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Education

Professional Experience

Research Interests

• Mathematical Statistcs
• Linear Models
• Multivariate Analysis
• Robust Statistics
• Numerical Linear Algebra

Publications

1. Hyde, S. K. (2004). "Robust Methods for Multivariate Linear Models with Spectral Models for Scatter Matrices," Doctoral Dissertation, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT.
2. Boik, R. J., Todd, C., & Hyde, S. K. (2000). "Response Transformations in Repeated Measures and Growth Curves," Communications In Statistics---Theory And Methods, 29, pp. 699-733.
3. Hyde, S. K. (1999). "Likelihood Based Inference on the Box-Cox Family of Transformations: SAS and Matlab Programs," Major Professor - R. J. Boik. Technical Report, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Montana State University. Abstract. Reprints: (PDF), (PS).

Teaching Experience

• Liberal Arts Mathematics. A basic math course covering fundamentals in number systems, trigonometry, financial math, probability, and descriptive statistical techniques. Taught Spring 1997, Summer 1997, Summer 1998, and Summer 2003.
• Trigonometry and Analytic Geometry. Circular functions, triangle relationships, identities, inverse trigonometric functions, triogonometric equations, vectors, complex numbers, Demoivre's Theorem and analytic geometry. Taught Fall 2006 and Fall 2007.
• Business Calculus. A survey of basic calculus including limits, differentiation, and integration with applications to business and social science problems. Taught Fall 1996.
• Calculus & Analytic Geometry I. Covering functions, elementary transcendental functions, limits and continuity, differentiation, integration, analytic geometry, and applications. Taught Fall 1998 and Fall 2006.
• Calculus & Analytic Geometry II. Covering methods of integration, applications of the integral, first order differential equations, Taylor polynomial and series. Taught Spring 2001, Fall 2001, Spring 2002, Fall 2002, Spring 2003, Fall 2004, Fall 2005, and Winter 2007.
• College Algebra. Functions, polynomials, theory of equations, exponential and logarithmic functions, matrices, determinants, systems of linear equations, permutations, combinations, binomial theorem. Taught Winter 2004, Summer 2004, Winter 2006 and Summer 2006
• Differential Equations. Methods used in solving ordinary differential equations and their applications. Numerical methods, series solutions, and Laplace Transforms. Taught Fall 2005 and Fall 2006.
• Matrix Theory and Modeling. Matrix algebra, systems of linear equations, determinants, vector algebra, geometry in Euclidean 3-space, eigenvalues, eigenvectors. Taught Fall 2000 and Fall 2003.
• Elementary Linear Algebra. Linear systems, matrices, vectors and vector spaces, linear transformation, determinants, quadratic forms, Eigenvalues, and Eigenvectors. Taught Fall 2007.
• Introduction to Statistics I. Covering traditional and robust estimates of location and variability, fundamentals of probability theory, confidence intervals and tests of hypotheses for normal distributions. Taught Fall 1997, Spring 1998, Summer 2001, Summer 2002.
• Introduction to Statistics II. Statistical analysis using the computer. One and two sample test with confidence intervals for means and proportions; one-way analysis of variance; F-tests; multiple comparisons; correlation, contingency tables. Taught Spring 1999.
• Principles of Statistics I. Descriptive statistics, elementary probability, central tendency, variability, random variables (discrete and continuous) confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, linear regression, ANOVA, contingency tables. Taught Winter 2004, Summer 2004, Fall 2004, Winter 2005, Summer 2005, Fall 2005, Winter 2006, Summer 2007, Fall 2007, and Winter 2008.
• Foundations of Mathematics. Set theory, logic, development of number systems and axiomatic systems. Attention is also given to the history of mathematics and famous mathematicians. Taught Winter 2008.
• Mathematical Statistics. Probability, random variables, sampling distributions, estimation and hypothesis testing, regression and correlation. Taught Winter 2005, Winter 2006, Winter 2007, and Winter 2008.

Invited Presentations

• "Robust Estimation of the Covariance Matrix", Montana Chapter of the American Statistical Association, Butte, Montana, September 2002

Skills

• Programming expertise in Matlab, SAS, LaTeX 2e, Pascal, C, HTML, Unix Shell Programming, Bash Shell Programming, and HP48 calculator programming.
• Programming experience in R (or S-plus), Maple, Perl and assembly.
• Experience with: Unix (Solaris), Gentoo Linux, and Windows operating systems.

Conferences Attended

• 9th Asian Technology Conference in Mathematics (ATCM 2004), hosted by National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. December 13-17, 2004
• 2007 SOCR/CAUSEway continuing education workshop at the University of California at Los Angeles. August 6-8, 2007.

Professional Activities

• 1996-2003 - Attended annual meetings of the Montana Chapter of the American Statistical Association, Butte, MT.

Professional Societies

• American Statistical Association
• Mathematical Association of America
• Institute of Mathematical Statistics
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

Honors

• Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Montana State University - Bozeman, 2002.
• Outstanding PhD student in Statistics, Montana State University - Bozeman, 2000.
• Graduated Summa Cum Laude (Brigham Young University - Hawaii, 1996)
• Phi Kappa Phi (Brigham Young University - Hawaii, 1994)
• Academic Merit Full Tuition Scholarship (Brigham Young University - Hawaii, 1992-96)
• Eagle Scout Award (Boy Scouts of America, 1989)