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William M. Duckworth

William M. Duckworth

William M. Duckworth specializes in statistics education, business applications of statistics, and design of experiments. He holds a B.S. and an M.S. from Miami University (Ohio) in mathematics and statistics and a PhD in statistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His professional affiliations include the American Statistical Association (ASA), the International Association for Statistical Education (IASE), and the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI). He currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Statistics Education and has served as the ASA Editor for Statistics Education Web Content. Professor Duckworth was also a member of the Undergraduate Statistics Education Initiative (USEI), which developed curriculum guidelines for undergraduate programs in statistical science that were officially adopted by the ASA. Professor Duckworth has published research papers and been invited to speak at professional meetings and at company training workshops. During his tenure in the Statistics Department at Iowa State University, his main responsibility was coordinating, teaching, and improving introductory business statistics courses for over one thousand business students a year. He received the Iowa State University Foundation Award for Early Achievement in Teaching, based in part on his improvements to introductory business statistics. Professor Duckworth now teaches business statistics in the College of Business Administration at Creighton University.
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William M. Duckworth

William M. Duckworth

William M. Duckworth specializes in statistics education, business applications of statistics, and design of experiments. He holds a B.S. and an M.S. from Miami University (Ohio) in mathematics and statistics and a PhD in statistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His professional affiliations include the American Statistical Association (ASA), the International Association for Statistical Education (IASE), and the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI). He currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Statistics Education and has served as the ASA Editor for Statistics Education Web Content. Professor Duckworth was also a member of the Undergraduate Statistics Education Initiative (USEI), which developed curriculum guidelines for undergraduate programs in statistical science that were officially adopted by the ASA. Professor Duckworth has published research papers and been invited to speak at professional meetings and at company training workshops. During his tenure in the Statistics Department at Iowa State University, his main responsibility was coordinating, teaching, and improving introductory business statistics courses for over one thousand business students a year. He received the Iowa State University Foundation Award for Early Achievement in Teaching, based in part on his improvements to introductory business statistics. Professor Duckworth now teaches business statistics in the College of Business Administration at Creighton University.