Mathematics & Statistics

Two statistics lecturers attended the United States Conference on Teaching Statistics held May 16-18 at Penn State University in State College, Pennsylvania. 

"Peer Reviewed Evaluation of Registered End-Points of Randomized Trials (the PRE-REPORT study): Protocol for a Stepped-Wedge, Cluster-Randomized Trial" was published June 1, 2019, in the journal BMJ Open.

The grant supports a collaboration between the mathematics club at Williams High School in Burlington and Elon. 

Elon alumna, Jaime Speiser '10, assistant professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Data Science at Wake Forest School of Medicine, provided the keynote address at the May 8 awards ceremony for the Math and Statistics Department. 

The new textbook leads students through inquiry exercises using Matlab and simulations. 

Through this two-year program, five rising juniors will participate in a combination of coursework, undergraduate research and community engagement in multifaith contexts.

HLA B*14:01 is associated with liver injury caused by the antibiotic Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole

Yokley and a collaborator have secured nearly $360,000 in National Science Foundation funding for multi-institutional "research experiences for undergraduates" in mathematical biology.

The economics and mathematics double major analyzed data from the National Center for Education Statistics’ High School Longitudinal Survey of 2009 to identify the driving factors contributing to female student STEM attrition rates. 

Aaron Trocki, assistant professor of mathematics, presented his research at the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education in Las Vegas on March 18-22, 2019.