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Scott Preston

Statistician, Associate Professor

308 Snygg Hall Department of Mathematics SUNY Oswego Oswego, NY 13126

315 312 2756 315 312 5424 fax srp@oswego.edu

Student information

Link to class pages.

Catalog information on courses I teach:

Introduction to Applied Statistics A and B (MAT 158/258)

Probability Theory (MAT 350)

Statistics for Scientists (MAT 318)

Mathematical Statistics A & B (Mat 354/454)

Design of Experiments (Mat 358)

Analysis (Mat 347 – maybe someday 447?)

Education

PhD. Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University.

My dissertation (pdf: quite large – about 130 pages). The margins are set for binding, and consequently are uneven.

B.S. Mathematics, University of Wisconsin.

Research interests

Statistics education.

Exact, unconditional tests for a difference in Poisson parameters; exact tests for goodness-of-fit to a Poisson distribution.

The effects of mowing on butterfly populations (jointly with Pete Weber, Biology).

Publications

Sign-Scored Testing for Ordered Alternatives in the One-Way Layout (pdf)

Teaching Prediction Intervals

CAFE (pdf) or CAFE (at the Journal of Statistics Education)

Effects of Field Mowing on Butterfly Assemblages (provisionally accepted for publication by the Natural Areas Journal; pdf)

Avian influenza as the Cause of Late Pleistocene Mammalian Megafaunal Extinctions in the Americas (submitted to Science; pdf)

Principal Value Mean (pdf; pretty much ready for submission)

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