CHANDRA Lea Erdman

Yale University
P.O. Box 208290
New Haven, CT 06520-8290
(203) 432-0666

chandra.erdman@aya.yale.edu

EDUCATION

Yale University Ph.D., Statistics Dissertation: Bayesian Change Point Analysis with Applications to Microarray Data	New Haven, CT May 2009
Columbia University M.A., Statistics	New York, NY May 2003
Augsburg College B.A., Mathematics, Minor, Economics	Minneapolis, MN May 2002
University of Minnesota Post-Secondary Enrollment Options	Minneapolis, MN 1997-1999

EXPERIENCE

Yale University Teaching Fellow Econ S254, Financial Econometrics, with Professor Donald J. Brown Math S238, Computational Finance, with Professor Donald J. Brown Stat 661a, Data Analysis, with Professor John A. Hartigan Stat 538a, Probability and Statistics for Scientists, with Professor Joseph Chang Stat 500b, Introductory Statistics, with Assistant Professor John W. Emerson Stat 660b, Multivariate Statistics for the Social Sciences, with Lecturer Jonathan Reuning-Scherer Stat 103a, Introduction to Statistics with Applications in the Social Sciences, with Lecturer Jonathan Reuning-Scherer	New Haven, CT 2005 - present
Statistical Consultant, Social Science Statistical Laboratory (StatLab)	2005 - 2007
Target Corporation Analyst, Department of Guest Research and Analytics	Minneapolis, MN Summer 2005
Augsburg College Teaching Assistant Math 146, Calculus II, with Professor Rebekah Dupont Math 145, Calculus I, with Professor Rebekah Dupont Tutor GRE Quantitative, McNair Scholars Program Introduction to Statistics, McNair Scholars Program	Minneapolis, MN 2001-2002

PUBLICATIONS

bcp: A Package for Performing a Bayesian Analysis of Change Point Problems, with John W. Emerson, R package version 2.1, 2008. URL: cran.r-project.org/web/packages/bcp/index.html
A Fast Bayesian Change Point Analysis for the Segmentation of Microarray Data, with John W. Emerson, Bioinformatics, 2008. URL: bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/btn404
bcp: An R Package for Performing a Bayesian Analysis of Change Point Problems, with John W. Emerson, Journal of Statistical Software, 23(3):1-13, 2007. URL: jstatsoft.org/v23/i03/paper

PRESENTATIONS

"Continued Fractions of the form [a,a,a,...] and the Hidden Story of 10/89." Colloquium speaker, Math department, Augsburg College, 2002
"Hypersegregation in North Minneapolis, MN: A Deterministic Mathematical Model of Racial Demographics." Poster presentation, Ronald E. McNair Research Conference, Augsburg College, 2001
"Hypersegregation in North Minneapolis, MN: A Deterministic Mathematical Model of Racial Demographics." Presented at the National Ronald E. McNair Research Conference, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2001

GRANTS

Bush Foundation Faculty-Student Research Collaboration Grant: "Exploring Continued Fractions with Mathematica," 2002
McNair Scholars Program Summer Research Grant, 2001

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Statistical Software, Proficient in SAS and S-plus, Some experience with SPSS, STATA, Mathematica, and Minitab
Programming Languages, S/R, C/C++

AWARDS AND HONORS

Full Fellowship, Department of Statistics, Yale University, 2003-2008
Full Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, 2002-2003
Bryn Mawr EDGE Program Participant, 2002
NSF Computer Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Scholarship, 2001
University of California Berkeley EDGE Program Participant, 2001
Bev Durkee Mathematics Scholarship, 2001
President, Unbounded (Augsburg College Math Club), 2001
Medtronic Foundation Scholarship, 2001
Honeywell Scholarship, 2001
McNair Scholar, McNair Scholars Program, Augsburg College, 2000-2002
Augsburg College Dean's List, Fall 1999 and each semester thereafter