests: Stochastic processes and time series, applied probability, and hidden Markov models.

Colleen Watson, Instructor B.S., M.S., Georgia Tech Statistical interests: Instructing current and future teachers to incorporate hands-on data collection into data analysis lesson plans in order to increase student excitement for statistics.

Ling Xu, Assistant Professor B.S., Wuhan Technical U.  of Surveying & Mapping, China M.S., Ph.D., University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Statistical interests: Computational statistics, Bayesian methods.

Retired Faculty

Ching-Yuan Chiang, B.S., A.M., M.A., Ph.D., Professor Emeritus.

George W. Marrah, B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Associate Professor Emeritus.