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Fall 2009

Student Projects Supervised:

• Senior Comps 2006-07: Emily Bercos-Hickey, Fred Cudhea, Toshiki Tanaka, Tara Van Velzen, Jake Zivin
  Target Corporation Modeling Resource Costs of Security Incidents
   
• Senior Comps 2005-06: Maria Bruun, Jennifer Grover, Andrew Little, Molly Miller, Pei Zhuan
  Northwest Airlines Understanding and Predicting Passenger Behavior
   
• Summer Research 2008: Daniel Able & Andy Lithio (St. Olaf College); Piaomu Liu & Bassirou Sarr (Carleton College)
  Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Statewide Survey of Minnesota Lake Sediments:
  Recommendations on Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Anthropogenic Background Concentrations of Metals with Left-Censored Data
   
• Senior Comps 2008-2009: Joseph Lindner, Samantha Morin, Khanh Nguyen, Max Olivier
  CMS Direct Product Purchasing Analysis
   

Statistics!

• Opportunities in Statistics: A sampling of internships, jobs, and educational programs in statistics.
   
• S-PLUS and R (Statistical software)
   
• S-PLUS Insightful Corporation
   
  Free student version
   
• R (freeware) R is a dialect of the S language
   
• Handouts Mini-tutorials of basic S-PLUS/R commands