Assistant Professor, Mathematics & Statistics
E-mail address: harvill@math.msstate.edu
Website: http://www.msstate.edu/dept/math/websites/faculty/harvill.html
Dr. Jane Harvill received her Ph.D. in Statistics in 1994 from Texas A&M University. Since 1998, she has been an Assistant Professor of Statistics in the Department of Statistics at Mississippi University. From 1994 until 1998, she was an Assistant Professor of Applied Statistics in the Department of Applied Statistics and Operations Research at Bowling Green State University, where she served as the Graduate Coordinator of the Masters in Applied Statistics Program.
Dr. Harvill's area of research is nonlinear time series and computational statistics. She has published a number of papers integrating the two areas. She has received funding for her work in these areas from the National Science Foundation. Funding from the National Institute of Health supports her work in Quality Control in conjunction with a project Epidemiology on the Internet, co-sponsored by the World Health Organization, based at the University of Pittsburgh. She also serves as an associate editor for The Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation and for Computational Statistics.
She has served as a Faculty Consultant for Advanced Placement Statistics. She has co-authored a statistics textbook and software StatConcepts: A Visual Tour of Statistical Ideas, with H. Joseph Newton of Texas A&M University. Stemming from the success of the book and software, she has published papers in statistical education, and has given invited presentations on using graphics to teach statistics and statistics to teach graphics. She is an active member of the Statistical Education Section of the American Statistical Association. She has refereed numerous papers on statistical education, and reviewed a number of statistics texts and software packages. Dr. Harvill also has experience in using the internet to teach statistics. She currently maintains a website for each of the classes she teaches. She continues to stay current in developments in using internet materials to teach statistics.
