Summary

     The 2000 U.S. Census reported a population of 281.4 million, including 902,000 in Montana. In the 2000 election, Governor George W. Bush (President: 2001-2009) barely defeated Democrat VP Al Gore. The Electoral College count depended on a U.S. Supreme Court 5-4 ruling. George W. Bush became the 43rd U.S. President. His father George H. W. Bush was the 41st President for a single term (1989-1993). The George W. Bush administration, immediately in 2001, produced a large tax cut and withdrew support for the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on the reduction of greenhouse gases.
     On September 11, 2001, the U.S. was viciously attacked by terrorists trained in Afghanistan. In retaliation, the U.S. invaded and occupied Afghanistan, an occupation that has not yet ended (as of 2019).
     A few months later, the U.S. invaded and occupied Iraq to stop its leader Saddam Hussein from using weapons of mass destruction. However, it turned out that there were no such weapons in Iraq. As with Afghanistan, the U.S. is still (as of 2019) struggling to extricate itself from Iraq.

     President George Bush was re-elected in the 2004 election, defeating Democratic Senator John Kerry. The "Great Recession" began in 2007, it being brought on by the "subprime mortgage crisis" related to home loans granted to borrowers with poor credit histories. It would become the worst economic downturn in the U.S. since the Great Depression of the 1930s. In the 2008 Presidential election, Senator Barak Hussein Obama (President: 2009-2017) defeated Republican Senator John McCain.
     The internet permanently altered the way Americans communicated. By digital means, they received news, waged political debates, and read books. The conventional publishing industry began to shrink. Digital users became concerned about the loss of privacy and the risk of identity theft. The development of smart phones and other mobile technologies propelled the digital industry to explode, unhampered by regulatory oversight.

     This period corresponds to the term of Dr. Goeff Gamble (2000 – 2010) as President of MSU. Following the sudden death of President Malone, the retired University of Wyoming President Terry Roark served as Interim MSU President for the bulk of 2000 while a formal search was held. President Geoffrey Gamble began his service in December, 2000, during a serious budget crisis. Newly-elected Montana Governor Judith Helen Martz (2001-2005) suggested an increase for higher education that was a third of what was needed for salary increases and maintenance. The result of the legislative session and Board of Regents (BOR) allocations was that MSU, with its salaries already frozen, would not have to cut any academic programs, but tuition must increase substantially. As a result, the cost of an MSU education increased by 7.8% from 2000 to 2010 for resident students and by 28.4% for non-residents (inflation-adjusted).
     Research activity at MSU was stressed by the Great Recession of 2007-08. In a remarkable show of support for higher education, Montanans voted in 2008 for continuation of the Six-Mill Levy. The Obama administration’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 helped ameliorate the University's financial situation. MSU submitted several proposals and, within the time frame of the ARRA, acquired 77 grants totaling $43 million.
     The Great Recession was accompanied by a political emphasis on two-year college education entities that could meet the state’s workforce needs, as well as prepare students for a four-year degree at less cost. Competitive support was available for such reforms and MSU won a grant that eventually led to the opening of the two-year Gallatin College, located at MSU.
     In spite of the tuition increases, both the campus population and MSU's academic production increased. MSU enrollment increased from 11,760 in 2000 to 13,560 in 2010. The  instructional faculty increased from 409 FTE in tenure-track positions and 162 FTE in adjunct positions in 2000 to 438 FTE (a 29 FTE increase) in tenure-track positions and 211 FTE (a 49 FTE increase) in adjunct positions in 2010. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching announced in 2006 that MSU had become “one of 108 research universities (out of 4,321 colleges and universities) with ‘very high research activity’.” Persistent financial difficulties hit Montana and MSU in 2007. Even so, MSU received a glowing accreditation report in 2009.
     For 2004-2006, the MSU Course Catalog  appeared online for the first time. It presented a complete renovation of MSU programs and curricula, crafted to comply with MSU Core 2.0 specifications. For Core 2.0, undergraduate students were encouraged to participate in research/creative activities and the curricula provided training and credit to facilitate such participation.
     In 2010, President Gamble announced his resignation. During the first decade of the 2000’s he had led MSU upward through a very turbulent time in U.S. history. MSU's 2009 accreditation report describes the University's remarkable achievements in education, research, and service.

