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Contact Information

Name: William Whipple Neely

Email:

neely{at}stat[dot]wisc[dot]edu

Office: 1205-C MSC

Links

UW Madison:

Statistics Department

Center for Demography & Ecology

Sociology Department

Social Sciences Computing Cooperative

University of Washington:

Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences

Mathematics Department

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center:

Quantitative Genetic Epidemiology

Statistical Software:

CDE R Short Course

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QUOTE OF THE MONTH

“l'enfer, c'est les autres.”

-- Jean-Paul Sartre

Who I am

I am a mid-career student who has returned to school to study statistics and its applications to social science. Previously, I earned a Ph.D in mathematics from the University of Washington in Seattle. After finishing my mathematics degree in 1994 I taught mathematics at Seattle University and the University of Washington for two years. In 1996 I began working as a consultant on a project to develop a Kalman Filter and this lead to a switch from academia to industry where I worked as an applied mathematician and software developer. My research in mathematics involved using differential geometric properties of singular complex varieties to study their L2 cohomology groups. In 2002 I decided to return to a research environment and began working with the Quantitative Genetic Epidemiology group at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. While working at FHCRC I fell in love with statistics and decided that the best way to pursue a career that combined statistics with research that could benefit public health would be to return to school for a second advanced degree. My full CV can be found online here.