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Georgie R. Baker
Senior Instructor (M.S. 1996, University of South Carolina)
Quality Control.
Graduate Coordinator and Assistant to the Chair.

Ian L. Dryden
Professor (Ph.D. 1989, University of Leeds)
Shape Analysis, Statistical Image Analysis, Medical Image Analysis, Spatial Statistics, High-Dimensional Data Analysis.

Don Edwards
Professor (Ph.D. 1981, Ohio State University)
Sampling, Response Surface Methodology, Measures of Inter-rater Agreement
Department Chair.

John M. Grego
Associate Professor (Ph.D. 1989, Pennsylvania State University)
Robust Parametric Design, Semiparametric Mixture Models, and Statistical Consulting.
Director, Statistical Consulting Laboratory
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Brian T. Habing
Associate Professor (Ph.D. 1998, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Psychometrics - Item Response Theory, Scale Construction, Multivariate Statistics, and Educational Measurement. Director of Undergraduate Studies

Leslie Hendrix
Instructor(B.S. 2002, University of South Carolina)

David B. Hitchcock
Assistant Professor (Ph.D. 2004, University of Florida)
Functional Data Analysis, Smoothing Methods, Multivariate Data Analysis, History of Statistics

Xianzheng (Shan) Huang
Assistant Professor (Ph.D. 2006, North Carolina State University)
Joint Modeling, Robust Statistical Inference, Mixed Effect Models, Longitudinal Data Analysis

Xiaoyan (Iris) Lin
Visiting Assistant Professor (Ph.D. Missouri 2008)
Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling, Objective Bayesian Analysis, Item Response Theory

Edsel A. Peña
Professor (Ph.D. 1986, Florida State University)
Mathematical Statistics, Semi- and Non-parametrics, Survival Analysis, Reliability, Applied Stochastic Processes.

Maureen Petkewich
Instructor (M.S. 2003, University of South Carolina)
 

Wilma Sims
Manager, Statistical Consulting Laboratory (M.S. 2000, University of South Carolina)

Joshua M. Tebbs
Associate Professor (Ph.D. 2000, North Carolina State University)
Categorical Data Analysis, Group Testing, Order-Restricted Inference, Bayesian Methods, Multiple Comparisons, Epidemiology/Public Health, Biomedical Applications.

Lianming Wang
Assistant Professor (Ph.D. University of Missouri 2006)
Survival Analysis, Bayesian analysis, Non- and Semi-Parametrics, Multivariate Analysis.

Ou Zhao
Assistant Professor (Ph.D. 2008, University of Michigan)
Probability Theory, Mathematical Statistics, Nonparametrics, Computing


Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Stephen D. Durham
Distinguished Professor Emeritus (Ph.D. 1969, University of California, Davis)
Applied Probability, Stress-Strength Analysis, Adaptive Sampling, Bioassay.

James D. Lynch
Professor (Ph.D. 1974, Florida State University)
Reliability, Life Testing, Probability, Stochastic Processes, Mixture Models.

William J. Padgett
Distinguised Professor Emeritus (Ph.D. 1971, Virginia Polytechnic Inst. & State University)
Reliability, Life Testing, Survival Analysis, Nonparametric Estimation, Bayesian Estimation, Statistical Quality Control.

John D. Spurrier
Distinguised Professor Emeritus (Ph.D. 1974, U. of Missouri)
Nonparametrics, Multiple Comparisons, Statistical Education.


Adjunct Faculty

Tammiee S. Dickenson
Research Assistant Professor and Director, Office of Program Evaluation, USC College of Education (Ph.D. 2005, University of South Carolina)
Research interests: Applied multilevel modeling including growth models, Item Response Theory

James W. Hardin
Research Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Ph.D. 1992, Texas A&M)
Research interests: Generalized linear models, generalized estimating equations, survival models, and computational statistics

Huynh Huynh
Professor, Department of Educational Psychology (Ph.D. 1969, University of Iowa)
Research interests: educational research.

Elizabeth H. Slate
Professor, Medical University of South Carolina, Department of Biometry and Epidemiology (Ph.D. 1991, Carnegie Mellon)
Research Interests: Biostatistics and survival analysis

R. Cary Tuckfield
Section Leader - Statistical Consulting, Savannah River Technology Center (Ph.D. 1985, Indiana University)
Research Interests: Evironmental statistics, ecology, applied statistics

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