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David Doane
David P. Doane is accredited by the American Statistical Association as a Professional Statistician (PStat®). He is professor emeritus in Oakland University’s Department of Decision and Information Sciences. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and economics at the University of Kansas and his PhD from Purdue University’s Krannert Graduate School. His research and teaching interests include applied statistics, forecasting, and statistical education. He is co-recipient of three National Science Foundation grants to develop software to teach statistics and to create a computer classroom. He is a longtime member of the American Statistical Association, serving in 2002 as president of the Detroit ASA. He has consulted with governments, health care organizations, and local firms. He has published articles in many academic journals. He currently belongs to ASA chapters in San Diego and Orange County/Long Beach.
Lori Seward
Lori Seward is a teaching professor in The Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado in Boulder. She earned her Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Industrial Engineering at Virginia Tech. After several years working as a reliability and quality engineer in the paper and automotive industries, she earned her PhD from Virginia Tech and joined the faculty at The Leeds School in 1998. Professor Seward has served as the faculty director of Leeds’ MBA programs since 2017. She currently teaches as well as coordinates the core statistics course for the Leeds full-time, Professional, and Executive MBA programs. She served as the chair of the INFORMS Teachers’ Workshop for the annual 2004 meeting. Her teaching interests focus on developing pedagogy used for Leeds’ various hybrid MBA programs. Leeds’ recent hybrid course designs received the 2022 Brandon Hall Award for Best Use of Video for Learning. Her most recent article, co-authored with David Doane and Kevin Murphy, was published in the Journal of Aging Research (2022).
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