Nels's Page

Hello, I am Nels G. Johnson, Ph.D. student in the Department of Statistics at Virginia Tech and this is my website. Here you will find some basics concerning my current TA duties, course load, contact information, as well as some other odds and ends.

Research interests and experience:

My research time is divided between my work as a lead statistical collaborator for the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis (LISA) and my dissertation work on covariate measurement error in matched case-control studies with my advisor Dr. Inyoung Kim. At LISA I work predominantly with Virginia Tech graduate students from the areas of biology, ecology, entomology, forestry, fisheries, and biological systems engineering. Outside of these areas I recently worked on a large group collaborative project brought to LISA by Dr. Ralph Hall from the School of Public and International Affairs concerning productive water use in Senegal and Kenya.

As an undergraduate I was apart of the UNCG Math-Bio Undergraduate Fellowship and worked on the mathematical modeling of social insect behavior.

I am familiar with the following statistical/mathematical software packages:

R
SAS
JMP
Matlab
Minitab
SPSS

TA Duties

LISA: Statistical Collaborator

Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Summer 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Summer 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Summer 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012.

Grader

STAT-4105, STAT-5615, Fall 2008; STAT-4105, Summer 2009.

Instructor

STAT-3005, Summer 2010.

Official course load (excludes core courses):

Spring 2010

STAT-5984 SS: The History of Statistics
STAT-6114 Advanced Inference
STAT-6474 Adv Topics Bayesian Statistics
STAT-6515 Advanced Topics in Regression

Fall 2009

BIOL-5034 Ecosystem Dynamics
STAT-5994 SS: Hierarchical Models
STAT-6105 Measure and Probability

Spring 2009

STAT-5304 Statistical Computing
STAT-5454 Reliability Theory
STAT-5504 Multivariate Methods

Fall 2008

STAT-5444 Bayesian Statistics
STAT-5514 Regression Analysis
STAT-5544 Spatial Statistics
STAT-5894 SS: Environmental Statistics

Links:

UNCG Math and Stat Department

Last Updated December 2011.