Jo Hardin’s Home Page

Jo Hardin Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics Pomona College 610 N. College Ave. Claremont, CA 91711 (909) 607-8717 jo.hardin@pomona.edu http://pages.pomona.edu/~jsh04747

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Courses:

Fall 2008: Math 152 (Statistical Theory); Math 157 (Stats for Clinical Trials)

Spring 2008: Math 155 (Statistical Analysis of Genetic Data)

Fall 2007: ID1 (Statistics in the Real World); Math 152 (Statistical Theory); Math 58 (Introduction to Statistics)

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Senior Thesis Students:

• Veronica Montes De Oca (2003): “Methods for Evaluating Health Care Claims Data” (an application of Bootstrapping); Ph.D. 2008, Applied Statistics, University of California, Riverside

• Lee Strassenburg (December, 2004): “A Statistical Comparison of the Average Waiting Times Between Flares in Lupus Patients”

• Joseph Richards (2005): “Classification of Geologic Units on Ganiki Planitia Quadrangle (V14) Venus Using Statistical Clustering Methods”
• Alison Wise (2005): “Statistical Analysis of Microarrays to Determine Genetic Changes in Aging Yeast”

• Aya Mitani (Pitzer, 2006): “Biweight Correlation as a Measure of Distance between Genes on a Microarray” (abstract, presentation); MPH 2008, Biostatistics, Yale

• Jeffery Joe Nanda (2007): “Correcting for Bias in Correlation Coefficients Due to Intraindividual Variability”
• Andrea Vijverberg (2007): “Clustering Microarray Data”
• Jonathan Buster Zalkind (2007): “Four Colors is not Enough: Visualizations of Simulated Spatial-Model Elections Under Different Voting Methods”

• Nick Conway (2008): “A Resistant Measure of Distance in DNA Microarrays”
• Austen Head (2008): “Correlation Correction of Sample Measures from Bivariate Distributions”
• Robert Kurtzman (2008): “The Advantages of a Biweight Metric in Clustering Microarray Data”

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Research:

Education:

· Ph.D., Statistics, University of California, Davis, 2000

· M.S., Statistics, University of California, Davis, 1997

· B.A., Mathematics, Pomona College, 1995

Interests:

I chose to become a statistician because of the myriad of different mathematical applications to the real world available in the field. I have had the opportunity to work in the medical field deriving methodology to analyze a new branch of science arising from the study of the human genome. My work involves analysis of different types of microarray (genetic) data that don't conform to the usual assumptions needed for statistical analyses. Currently, I am developing new statistical techniques to analyze such data with particular interest in clustering, correlation, and outlier detection.

· Statistics

· Bioinformatics

· Analysis of Microarrays

· Clustering

· Correlation

· Outlier Detection

Papers / Publications

CV

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Links to Data Sets on the WWW:

(Thanks to Robin Lock at St. Lawrence University for many of the links below. If you find other good data sources, please let me know, and I’ll add the links to the web site.)

• Sports Data
• Other Data

Cool Stat/Math Links:

• The Universität Bielefeld maintains a web site of the genealogy of mathematicians. You can see who was descendant from whom (mathematically.)
• Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles
• History of Mathematics archive
• Gary C. Ramseyer’s First Internet Gallery of Statistics Jokes
• Biographies of Women Mathematicians
• The Correlation Game – PC, not ranked
• Let’s Make a Deal
• Free-Throw Applet
• CLT Applet
• Earliest known uses of math words
• Claremont Colleges Chapter of Sigma Xi
• Southern California American Statistical Association (SCASA)