Professor of Mathematics
Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA
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Contact Information Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Westminster College New Wilmington, PA 16172 Curriculum Vita Westminster in London Fall 2013 |
Office: Hoyt 155 Phone: 724-946-7291 Fax: 724-946-7158 Email: ccuff at westminster.edu Office hours W 9:20-10:30 See course pages for more details |
How to get a letter of recommendation (I will need at least two weeks notice!)
form
What can I do with a math degree? web sites to visit
Student Resources online resources
Professional Societies
- American Statistical Association I am currently appointed to ASA-MAA joint committee
- Mathematical Association of America I am appointed to Committee on SIGMAAs
- Mathematical Association of America Special Interest Group on Statistics Education
- American Mathematical Society
- Association for Women in Mathematics
A sample of student projects advised in the last five years
- Analysis of truncated and rounded height data of PA National Guard 1850-1910 enlistment period currently reading papers, presented at NCUR 2010
- Wavelet analysis of wind turbulence, currently developing simulation model
- Optimal strategies for High-Low guessing game presented at NCUR, 2007
- Evolution of ABO blood types presented at NCUR, 2007
- Application of Game Theory to Student Peer Evaluations presented at NCUR, 2007
- Modeling Population Migration Using Linear Algebra
- The Dimension of the Coast of Westminster's Lake Brittain: A Look at Fractal Dimensions
Useful Statistics Sites
- Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education
- Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education
- Glossary of Terms for Statistics
- A collection of statistics links organized alphabetically
- Links from SIGMAA StatEd page
Descriptive Statistics
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Probability
- Probability Lab
- Random number generator
- Permutations and Combinations (See chapter 9)
- Random or Patterns?
- Normal Approximation for the Binomial
- Calculating the area under a Normal Distribution
- Example using the roll of dice
- Coupon Collector
- Buffon's Needle
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Correlations and Associations
- Guessing Correlations
- Investigate the relationship between data points, and its corresponding corelation coefficient
- Simpson's Paradox
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Regression
Confidence Intervals
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Hypothesis Testing
- Problems with Hypothesis Testing
- 402 (and growing) Articles/Books Questioning the Indiscriminate use of Statistical Hypothesis Testing in Observational Studies
- Why do we set p equal to 0.05
- Example of effects of power when changing alpha, sample size, difference in means
- Explanation of power
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Central Limit Theorem
Surveys and Design of Experiments
- Randomization of subjects
- What is a survey?
- Poll Methodology
- Pew Research methodology
- FAQs on polling
Useful datasets
- Cracker Data, self explanatory file
- The Number: Box Office, Movie Stars, Idle Speculation
- Census Data
- Statistics from Federal Agencies
- General Social Survey
- Education Statistics
References
- Statistical Tools for Internet and Classroom: Online text by Philip B. Stark, Berkeley
- AP-Statistics homepage
- History of Statistics
- Web Interface for Statistics Education: tutorials, glossaries, and links
First time instructor of statistics
- A minicourse will be offered at the 2012 Joint Math Meetings. Check for details at the MAA site
- Documents presented at USCOTS, June, 2009
- Hiring Statisticians presented at Joint Math Meetings 2009