     In the first decade of the 21st century, statisticians’ computational tools became even faster and easier to use. Prominent statistical topics in this era included functional data analysis, the Least Angle Regression (LAR) algorithm, random (decision) forests, and genetics data analyses. Statisticians created new evaluation methods for discovering convincing patterns in “big data.” Bayesian analyses became more prevalent than ever before as computational limits were overcome.
     During this decade, it was determined that a preponderance of scientific findings proved to be false when independent researchers attempted to reproduce them. Among statisticians, the historical reliance on statistical significance (at the 0.05 level) received intense criticism. After intense self-examination by scientific organizations, it was determined that fundamental changes to the scientific culture were needed, including different processes for funding and rewarding scientists, improved systems for publishing scientific papers, and better strategies for making scientific discoveries. The necessity of "reproducible results" became a major concern among statisticians.

     In 2001, Dr. Kenneth Leon Bowers (1981–2014) became Department Head, replacing Dr. John Lund who had held the headship for eight years. The tenure-track faculty in the Department of Mathematical Sciences included 8 statisticians and Warren Esty among the total of 27. The research areas for the statisticians were diverse: R.J. Boik (linear models, multivariate analysis), W.W. Esty, Prof. of Mathematics: (stochastic processes, probability, mathematics education), M.A. Hamilton (biostatistics, statistical inference), J.D. Banfield (statistical computation, pattern recognition), J.J. Borkowski (experimental design, quality control), J.S. Cherry (spatial statistics, linear models), P.L. Munholland (stochastic modeling; sampling), W.F. Quimby (geostatistics, analysis of spatial data), and J.F. Robison-Cox (order statistics, statistical education).
     The Statistics Program conferred 46 MS degrees and 6 PhD degrees during this era. Three tenure-track faculty members retired. On 12/31/2002, Dr. Martin Hamilton (1970–2002) retired after 32 years of service. In 2006, Dr. Bill Quimby (1986-2006) retired after 20 years of service. In 2009, Dr. Robert Boik (1985-2009) retired after 24 years of service. Three statisticians joined the faculty, Dr. Mark C. Greenwood in 2004 and Dr. Kathryn Mary Irvine (2008–2010) & Dr. Megan Claire Dailey Higgs (2008-2016) in 2008.
     The Statistics Program was steadily updated. For the 2000-2002 MSU Catalog, hypothesis testing, time series, and experimental design were given less attention. Spatial statistics, model-based analysis, and likelihood inference were given more emphasis.
     Expanded statistics course offerings in the 2004-2006 MSU Catalog included nonparametric methods, categorical data analysis, quality control, Bayesian data analysis, use of computer packages such as SAS and S, graphical displays, mixed effects models, and robust methods for univariate and multivariate analysis.
     The 2008-2010 MSU Catalog showed that a selected 400-level course and a 500-level course on the same topics were scheduled to be co-convened. The 500-level students were required to complete a study or a project, in addition to the 400-level course requirements.

Detailed Chronicle of the Statistics Program: 2000-2009

 

On July 1, 2001, Dr. Kenneth Leon Bowers (1981–2014) became Department Head, replacing Dr. John Lund who had served in the headship for eight years.

The 2000-2002 MSU Catalog showed that many of the STAT course names and descriptions were revised. Hypothesis testing, time series, and experimental design were given less attention, but spatial statistics, model-based analysis, and likelihood inference were given more.

