My professional focus is on data mining and statistical analysis. Other interests include energy and natural resource economics, particularly the relationship between biotechnology and sustainability. I am also an instructor of principles of economics and statistics.
Staff Paper
An Introduction to Game Theory: Applications in Environmental Economics and Public Choice with Mathematical Appendix (2012)
Game Theory is a mathematical technique developed to study choice under conditions of strategic interaction...
Notes on Support Vector Machines (2012)
The most basic idea of support vector machines is to find a line (or hyperplane)...
Using SAS® Enterprise BI and SAS® Enterprise MinerTM to Reduce Student Attrition (with Chris James, Tuesdi Helbig, and Gina Huff), SAS Global Forum 2012 Proceedings (2012)
The true supremacy of the SAS® Enterprise Business Intelligence Server is the ability to utilize...
Analysis of GMO vs Non-GMO Corn Hybrid Persistence Using Simulated Time Dependent Covariates in SAS (2012)
Fitting survival models utilizing time dependent covariates with the PHREG procedure in SAS involves the...
Empirical Methods for Predicting Student Retention- A Summary from the Literature (2011)
The vast majority of the literature related to the empirical estimation of retention models includes...
Blog Posts
Monopoly, Regulation, and Innovation, AgWeb (2010)
Recently the Justice department has started investigations into alleged anti-trust violations by Monsanto. This has...
Office Sustainability Committee (2010)
Popular media and celebrity authors like Michael Pollan as well as movies like Food, Inc...
Using R (2010)
R is a statistical programming language with a command line interface that is becoming more...
Video
Modern Sustainable Agriculture (2010)
This video presentation takes on myths about modern agriculture and addresses topics from films like...
Office Sustainability Committee (2010)
Popular media and celebrity authors like Michael Pollan as well as movies like Food, Inc...
Seminars and Applied Research
An Economic Approach to Climate Change, Economics Faculty Publications (2008)
Economics is the study of choices, and how they are made compatible. The issue of...
Teaching Hausman and Willig Using Mathematica, Library Presentations, Lectures, Research Guides (2007)
Analyzing consumer welfare from observable data, or empirical demand functions has been a very controversial...
The Economics of Water Utilization: Tools and Applications, Agriculture Department Seminar Series (2007)
Given worldwide problems of access to safe potable water, this presentation examines how tools of...
Student Perceptions of Genetically Modified Foods: An Empirical Investigation (2005)
Using survey data, a logistic regression model was developed to assess the influence of political...
Power, Privilege, and Special Interests: Rent Seeking and Subsidies in Agriculture, Agriculture Department Seminar Series (2003)
This presentation covers what Public Choice economists refer to as ‘rent seeking,’ generally seeking favor...
Presentations
Social Network Analysis: An introduction with applications from literature, WKU Bioinformatics and Information Science Center (2012)
An introduction to Social Network Analysis tools with applications in viral marketing, social media analytics,...
The Economics of Water Utilization: Principles and Applications (2011)
Discussion of issues related to water use in agriculture, with applications of basic principles of...
Empirical Methods-A Review: With an Introduction to Data Mining and Machine Learning (2011)
This presentation was part of a staff workshop focused on empirical methods and applied research....
Using Twitter to Demonstrate Basic Concepts from Network Analysis (2010)
Social network analysis focuses on finding patterns in interactions between people or entities. These patterns...
Career Related Applications of Economics In Enrollment Management (2009)
Discussion of tools from economics and econometrics applied to modeling student behavior in the area...