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Ayesha Delpish

Associate Professor of Statistics

Department: Mathematics and Statistics

Office and address: Lindner Hall - Arts & Sciences, office 200-D 2320 Campus Box Elon, NC 27244

Phone number: (336) 278-6204

Brief Biography

Dr. Ayesha Delpish joined the Elon University in the Fall of 2005.  Dr. Delpish specializes in educational measurement & testing, and multivariate statistics, including Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Reliability Theory, Item-Response Theory, and related quantitative methods. She is also very interested in understanding how students learn statistical concepts.

 

    Education

     

    August 2006    Florida State University                  Tallahassee, FL

    Ph.D. Statistics

    • Dissertation: A Comparison of Estimators in Hierarchical Linear Modeling: Restricted Maximum Likelihood versus Bootstrap via Minimum Norm Quadratic Unbiased Estimators

         Dissertation Advisor: Xufeng Niu

     

    August 2001    Florida State University                  Tallahassee, FL

    M.S.  Applied Statistics

     

    May 1999        Mount St. Mary’s College             Emmitsburg, MD

    B.S.  Mathematics & Spanish