My post-Vassar professional involvements have been chiefly in the realm of statistical theory and methodology and in computational statistics. A few years prior to retirement I had begun developing web-based software for statistical computation along with a free online statistics textbook. In the years since retirement, I have worked steadily on maintaining and expanding these two web entities:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
VassarStats: Website for Statistical Computation<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Concepts & Applications of Inferential Statistics<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Partly in consequence of these projects, I have found myself spending quite a lot of time serving as statistical referee for two medical journals and as the statistical participant in several medical research projects. Beginning in 2011, I have also served in a statistical capacity on the editorial board of the International Journal of Lexicography. In case medical statistics and lexicography seem rather far afield for a retired professor of psychology, I’ll enhance the impression by mentioning a co-authored paper on circuit-breaker malfunction, currently in press in an engineering journal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another public component of my post-Vassar life, technical though not professional, is involvement in the creation and maintenance of websites for several non-profit organizations, including the AEVC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not the least attraction and benefit of retirement is having the time to do what one has always wanted to do but could never quite manage while working for a living and building a career. At the age of nine I fell in love with the violin, but was not able to take it up until nearly fifty years later. Early on in the years of my retirement, I discovered that what I had really fallen in love with was the viola, the more sonorous alto member of the family. Every hour that I might otherwise have been spending in a meeting of department, committee, or faculty is now spent practicing my beloved viola. Scales and arpeggios, arpeggios and scales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Posted: January 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My post-Vassar professional involvements have been chiefly in the realm of statistical theory and methodology and in computational statistics. A few years prior to retirement I had begun developing web-based software for statistical computation along with a free online statistics … Continue reading