Paul F. Velleman

Paul F. Velleman (born April 16, 1949) is a Professor of statistics at Cornell University.[1]

Biography

Velleman got his Bachelor's Degree at Dartmouth College, and a PhD. at Princeton University.[2] 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 computer in teaching statistics, and the ICTCM Award for Innovation in Using Technology in College Mathematics. He developed the statistics program, Data Desk and the Internet site Data and Story Library (DASL),[3] which provides datasets for teaching statistics. In 1987 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[4]

Books

He is co-author (with Richard De Veaux and David Bock) of the books, 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. Paul 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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See also

References
  1. Faculty Page at Cornell University
  3. http://dasl.datadesk.com
  4. View/Search Fellows of the ASA, accessed 2016-11-01.
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