Author: Amy S. Wagaman

Amy S. Wagaman, Ph D, is Associate Professor of Statistics at Amherst College. She received her doctorate in Statistics at the University of Michigan in 2008. Her research interests include nonparametric statistics, statistics education, dimension reduction and estimation, and covariance estimation and regularization. Robert P. Dobrow, Ph D, is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Carleton College. He has over 15 years of experience teaching probability and has authored numerous papers in probability theory, Markov chains, and statistics.