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<p>Michael Floren, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics at Misericordia University, recently presented his scholarly work at the prestigious international Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM) hosted by the American Statistical Association (ASA) in Denver, Colorado in July. He offered two presentations based on research from his dissertation, &#8220;On the Small Count Inflated Poisson Distribution,&#8221; which was completed in 2018. </p><p>JSM is the world&#8217;s largest annual conference for statistics, run by statistical societies from around the world, such as the ASA, the International Biometric Society, and the Institute of Mathematica Statistics, as well as societies in Canada, China, Korea, India, Britain and the International Statistical Institute. ASA is the world&#8217;s largest community of statisticians and the oldest continuously operating professional science society in the United States. It has members in industry, government and academia in 90 countries.</p><p>Floren joined the Misericordia faculty in 2018, and serves as chair of the Bachelor of Science degree program in statistics. He holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in mathematics and math education from Bethel University and his doctorate in applied statistics and research methods from the University of Northern Colorado. While in graduate school, he served as a statistical consultant in the College of Education and Behavioral Sciences at Northern Colorado for six years, prior to coming to Misericordia University.</p><p>He was one of the three authors for the article, &#8220;What Makes a Good Statistical Consultant?&#8221; published May 6 in The Qualitative Report. He is working on a follow-up article on consulting behavior. He has also worked to develop a statistical instrument to help develop standard practices for the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation, and is examining ways to determine the best pedagogy to teach counselors professional competencies.</p><p>With his wife, Kiley, he founded the statistical consulting company, Practical Statistics. Among their numerous projects are an analysis of social media data for the Fellowship Church in Dallas, and a study of data regarding the effects of short missionary trips. In addition, he has established a Statistical Consulting Center at Misericordia University, offering statistical consulting and advice on research methodology to faculty and staff.</p><p>Over the past year, he filmed a series of videos in conjunction with the popular textbook, &#8220;Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics Using R.&#8221; These videos provide step-by-step instructions on the use of the R Project for Statistical Computing program for statistics.</p><style>
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Misericordia University professor presents work in Colorado