Teaching
Current Courses
STAT 301 — Introduction to Probability for Statistics
Fall 2025
Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics
Case Western Reserve University
Past Courses
Case Western Reserve University
STAT 244 — Statistical Theory with Applications II
Spring 2024, Spring 2025
STAT 526 — Statistical Learning Theory
Fall 2024
STAT 243 — Statistical Theory with Applications I
Fall 2023, Fall 2024
Penn State University
Department of Statistics
STAT 414 — Introduction to Probability
Fall 2021, Fall 2022
University of Minnesota
School of Statistics
STAT 4101 — Introduction to Statistics
2019
Fun Statistics
A small collection of lighthearted statistics jokes and puns written by my students over the years. I include these to celebrate their creativity and to remind us that statistics can be both rigorous and fun.
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“Why did the statistician bring a ladder to class? Because the confidence intervals were too high!”
“Never trust graphing calculators. They're plotting something — I can feel it.”
Knock knock.
Who's there?
Geometric.
Geometric who?
Oh… I forgot.
“Two random variables were fighting — one was Geometric, and the other was his brother who was a bit too Hyper.”
“Two random variables were talking in a bar: they thought they were being discrete, but I heard them continuously.”
“Why is a decimal so clever? Because it always has a point.”
“I tried to teach my cat the Greek alphabet, but we only got as far as \( \mu \).”
A random variable went on vacation. Where did it go?
Monty Hall recommended Florida — but if it doesn’t like it, it can always switch!
STATen Island
The Bay (to work on Bayes’ theorem)
The Carri“bayesian”
The expected place
The probabilicity
The Democratic Republic of the Combo