About me

Hi! I’m an Assistant Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Carleton College. I teach statistics at all levels of the curriculum and am passionate about communicating the beauty and power of modern statistical methods to my students. My research focuses on incorporating realistic computation and visualization into the classroom, exploring the potential of visual inference, developing better visualizations to explore complex models, and developing useful and useable R packages.

2019-2020 academic year:

• Math 315: Bayesian statistics (Fall)
• Math 280: Statistical consulting (Fall, Winter, Spring)
• Math 285: Introduction to data science (Spring)

Past courses:

• Math 215: Introduction to statistics
• Math 245: Applied regression
• Math 265: Probability
• Math 275: Introduction to statistical inference

• Supporting Data Science in the Statistics Curriculum

  Details Project Journal

• A tale of four cities: exploring the soul of State College, Detroit, Milledgeville and Biloxi

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• Model Choice and Diagnostics for Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using Statistics on Street Corners

  Details PDF Code Journal

• Variations of Q-Q Plots: The Power of Our Eyes!

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• Are You Normal? The Problem of Confounded Residual Structures in Hierarchical Linear Models

  Details Code Journal

• Visual inference for model checking

  Wed, Jul 31, 2019, Joint Statistical Meetings

• A discussion of visual inference

  Wed, Dec 5, 2018, Invited Statistical Sciences Seminar Series

• Q-Q plots: To de-trend, or not to de-trend

  Thu, Nov 1, 2018, Macalester College MSCS Seminar

• Statistics in the data science curriculum

  Fri, Jan 12, 2018, The 2018 Liberal Arts Data Science Workshop

• Training Statisticians to Be Effective Instructors

  Mon, Jul 31, 2017, 2017 Joint Statistical Meetings

Let's connect!

• aloy@carleton.edu
• @aloy