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Paul Velleman

People/Emeriti faculty
Professor Emeritus
Social Statistics
Paul Velleman

Publications

Journal Articles

  • . . Data Desk. WIRES.
  • . . DataDesk: an interactive package for data exploration, display, model building, and data analysis. WIREs Comput Stat. (DOI:10.1002/wics.1208)
  • , & . . Exploratory Data Analysis. APA Handbook of Research Methods in Psychology.
  • , , , , , & . . Hand Dexterity in Children: Administration and Normative Values of the Functional Dexterity Test (FDT). Journal of Hand Surgery.
  • . . Let's all Write and Teach with e-Books!. TEchnology Innovations in Statistics Education.
  • , , , , , , & . . Radiographic detection of long screw placement durin volar plating of the distal radius. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.
  • . . Truth, Damn Truth, and Statistics. Journal of Statistics Education, 16(2).
  • , & . . Statistical Graphics: Mapping the Pathways of Science. Annual Review of Psychology, 52, 305-?.
  • , , & . . Blocked Adaptive Computationally-efficient Outlier Nomination. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 34, 279-298.
  • , & . . Design Principles for technology-based statistics education. Metrika, 51(1), 91-104.
  • . . Discussion of Hand’s article on scale types. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society.
  • , & . . Multimedia for Teaching Statistics: Promises and Pitfalls. The American Statistician, 50(3), 217-225.
  • , & . . A Critical Look at Some Analyses of Major League Baseball Salaries. The American Statistician, 49(3), 277-285.
  • , & . . A Debate on Scale Types. Statistical Consultant Newsletter.
  • , , , & . . Electronic Publications in Statistics - Ready or Not, Here They Come. The American Statistician, 48(3), 191-196.
  • , & . . Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, and Ratio Typologies are Misleading; Response. The American Statistician, 47(4), 315-316.
  • , & . . Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, and Ratio Typologies are Misleading. The American Statistician, 47(1), 65-72.
  • . . Measurement Theory: Fallacies and Transformations. The Statistical Consultant, 10(3).
  • , & . . Data Analysis. Perspectives on Contemporary Statistics, 21, 19-39.
  • , & . . Teaching Statistics with Computers. Perspectives on Contemporary Statistics, 21.
  • , & . . A Graphical Interface for Data Analysis. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 32, 223-228.
  • , & . . Discussion of "Diagnosing Near Collinearities in Least Squares Regression" by G W Stewart. Statistical Science, 2(1), 93-98.
  • . . Discussion of "Influential Observations, High Leverage Points, and Outliers in Linear Regression" by S. Chatterjee and A. Hadi. Statistical Science, 1, 412-413.
  • , & . . Efficient Scores, Variance Decompositions, and Monte Carlo Swindles. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 80, 851-862.
  • , & . . The Resistant Line and Related Regression Methods. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 80, 1041–1054.
  • , , , , & . . Ethnic Residential Concentration and the Protected Market Hypothesis. Social Forces, 63(4), 996-1009.
  • . . Comment on 'More Intelligent Statistical Software and Statistical Expert Systems: Future Directions'. The American Statistician, 39, 10-11.
  • , , & . . Generating Test Data with Independently Controllable Features for Multivariate General Linear Forms. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 78(383), 585-595.
  • . . Applied Nonlinear Data Smoothing. Sociological Methodology, 13, 141-177.
  • , & . . Interactive Regression Modeling: Response. Biometrics, 38, 513-516.
  • , & . . Efficient Computing of Regression Diagnostics. The American Statistician, 35(4), 234-242.
  • , & . . Building Multiple Regression Models Interactively. Biometrics, 37, 391-411.
  • , & . . Constructing Regressions with controlled Features: A Method of Probing Robust Regression Performance. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 75(372), 839-844.
  • . . Definition and Comparison of Robust Nonlinear Data Smoothing Algorithms. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 75, 609-615.
  • , & . . On Evaluating Interactive Statistical Program Packages. Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, 5(4), 197-205.
  • , , & . . Criteria and Considerations in the Evaluation of Statistical Program Packages. The American Statistician, 29, 52-56.
  • . . Project IMPRESS, Several Perspectives: Interactive Computing and Data Analysis. Behavioral Research Methods and Instrumentation, 6, 248-253.

