Richard D. De Veaux

My email address is: deveaux@williams.edu

My permanent mailing address is

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Bronfman Science Center

Williams College

Williamstown, MA 01267

For the academic year 2006-2007 I will be visiting the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University as the William R. Kenan Jr. Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching.

For the academic year 2005-2006 I was a visiting professor at the UFR Biomédicale at the Université René Descartes in Paris, France.

For the academic year 2001-2002 I visited the Probability and Statistics Laboratory at the Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, France.

In 1997 –1998, I visited the Biometry Unit of I.N.R.A (the French Agricultural Institute) in Montpellier, France.

Research Interests

I am an applied statistician interested in data mining methodology and its application to problems in science and industry. These methods include artificial neural networks, and such techniques as decision trees, MARS, and boosting algorithms such as MART. I am also interested in model selection and other problems for large data sets.

Books

Intro Stats; Stats: Data and Models; Stats: Modeling the World

Business Statistics

Recent Talks

Slides for MAA Course January 3-4, 2009

Data Sets for MAA Course, January 3-4, 2009

Successful Exploratory Data Mining in Practice (JMP Explorer Series 2009)

Detroit, Princeton (Apr) Boston (May) LA (June) Cary,NC (July) Philadelphia (November)

Math is Music – Stats is Literature

BMCC March 11, SRU March 26, MSU March 31

Data Mining – Five Lessons Learned in the Pit

SRU March 26, MSU March 31