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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Steven T. Garren,
Professor
B.S., Roanoke College M.S., Ph.D., UNC-Chapel Hill |
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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. |
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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. |
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Robert
E. Lee, Associate Professor
B.A., Berea College M.A. Appalachian State University Ph.D., University of South Carolina |
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Kane Nashimoto, Assistant Professor
B.A., Bemidji State University M.A., University of North Dakota M.A., Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia |
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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. |
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Erika Ruffin, Instructor
B.S., James Madison University M.S., Virginia Commonwealth University |
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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. |
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D. Brian Walton, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Arizona Statistical interests: Stochastic processes and time series, applied probability, and hidden Markov models. |
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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. |
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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. |









