LAURENCE D. ROBINSON
Associate Professor of Statistics
Department of Mathematics
Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH 45810

Ph.D. 1991, University of California, Berkeley

Office: 260 Meyer Hall
Phone: 419-772-2358
Email: l-robinson.1@onu.edu

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1. Robinson, L. D. and Lyons, C. G.  (2006),  Lowest Terms Revisited  (electronic, math. GM/0609373, http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/math.GM/0609373).
2. Robinson, L. D.  (2006),  An Interesting Classroom Exercise (to appear), 2006 Proceedings of the Joint Statistical Meetings (Section on Statistics in Sports).
3. Caragiu, M. and  Robinson, L. D.  (2006),  An intermediate value theorem for sequences with terms in a finite set,  JP Journal of Algebra, Number Theory, and Applications 6(1), 57-70.
4. Robinson, L. D. and Caragiu, M.  (2005),  On successive proportions of binary sequences, 2005 Proceedings of the Joint Statistical Meetings  (Section on Statistics in Sports).
5. Caragiu, M. and Robinson, L. D.  (2005),  An intermediate value theorem for sequences with terms in a finite set  (electronic, math.GM/0509537, http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/math.GM/0509537).
6. Robinson, L. D.,  Dorroh, J. R.,  Lien, D.,  and Tiku, M. L.  (1998),  The effects of covariate adjustment in generalized linear models, Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods 27, 1653-75.
7. Robinson, L. D. and Jewell, N. P.  (1991),  Some surprising results about covariate adjustment in logistic regression models, International Statistical Review 58,  227-40.
8. Robinson, L. D. and Jewell, N. P.  (1991),  Covariate adjustment, Letter to the editor, Biometrics 47,  342-3.
9. Robinson, L. D. (1991),  The effects of covariate adjustment upon precision for some common generalized linear models, Ph.D. Dissertation (Biostatistics),  University of California – Berkeley.
   

• Robinson, L. D. “An Examination of the Factors Which Influence the Distribution of  Gender in Families:  An Interesting Topic and Group Project”.  Presentation made at the Thirty-Fourth Annual Conference of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, September 2006.
• Robinson, L. D. “An Interesting Classroom Exercise”. Presentation made at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Seattle, Washington, August 2006.
• Robinson, L. D. “Winning Percentages Can Be Misleading”. Presentation made at the MAA Ohio Section Meetings at University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, April 2006.
• Robinson, L. D.  “A Creative Use of the Binomial Distribution”.  Presentation made at the MAA Ohio Section Meetings at Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio,  October 2005.
• Robinson, L. D.  “An Analysis of the Effects of Height and Body Build upon Weight:  An Interesting Classroom Presentation”. Presentation made at the Thirty-Third Annual Conference of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, October 2005.
• Robinson, L. D. and Caragiu, M. “On Successive Proportions of Binary Sequences”. Presentation made (by L. D. Robinson) at the Joint Statistical  Meetings, Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 2005.
• Caragiu, M. and  Robinson, L. D.  “An Arithmetic Intermediate Value Theorem”. Presentation made (by L. D. Robinson) at the MAA Ohio Section Meetings at Miami University, Oxford, OH, April 2005.
• Robinson, L. D. and  Louiso, C. R.  “Outcome Probabilities for Randomized Tic-Tac-Toe (Part 1)”.  Presentation made (by L. D. Robinson) at the Thirty-Second Annual Conference of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics,  Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, October 2004.
• Robinson, L. D.  “A Not-So-Simple Solution to a Simple Math Puzzle”.  Presentation made at the Thirty-First Annual Conference of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, October 2003.
• Robinson, L. D. and  Lyons, C. G.  “Lowest Terms Revisited”.  Paper presented (by C. G. Lyons) at the Mathematical Association of America Section Meetings, Washington, D.C., USA, November 2000.
• Robinson, L. D. and  Dorroh, J. R.  “The Effects of Covariate Adjustment in Generalized Linear Models”. Paper presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, August 1994.
  

• “Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers”,  2004
• Chin Long Chiang Biostatistics Student of the Year Award,  1990 (at the University of California – Berkeley)
• Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award,  1987 (at the University of California – Berkeley)
• Bachelor of Science Degree “with Distinction”,  1978 (at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor)