Paul F. Velleman is a Professor

Professor

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 of statistics

Statistics

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 at Cornell University

Cornell University

Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...

. Velleman has an international reputation for innovative statistics education.

Biography

Velleman got his Bachelor's Degree

Bachelor's degree

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 at Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College

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, and a PhD. at Princeton University

Princeton University

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He is the author and designer of the multimedia statistics CD-ROM

CD-ROM

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, 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

Data Desk

Data Desk is a software program for visual data analysis, visual data exploration, and statistics. It carries out Exploratory Data Analysis and standard statistical analyses by means of dynamically linked graphic data displays that update any change simultaneously.-History:Data Desk was developed...

 and the Internet site Data and Story Library (DASL), which provides datasets for teaching statistics.
He owns a pond in Ithaca.

Books

He is co-author (with Richard DeVeaux and David Bock) of the books, Intro Stats, Stats: Modeling the World, and Stats: Data and Models, and the co-author (with David Hoaglin) of ABCs of Exploratory Data Analysis
Paul has taught Statistics at Cornell University since 1975. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association

American Statistical Association

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 and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

American Association for the Advancement of Science

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