Research Interests

Linda Collins specializes in undergraduate teaching, works on undergraduate curriculum planning in the Department of Statistics and supervises all teaching by Department graduate students.

Dr. Collins is active in the Statistics Education community, is a member of the American Statistical Association's Section on Statistical Education and has attended a variety of conferences on elements of statistical learning, classroom assessment tools and curriculum design. Recently, she has been developing classroom materials to encourage new teachers to engage in active learning practices in the Statistics classroom.

To keep current in other areas of statistics, she is currently reading up on the analysis of time dependent data, Monte Carlo methods and their applications and inference for designed experiments. She is also researching ways to bring concepts from Bayesian statistical methodolgy
into the (non-calculus) introductory statistics course.

Last update: 3/06

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