Statistics
Who We Are


Phone: 616-331-3355
Cheryl Smalley
smalleyc@gvsu.edu

Department of Statistics
A-1-178 Mackinac Hall
616-331-3355
 
Paul Stephenson
Chair, Associate Professor
Office: MAK A-1-170
Tel.: 331-2081
PhD:  Clemson, 1995
Applications and Expertise: quality control,
design of experiments
Hired at GVSU:  1995
 
 
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Cheryl Smalley
e-mail: smalleyc@gvsu.edu
Academic Department Coordinator
Office: MAK A-1-178
Tel.: 331-3355
Hired at GVSU:  1997
 
   
Tenure Track Faculty
 
Kirk Anderson
e-mail: anderkir@gvsu.edu
Assistant Professor
Office: MAK A-1-110
Tel.: 331-3674
PhD:  WesternMichiganUniversity, 2002
Applications and Expertise: nonparametric statistics, medical applications of statistics
Hired at GVSU:  2003
 
 
   
Phyllis Curtiss
e-mail: curtissp@gvsu.edu
Associate Professor
Office: MAK C-2-509
Tel.: 331-3363
PhD:  Bowling GreenStateUniversity, 1999
Applications and Expertise: nonparametric statistics, mathematical statistics
Hired at GVSU:  1998
 
 
   
 
Bob Downer
e-mail: downerr@gvsu.edu
Associate Professor
Office: MAK A-1-112
Tel.: 331-2247
PhD: Dalhousie University, 1997
Applications and Expertise: biostatistics
Hired at GVSU: 2005
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Daniel Frobish
e-mail: frobishd@gvsu.edu
Assistant Professor
Office: MAK A-1-164
Tel.: 331-3028
PhD: Northern IllinoisUniversity, 2006
Applications and Expertise: biostatistics and survival analysis
Hired at GVSU:  2006
 
   
 
 
John Gabrosek
e-mail: gabrosej@gvsu.edu
Associate Professor
Office: MAK C-2-511
Tel.: 331-3691
PhD:  IowaStateUniversity, 1999
Applications and Expertise: statistics in sports, statistical education, spatial statistics
Hired at GVSU:  1999
 
 
   
Soon Hong
e-mail: hongs@gvsu.edu
Professor
Office: MAK C-2-507
Tel.: 331-2057
PhD:  University of New Mexico, 1987
Applications and Expertise: multivariate data analysis, statistical computing
 Hired at GVSU:  1987
 
 
   
Jann-Huei Jinn
e-mail: jinnj@gvsu.edu
Professor
Office: MAK A-1-162
Tel.: 331-2312
PhD:  StateUniversity of New York at Albany, 1987
Applications and Expertise: bayesian statistics, missing data
 Hired at GVSU:  1991
 
 
   
Sango Otieno                                                                
Assistant Professor
Office: MAK A-1-166
Tel.: 331-2832
PhD:  Virginia Tech, 2002
Applications and Expertise: directional data, time series analysis
Hired at GVSU:  2003
 
 
   
   
 
 
 
 
Diann Reischman
e-mail: reischmd@gvsu.edu
Associate Professor
Office: MAK C-2-515
Tel.: 331-3365
PhD:  University of Missouri - Columbia, 1998
Applications and Expertise: medical statistics, mathematical statistics
Hired at GVSU:  1998
 
   
   
 
 
 
 
Mary Richardson
e-mail: richamar@gvsu.edu
Associate Professor
Office: MAK A-1-168
Tel.: 331-3364
PhD:  University of Missouri - Columbia, 1997
Applications and Expertise: statistics education            
Hired at GVSU:  2001
 
   
   
 
 
 
 
Neal Rogness
e-mail: rognessn@gvsu.edu
Associate Professor
Office: MAK A-1-160
Tel.: 331-2447
PhD:  University of Northern Colorado, 1993
Applications and Expertise: questionnaire design, sampling
Hired at GVSU:  1994
 
 
   
Gerald Shoultz
e-mail: shoultzg@gvsu.edu 
Assistant Professor
Office: MAK A-1-114
Tel.: 331-8689
PhD: University of South Carolina, 2004
Applications and Expertise: biostatistics, spatial statistics
Hired at GVSU:  2005
 
 
   
David Zeitler
e-mail: zeitlerd@gvsu.edu
Assistant Professor
Office: MAK A-1-108
Tel.: 331-2825
PhD:  Western Michigan University, 2001
Applications and Expertise: engineering statistics, stochastic processes
Hired at GVSU:  2004
 
 
   
 
Affiliate Faculty
Lori Hahn                           e-mail: hahnlo@gvsu.edu
Affiliate Faculty
Office: MAKA-1-156
Tel.: 331-8685
Hired at GVSU:  2007
 
 
 
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Becky Twing              e-mail: twingbe@gvsu.edu
Affiliate Faculty
Office: MAKA-1-154
Tel.: 331-8957
Hired at GVSU:  2008
 
 
Visiting Faculty
 
Scott Kosten                 e-mail: kostens@gvsu.edu
Office: MAK A-1-158
 
Bill Plouff                       e-mail: plouffw@gvsu.edu
Office: MAK A-1-158
 
Jie Wang                       e-mail: wangji@gvsu.edu
Office: MAK A-1-116
 
Adjunct Faculty
Robert Flikkema            e-mail: flikkemr@gvsu.edu
Office: MAK A-1-118
Tel: 331-8938
Jennifer Hower               e-mail: howerj@gvsu.edu
Office: MAK A-1-118
Tel.: 331-8938
Michael Kinlaw               e-mail: kinlawmi@gvsu.edu
Office: MAK A-1-118
Tel.: 331-8938
John Kinnane                 e-mail: kinnanjo@gvsu.edu
Office: MAK A-1-120
Tel.: 331-3017
Dale Lamps                   e-mail: lampsd@gvsu.edu
Office: MAK C-2-503
Tel.: 331-3403
Rob Lievense                 e-mail: lievensr@gvsu.edu
Office: MAK A-1-120
Tel.: 331-3017
Mary Luttenton               e-mail: luttemar@gvsu.edu
Office: MAK A-1-120
Tel.: 331-3017
Lori McElhaney              e-mail: mcelhanl@gvsu.edu
Office: MAK A-1-120
Tel: 331-3017
Wayne Petroelje            e-mail: waynep@oe.edzone.net
Patricia Stephenson       e-mail: stephepa@gvsu.edu
Office: MAK A-1-158
Tel.: 331-8684
Joel Yates                     e-mail: yatesjo@gvsu.edu
Mark Youngren              e-mail: youngrem@gvsu.edu
Office: MAK A-1-118
Tel.: 331-8938
  Last Modified Date: September 11, 2009
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