Diane Fisher: Mathematics Department, The University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Diane Fisher
Assistant Professor

Contact:

Office: 403 Maxim Doucet
Phone: 337-482-5271
E-mail: dfisher@louisiana.edu
Home page: not available

Degrees:

Ph.D. 1993 University of Louisiana at Lafayette
M.S. 1988 University of Louisiana at Lafayette
B.S. 1970 Florida State University

Statement:

My main research interest is in the area of statistics education. I enjoy teaching statistics and mathematics courses.

Selected research publications:

Lexical Ambiguity in Statistics: Making a Case against Spread (with J. Kaplan and N. Rogness), Teaching Statistics, Wiley Online Library, April 28, 2011.
Lexical Ambiguity in Statistics: How do students use and define the words: association, average, confidence, random and spread? (with J. Kaplan and N. Rogness), Journal of Statistics Education, 18 (2010).
Lexical Ambiguity in Statistics: What do students know about the words: association, average, confidence, random and spread? (with J. Kaplan and N. Rogness), Journal of Statistics Education, 17 (2009).
Using Research Papers as a Tool in Teaching Introductory Statistics, Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics, 9 (2006), 287-295.
A Collaboration: Statistics Class and Human Physiology Lab (with R. Robichaux and M. Vidrine). 2005 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Statistical Education Section, [CD-ROM], Alexandria, VA:American Statistical Association, 2220-2222.