STAT 216M Elementary Statistics had M added; the topic ‘methods for binomial data’ was deleted from the description.
STAT 332 Statistics for Scientists and Engineers  no longer would be taught in the summer. The following topics were deleted: life testing, reliability and process control, methods of simulation, and experimental design.
STAT 401 Statistics for Researchers had a new name, replacing the former Applied Linear Statistical Models.
STAT 410 Applied Multiple Regression had a shorter name because “& Multivariate Analysis” was deleted; correspondingly, the description now included variable selection, but no longer included the multivariate topics of principle components, factor analysis, cluster analysis, discriminant analysis, and Hotelling’s T2.
STAT 424C Mathematical Statistics no longer covered decision theory, Bayesian methods and the multivariate normal distribution.
STAT 489 Undergraduate Research ... Instruction had the maximum credits reduced from 12 to 4, and 1-2 credits, rather than 1-6 credits, per semester.
STAT 501 Intermediate Probability & Statistics added the topic ‘order statistics’ and deleted ‘estimation;’ however,
STAT 502 Intermediate Mathematical Statistics added the topic ‘estimation’ and deleted ‘nonparametric methods.'
STAT 506 Linear Models II had a new list of topics, notably including two specific statistical software packages:
Application of linear models using statistical packages S and SAS; detecting and dealing with violations of assumptions including nonconstant variance, nonnormality, and collinearity; influence in the general linear model.
STAT 520 Topics in Applied Statistics had a new name, replacing Advanced Data Analysis, and a completely new description: Current topics selected from computational statistics, time series and spatial statistics, decision theory, sampling, linear and mixed models, and multivariate statistics.
STAT 522 Stochastic Processes added some topics to the description, including birth and death processes and long run behavior; Poisson processes; queueing systems; system reliability.
STAT 524 Biostatistics revised the topics list by deleting bioassay and adding cause-effect studies.
STAT 526 Experimental Design added topics: multiple comparisons, nested designs, fixed and random effects.
STAT 530 Nonparametrics still included non-parametric measures of association and bootstrapping & jackknifing techniques, but the rest of the description was replaced with: One-sample tests for location and scale; location and scale tests for two independent samples, tests for two dependent samples, tests for three or more independent samples, tests for three or more dependent samples, tests for goodness of fit including chi-square and Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests.
STAT 534 Spatial Data Analysis had a shorted title because "Time Series” was deleted. Correspondingly, the description deleted time series topics, such as spectrum analysis and forecasting & prediction, but added spatial topics such as geostatistical models and analysis, spatial point process models and analysis, spatial lattice models and analysis.
STAT 539 Generalized Linear Models is the shortened title because ‘& Nonlinear Statistical Methods’ was deleted. The description was altered only by the deletion of the multivariate central limit theorem and Pearson chi-square.
STAT 549 Advanced Mathematical Statistics I added the topics of shrinkage estimators, posterior simulation via markov chain monte carlo; and deleted the topics of empirical Bayes, non-informative priors.
STAT 550 Advanced Mathematical Statistics II added the topics of invariance, saddlepoint approximations, Bartlett corrections, profile likelihood, exponential and transformation families, ancillarity; and deleted the topics of unbiasedness, equivariance, efficiency, hypothesis tests, robust procedures.
STAT 578 Response Surface Methodology is the shortened title because ‘Model Building’ was deleted. The following topics were deleted: fractional-factorial designs, canonical analysis, ridge analysis, and mixture designs.

Graduate Degrees Awarded: 2000-2002

MS in Statistics degrees were awarded in 2001 to Becky (Herigstad) Parker, Julia (Nichols) Sharp, and Yun Zhu and in 2002 to Matthew (Matt) Ferrari, Amanda (Scott) Hering, Collin Prince, and Alan Swanson.

PhD in Statistics degrees were awarded in 2001 to Frederick Kweku Annan Holdbrook and in 2002 to Kamolchanok Choochaow.

  • Dr. Holdbrook’s dissertation “Modified cumulative sum procedures for count data with application to early detection of morbidity in radio frequency-monitored animals” was directed by Dr. William F. Quimby.3
  • Dr. Choochaow’s dissertation “Dimension reduction in PCA : likelihood-based methods” was directed by Dr. Robert J. Boik.6

 

2002-2004 MSU Catalog

This catalog and the subsequent catalogs through 2012-2014 are available as pdf documents online.9

Catalogs beginning 2014-2015 pertain to a single year, are updated annually, and have html formatting for easy navigation.12

The list of STAT courses is identical to the list in the 2000-02 catalog. The changes in the 2000-02 catalog seemed to anticipate the addition of new courses, but apparently the faculty decided to wait until the implementation of MSU's Core 2.0 requirements in the 2004-06 catalog before officially updating the course offerings.


The tenure-track faculty in the Department of Mathematical Sciences included 8 statisticians and Warren Esty among the total of 27. The research areas for the statisticians were diverse:

  • R.J. Boik (linear models, multivariate analysis),
  • W.W. Esty; (Prof. of Mathematics, stochastic processes, probability, mathematics education),
  • M.A. Hamilton (biostatistics, statistical inference),
  • J.D. Banfield (statistical computation, pattern recognition),
  • J.J. Borkowski (experimental design, quality control),
  • J.S. Cherry (spatial statistics, linear models),
  • P.L. Munholland (stochastic modeling, sampling),
  • W.F. Quimby (geostatistics, analysis of spatial data), and
  • J.F. Robison-Cox (order statistics, statistical education).

