Paul Velleman | |
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Born | April 16, 1949 |
Academic background | |
Education | Dartmouth College (AB) Princeton University (MA, PhD) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Statistics |
Institutions | Cornell University |
Paul F. Velleman (born April 16,1949) is an American academic who is a professor of statistics at Cornell University. [1]
Velleman earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and social science from Dartmouth College,followed by Master of Arts and PhD from Princeton University. Velleman's thesis was written on the topic of non-linear data smoothing. [2] [3]
He is the author and designer of the multimedia statistics CD-ROM,ActivStats,for which he was awarded the EDUCOM Medal for innovative uses of computers in teaching statistics,and the ICTCM Award for Innovation in Using Technology in College Mathematics. [4] He developed the statistics program,Data Desk and the Internet site Data and Story Library (DASL), [5] which provides datasets for teaching statistics. In 1987,he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. [6]
He is co-author (with Richard De Veaux and David Bock) of Intro Stats,Stats:Modeling the World,and Stats:Data and Models,Business Statistics and Business Statistics:A First Course (with Norean Sharpe and Richard De Veaux) and the co-author (with David Hoaglin) of ABCs of Exploratory Data Analysis. Velleman taught statistics at Cornell University from 1975 to 2018. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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