Book Chapters

  • , & . . Exploratory Data Analysis. In APA Handbook of Research Methods in Psychology: Vol 3. Data Analysis and Research Publication. (pp. 51-70). American Psychological Association.
  • , & . . Exploratory Data Analysis. In APA Handbook of Research Methods in Psychology. American Psychological Association.
  • , & . . Statistical Graphics: A guidepost for scientific discovery. In Complementary Research Methods. (pp. 503-519).
  • , & . . Why Variances add - and Why it Matters. In Thinking and Reasoning with Data and Chance. National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
  • . . The Philosophical Past and The Digital Future of Data Analysis: 375 years of Philosophical Guidance for Software Design. In The Practice of Data Analysis, Essays in Honor of John W. Tukey. (pp. 317-337). Princeton University Press.
  • , & . . Using Exploratory Data Analysis to Monitor Socioeconomic Data Quality in Developing Countries. In Statistical Methods and the Improvement of Data Quality. (pp. 177-192). Academic Press.

Textbooks

  • , , , , & . . Stats in Your World. Pearson Education.
  • , , , , & . . Stats in Your World. Pearson.
  • , , & . . Stats:Data and Models 4th edition. Pearson.
  • , , & . . Business Statistics: A First Course. Pearson.
  • , , & . . Stats:Data and Models, 3rd edition. Pearson.
  • , , & . . Business Statistics, A First Course. Addison-Wesley.
  • , , & . . Business Statistics, 2nd ed. Addison Wesley.
  • , , & . . Intro Stats. Addison Wesley.
  • , , & . . STATS; Data and Models. Addison Wesley.
  • , , & . . Intro Stats, 3rd Edition. Addison-Wesley.
  • , , & . . Stats: Data and Models, 2nd Edition. Addison-Wesley.
  • . . Learning Data Analysis with Data Desk. Addison Wesley.

Conference Proceedings

  • , , & . . Shake, rattle and roll: some perturbation tools for analysis of regression data.
  • , , , & . . DASL, The Data And Story Library; An Online Resource for Teaching Statistics.
  • . . Serendipitous Data and Future Statistical Software.
  • , & . . The Kodiak Island Crab Fishery: A Graphical and Analytical Data Analysis.
  • . . Tukey’s Resistant Line and Related Methods: Asymptotics and Algorithms.
  • , , & . . Index of Available Statistical Software.
  • . . Robust Non-linear Data Smoothers: Definition and Recommendations.
  • . . Simulation Methods for Testing Non-Linear Data Smoothing Algorithms.
  • , & . . The Performance of Package Regression Routines Under Stress: A Preliminary Trial of a Regression Evaluation Method.
  • , & . . Straining Regressions.
  • . . Interactive Computing for Exploratory Data Analysis I: Display Algorithms.

Book Reviews

  • . . Review of 'Information Graphics' by Robert L Harris.
  • . . Review of 'The Practice of Data Analysis, Essays in Honor of John W. Tukey' edited by D R Brillinger, L T Fernholz, and S Morgenthaler.
  • . . Review of 'Computation for the Analysis of Designed Experiments' by Richard M Heiberger.
  • . . Review of 'Residuals and Influence in Regression' by R Dennis Cook and Sanford Weisberg.
  • . . Review of 'Monte Carlo Studies on Robustness' by Alfredo Rizzi.
  • . . Review of 'Proceedings of the Computer Science and Statistics: 12th Annual Symposium on the Interface' by Jane F Gentleman.

Instructor's Manuals

  • . . Data Desk Handbook, Statistics Guide, Reference Guide, and Quickstart Guide.

Books

  • , & . . Applications, Basics, and Computing of Exploratory Data Analysis. Duxbury Press.
  • , & . . LEDA and The SWAN. Kiewit Computation Center.

Book Sections

  • . . MECCA Users Manual.

Professional activities

  • A tablet-based interface for statistics. Presented to ASA. Montreal. 2013.
  • Truth, Damn Truth, and Teaching Statistics. Presented to California Mathematics Conference. Monterrey, CA. 2009.
  • Statistics is not a Spectator Sport. Ontario, Canada. 2009.

Honors and Awards

  • MacIntyre Award for Exemplary Teaching, ILR.
  • Golden Key Honorary Membership, Golden Key.
  • EDUCOM Medal for innovation in College Mathematics, EDUCOM/ EDUCAUSE.
  • Innovation in Using Technology in College Mathematics, ICTCM.
  • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
  • Fellow, American Statistical Association.