On 12/31/2002, Dr. Martin Hamilton (1970–2002) retired from his tenure-track position after 32 years of service . From late 2003 to 2006, he held a post-retirement, one-third appointment as Adjunct Research Professor in the Center for Biofilm Engineering (CBE). Hamilton's Vita; Hamilton's Narrative

I (Marty Hamilton) was the last to retire among the four statisticians who were the entire statistics faculty in 1970 and who all served MSU until retirement. During the 32 years since 1970, we four (McFeely, Tiahrt, Lund, & I) strove to create an enduring statistics program at MSU. We aspired to infuse statistical thinking into intellectual pursuits across the campus and beyond, as well as to conduct successful statistics instruction and research. To the extent that we were successful, we must acknowledge the support and contributions of our colleagues on the faculty and staff, and especially the steady stream of bright, dedicated MSU students. These people made our jobs pleasurable and intellectually rewarding.

Graduate Degrees Awarded: 2002 - 2004

MS in Statistics degrees were awarded in 2003 to Emilie Berglund, Tomoharu Eguchi, Melissa Harrington, Thomas Oakberg, Yurii Shvetsov, David Staples, Jifeng (Janet) Wang, Karen (Wesenberg) Ward, and Michele Wolf and in 2004 to Allen Bross, Adam Craig, Stacey Hancock, Albert Parker, Derek Sonderegger, and Melinda Yager.

PhD in Statistics degrees were awarded in 2003 to Boonorm Chomtee and Philip James Turk and in 2004 to Scott Hyde.

  • Dr. Chomtee’s dissertation “Comparison of design optimality criteria of reduced models for response surface designs in a spherical design region” was directed by Dr. John J. Borkowski.15
  • Dr. Turk’s dissertation “A response surface approach to assessing the relative efficiency of adaptive cluster sampling” was directed by Dr. John Borkowski.18
  • Dr. Hyde’s dissertation “Robust methods for multivariate linear models with spectral models for scatter matrices” was directed by Dr. Robert J. Boik.21

 

2004-2006 MSU Catalog

New courses were added, some courses were deleted, and some courses were revised. Many changes were required by MSU Core 2.0, especially new courses designed to engage undergraduate students in research & creative activities.

 

New courses:

STAT 289R UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH/CREATIVE ACTIVITY INSTRUCTION F,S,Su 1 -2 cr. RCT may be repeated. Maximum 4 cr. COREQUISITE: STAT 290.
— Classroom instruction associated with directed undergraduate research and creative activity projects.
STAT 290R UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH/CREATIVE ACTIVITY F,S,Su 1 - 8 cr. IND PREREQUISITE: Consent of department head.
— Directed undergraduate research.
STAT 400 SEMINAR On Demand 1 cr. SEM 1 Maximum 4 cr. PREREQUISITE: Junior standing and as determined for each offering.
— Topics offered at the upper division level which are not covered in regular courses. Student participate in preparing and presenting material.
STAT 431 NONPARAMETRIC STATISTICS F alternate years, to be offered 2005 3 cr.  LEC 3. PREREQUISITE: One of the following: STAT 217, STAT 332, or STAT 401.
— The goal of the course is to train students to use and understand nonparametric statistical methods including, but not limited to, the sign test, permutation tests, Wilcoxon and Mann-Whitney tests, Kruskal Wallis test, Spearman and Kendall’s measures of association, bootstrap techniques, and smoothing methods for model fitting. The emphasis will be on methods and their interpretation rather than theory. These topics previously in the discontinued STAT 530
STAT 437 INTRODUCTION TO APPLIED MULT1VARIATE ANALYSIS  S alternate years, to be offered 2005 3 cr. LEC 3 PREREQUISITE: STAT 410.
— Classic multivariate methods, including but not limited to principal components analysis, canonical correlation analysis, factor analysis, discrimination and classification methods, and cluster analysis.
STAT 439 INTRODUCTION TO CATEGORICAL DATA ANALYSIS S alternate years, to be offered 2006 3 cr LEC 3. PREREQUISITE: STAT 410.
— Contingency table analysis, Poisson regression, logistic regression, log-linear models, multicategory logit models
STAT 476 INTERNSHIP F,S,Su 2-12 cr. IND PREREQUISITE: Junior standing, Consent of instructor, and approval of department head.
— An individualized assignment arranged with an agency business, or other organization to provide guided experience in the field.
STAT 528 STATISTICAL QUALITY CONTROL F alternate years, to be offered 2005 3 cr. LEC 3 PREREQUISEFE: STAT 420 or an equivalent transfer course in probability theory.
— Modeling process quality, traditional SQC tools, control charts for variable and attribute data, CUSUM and UWMA charts, process capability analysis, reliability statistics, accelerated testing.
STAT 532 BAYESIAN DATA ANALYSIS F alternate years, to he offered 2005 3 cr. LEC 3 PREREQUISITE: STAT 424 and STAT 502.
— Decision theory including loss functions, minimax criteria, shrinkage estimators, Bayesian data analysis and applications including posterior simulation via markov chain monte carlo. These topics previously were in the discontinued STAT 549.
STAT 576 INTERNSHIP F, S, Su 2- 12 cr. IND Maximum credits unlimited. PREREQUISITE: Graduate standing, consent of instructor and approval of department head.
— An individualized assignment arranged with an agency, business or other organization to provide guided experience in the field.

