Jonathan P Williams

Teaching

When the mathematician expresses frustration that something in mathematics is hard to understand, they are really admitting a lack of capacity for understanding what the story is. When the student expresses frustration in learning mathematics, it is because they have not yet understood that a story exists.


• ST 790 Navigating the PhD program and beyond: perspectives, skills, and strategies. Fall 2024.
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• ST 453 Advanced computing for statistical reasoning. Fall 2024.
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  Spring 2023. Link: Student comments. Link: Student evaluation statistics.
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• ST 421 Introduction to mathematical statistics I. Fall 2024.
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• ST 705 Linear models and variance components. Spring 2024.
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  Spring 2023. Link: Student comments. Link: Student evaluation statistics.
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  Spring 2021. Link: Student comments. Student evaluation statistics were not collected due to COVID19.
  Spring 2020. Link: Student comments. Student evaluation statistics were not collected due to COVID19.
  
  
• ST 371 Introduction to probability and distribution theory. Fall 2020.
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• ST 502 Fundamentals of statistical inference II. Fall 2019.
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Resources

• Markov chain Monte Carlo simple example. As part of a short introduction to MCMC during a presentation, I wrote a simple MCMC example. I now find myself going back to these slides when I help people who are learning about the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm for the first time. The slides are available HERE, and the R source code is avaiable HERE. A good exercise for those who are new to MCMC is to recreate the example in R (or whatever language), referencing the R source code as needed.