Teaching
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Stat 100 - Statistics
- Fall 2023 - Spring 2024, 2 sections
- Stat 200 - Statistical Analysis
- Fall 2023 - Present, 7 sections
- Stat 207 - Data Science Exploration
- Spring 2026 - Present, 1 section
- Statistics for Illinois Scholars Program
- Summer 2024 - Summer 2025, 2 sections
Portland State University
- Stat 241 - Application of Statistics for Business
- Fall 2021, 1 section
- Stat 243 - Introduction to Probability and Statistics I
- Winter 2017 - Winter 2021, 13 sections
- Stat 244 - Introduction to Probability and Statistics II
- Spring 2016 - Spring 2021, 6 sections
- Stat 451 - Applied Statistics for Engineers and Scientists I
- Fall 2017 - Spring 2019, 5 sections
- Stat 452 - Applied Statistics for Engineers and Scientists II
- Winter 2019 - Spring 2019, 2 sections
University of Michigan
- Stat 250 - Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis
- Fall 2013 - Winter 2015, 4 lab sections
- Head Graduate Student Instructor, Fall 2014 - Winter 2015
Stat 200
- Fall 2013 - Winter 2015, 4 lab sections
- Head Graduate Student Instructor, Fall 2014 - Winter 2015
Stat 200 is a course centered around active learning. Students complete activities in class that use TinkerPlots to explore new statistical concepts through building probability models and simulating results with them. They then watch lecture videos outside of class as homework to help solidify these ideas that they explored. Students finally return to class to complete their "homework" assignment, which is centered around statistical reasoning and carrying out statistical analyses in RStudio.
The resources provided here give a preview to the content used in this course, but it is not the complete set of material for the course. If you are a statistics instructor and wish to obtain more materials, such as the assessments, videos, or teacher annotations, please email me and I'd be happy to share! For the materials shared publicly here, you are free to adapt anything you see here, but please do not re-upload or publicly share these in their original form.
TinkerPlots Activities
The activities designed here are adapted from the curriculum I developed with Jennifer Noll on her CAREER grant as part of a course I taught at Portland State. Many of these activities and data sets have come from the CATALST curriculum and the Rossman and Chance applet collection. All of the links below will download Microsoft Word or PDF files.- Activity 0: Can You Beat Randomness?
- Activity 1: Cane Toads
- Activity 2: Hand Spans
- Activity 3: Coins and Cards
- Activity 4: NFL Overtimes
- Activity 5: Music Notes
- Activity 6: Kissing the "Right" Way
- Activity 7: Study Hours
- Activity 8: Dolphin Therapy
- Activity 9: Memorization
- Activity 10: Picking the Best Line
- Activity 11: Caffeine and Heart Rate
- Activity 12: Fish Oil
Textbook Materials
- Table of Contents
- Section 1: Introduction to R
- Section 2: Statistical Investigations
- Section 3: Probability and Random Variables
- Section 4: Introduction to Statistical Inference
- Section 5: Exploring Hypothesis Testing
- Section 6: Estimating a Proportion
- Section 7: Statistical Inference for One Mean
- Section 8: Statistical Inference for Two Proportions
- Section 9: Statistical Inference for Two Means
- Section 10: Simple Linear Regression
- Section 11: Multiple Linear Regression
- Section 12: Analysis of Variance