Deleted courses:

STAT 530 NONPARAMETRICS, but the topics were covered by the new STAT 431.
STAT 549 ADVANCED MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS I, but the topics were covered by the new STAT 532.

Revised courses:

STAT 216Q ELEMENTARY STATISTICS replaced the M designation with Q.
STAT 424 MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS no longer had a C designation on the course number.
STAT 438 STATISTICAL COMPUTING AND GRAPHICAL ANALYSIS had a new name that replaced the former GRAPHICAL TECHNIQUES IN DATA ANALYSIS. The rewritten description was: Introduction to statistical packages SAS and S, including data importation, graphing, and basic analysis. Emphasis on use of graphical displays to explores understand and present data.
STAT 489R UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH/CREATIVE ACTIVITY INSTRUCTION has an added R designation.
STAT 490R UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH/CREATIVE ACTIVITY has an added R designation.
STAT 506 ADVANCED REGRESSION ANALYSIS has a new name, replacing LINEAR MODELS II.
STAT 537 MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS I had topics added to the course description, including: analysis of variance and covariance, analysis of repeated measures, discriminant and classification analysis, cluster analysis.
STAT 538 MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS II had a new course description:
— Special topics in multivariate analysis including general latent variable methods, analysis of covariance structures, common principle components, robust and distribution free multivariate analysis.

 

In 2004, Dr. Mark Greenwood joined the Statistics faculty. Dr. Mark C. Greenwood received the PhD degree in Statistics from the University of Wyoming in 2004. His dissertation “Functional Data Analysis for Glaciated Valley Profile Analysis” was supervised by Dr. Snehalata Vasant Huzurbazar.

 

In 2006,Dr. Bill Quimby (1986 – 2006) retired after 20 years of service in the statistics program.

Graduate Degrees Awarded: 2004 - 2006

MS in Statistics degrees were awarded in 2005 to Benjamin (Ben) Haaland and in 2006 to Erin Austin, Cody Custis, and Jiang (Marsha) Huang.

2006-2008 MSU Catalog

One new course and two course revisions are listed.

New course

STAT 448 MIXED EFFECTS MODELS F alternate years, to be offend 2007 3 cr. LEC 3
PREREQUISITE: S'TAT 410 or 412.
—In depth analysis of random, fixed and mixed effects models including use of stat software and interpretation of results. Emphasis on observations correlated in time, (repeated measures) and space, and on random coefficients models (e.g., growth curves).

Revised courses

STAT 401 APPLIED METHODS IN STATISTICS had graphical techniques, data collection plans, and inferences on proportions added to the topics list.
STAT 410 APPLIED MULTIPLE REGRESSION had a new description:
— Linear regression analysis with one response variable and one or more predictor variables; statistical inference, diagnostics, and remedial measures, and model building methods are discussed.

 

Graduate Degrees Awarded: 2006-2008

MS in Statistics degrees were awarded in 2007 to Elizabeth Bishop, Beiyi Cai, Yin Chang, Benjamin (Ben) Sharp, and Stephen (Steve) Walsh and in 2008 to John Cookson, Glenna Gordon, Sarah Jensen, Greta (Linse) Peterson, and Rebecca Taylor.

