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Statistics Faculty

Chair
Jeff Jonkman
Associate Professor
Jeff came to ΢ÃÜÆÆ½â in 2009, and was previously a faculty member at Mississippi State University and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, where he taught a variety of statistics courses. Jeff's primary research is in the area of meta-analysis, which deals with appropriate statistical...
Nathan Friedrichsen
Instructor
I started here at ΢ÃÜÆÆ½â in 2024, and previously I was a graduate student in statistics at Iowa State University. This semester I am teaching Intro to Data Science (STA-230) and Applied Statistics (STA-209). Previously I have also taught Intro to Statistics (SST-115). My primary research interests...
Shonda Kuiper
Professor
Professor Kuiper’s courses at ΢ÃÜÆÆ½â emphasize the application of statistics to multiple disciplines, a topic she also emphasizes in her research. Prior to teaching, she worked as a senior engineer and consulting statistician for Hallmark Greeting Cards. She also serves as a statistical consultant...
Ryan Miller
Assistant Professor
Ryan's statistical research interests involve penalized regression modeling approaches, which include well-known methods like the LASSO and elastic net, non-convex penalties such as MCP and SCAD and their variants, as well as structured approaches like the group LASSO. These models are attractive in...
Collin Nolte
Assistant Professor
Collin's PhD studies included both mathematics and biostatistics, and his research interests involve developing more robust methods for modeling repeated measures and time-series data, particularly as it relates to eye-tracking. His PhD work included development of the `bdots` software, or the...
Vinny Paris
Instructor
The majority of my personal research interest has been in experimental design, specifically bias reduction methods in both factorial and response surface settings. My more classical research interest deals with extending the foldover method in experimental design to non-binary factors as well as...
Photograph of Jonathan Wells wearing bowtie
Assistant Professor
Jonathan is a probabilist and mathematical statistician whose research interests lie in random matrix theory, a discipline that originally arose from an interest in estimating the covariance matrix of a random sample obtained from a multivariate population, and which now finds use across several...

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