Samantha Bates Prins

samantha bates prins

At the Grand Canyon, May 2008. There was 6 inches of snow outside our tent when we woke up this day.

Hi, I'm Samantha Prins (but I go by `Sam'). I joined the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at James Madison University in Fall 2006 as an Assistant Professor.

Prior to joining JMU I was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at Virginia Tech for 5 years.

I graduated with a Ph.D. from the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington in July 2001. More information can be found by surfing the links.

Classes:

See Blackboard for current course websites

Syllabi of courses taught at JMU:

Office Hours:

Mon 2PM-3PM, Tue 10AM-11AM, Wed 10.30AM-11.30AM, 3PM-5PM, Thur 3PM-4PM.
You do not have to make an appointment to see me in office hours. I will be glad to meet with you outside these times by appointment.

Miscellaneous:

Info. on studying statistics at JMU

Research Related:

REU (summer 2008)
Grants:: EPA STAR grant (11/2003-11/2008)
Research Interests:: Bayesian methods, Markov chain Monte Carlo, Importance sampling, Deterministic models, Environmental assessment, Model assessment.
Papers: Model-Based Clustering in a Brook Trout Classification Study within the Eastern United States. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 137(3), 841-851. A System Identification Technique Using Bias Current Perturbation for Determining the Effective Rotor Origin of Active Magnetic Bearings. Journal of Vibration and Acoustics 129(3) 317-322. Using biological metrics to score and evaluate sites: a nearest-neighbour reference condition approach. Freshwater Biology 52(1), 98-111. Bayesian uncertainty assessment in multicompartment deterministic simulation models for environmental risk assessment. Environmetrics 14(4), 355-371.