A PhD in Statistics degree was awarded in 2007 to Julia Lynn (Nichols) Sharp.

  • Dr. Sharp’s dissertation “New statistical methods for analyzing proteomics data from affinity isolation lc-ms/ms experiments” was directed by Dr. John J. Borkowski.24

 

2008-2010 MSU Catalog

New courses were added, a course was deleted, and a few courses were revised. Some selected 4xx courses were co-convened with corresponding 5xx courses; in those classes. the 5xx students would conduct studies or projects in addition to what was required of 4xx students.

New courses

STAT 226Q HONORS ELEMENTARY STATISTICS S 3 cr. LEC 3 PREREQUISITE: Enrollment in the MSU Honors Program or consent of instructor.
— Honors section of STAT 216. Topic coverage parallels STAT 216 but with greater emphasis on applications, data analysis and interpretation, statistical computing, and statistics in the media.
STAT 338 STATISTICAL COMPUTING AND GRAPHICAL ANALYSIS S 3 cr. LEC 3 PREREQUISITE: One of the following: STAT 217, STAT 332, or STAT 401.
— Introduction to statistical packages SAS and S, including data importation, graphing, and basic analysis. Emphasis on use of graphical displays to explore, understand and present data. This is the former STAT 438.
STAT 436 INTRODUCTION TO TIME SERIES ANALYSIS F alternate years, to be offered even years 3 cr. LEC 3 PREREQUISITE: STAT 410.
— An introduction to time series analysis considering time series regression, autoregressive, moving average, and ARIMA models, time series model building, estimation, and forecasting, and basic frequency domain methods. This list is identical to the topics for the new STAT 536.

STAT 536 INTRODUCTION TO TIME SERIES ANALYSIS F alternate years, to be offered even years 3 cr. LEC 3 PREREQUISITE: STAT 410 and consent of the instructor.
— An introduction to time series analysis considering time series regression, autoregressive, moving average, and ARIMA models, time series model building, estimation, and forecasting, and basic frequency domain methods. This list is identical to the topics for the new STAT 436.

Deleted course

STAT 438 STATISTICAL. COMPUTING AND GRAPHICAL ANALYSIS; this course was replaced by STAT 338.

Revised courses

STAT 217Q received a Q designation
STAT 410 METHODS FOR DATA ANALYSIS I is a new title replacing APPLIED MULTIPLE REGRESSION. The new descriptions is:
— Intro to statistical inference and design, t-tools, non-parametric alternatives, one-way ANOVA, simple linear regression, multiple linear regression, and variable selection procedures, with an emphasis on scope of inference and interpretation of results.
STAT 412 METHODS FOR DATA ANALYSIS II is a new title replacing ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE & DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS. The new description is:
— Two-way ANOVA, studies with no replication, serial correlation, repeated measures, Intro to multivariate analysis, principles of experimental design, factorial and blocked designs, comparisons of proportions or odds, logistic regression, Poisson log-linear regression.
STAT 506 ADVANCED REGRESSION ANALYSIS had the list of topics revised by adding “mixed effects models” and by deleting “S & SAS” and “the general linear model.”

 

In 2008, two statisticians joined the faculty, Dr. Kathi Irvine and Dr. Megan Higgs.

Dr. Kathryn Mary Irvine (2008–2010) received her PhD degree in Statistics from Oregon State University in 2007. Her dissertation “Graphical Models for Multivariate Spatial Data” was supervised by Dr. Alix I. Gitelman.

Dr. Megan Claire Dailey Higgs (2008–2016) received her PhD degree in Statistics from Colorado State University in 2007. Her dissertation "Clipped Latent-Variable Spatial Models for Ordered Categorical Data" was supervised by Dr. Jennifer A. Hoeting.

Dr. Robert Boik (1985–2009) retired in 2009 after 24 years of service. 

 

Graduate Degrees Awarded: 2008-2010

MS in Statistics degrees were awarded in 2009 to Kezia Manlove, Elizabeth (Liz) Marra, Joseph (Michael) Sulock, Ismael Talke, and Olga Vsevolozhskaya and in 2010 to Sydney Akapame, Kingsford (King) Jones, Rory Peck, Sabrina Rosenstein, and Jennifer Weeding.

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