Paul F. Velleman

Paul F. Velleman (born April 16, 1949) is a Professor of statistics at Cornell University.

Velleman got his Bachelor's Degree at Dartmouth College, and a PhD. at Princeton University. He is the author and designer of the multimedia statistics CD-ROM, ActivStats, for which he was awarded the EDUCOM Medal for innovative uses of computer in teaching statistics, and the ICTCM Award for Innovation in Using Technology in College Mathematics. He developed the statistics program, Data Desk and the Internet site Data and Story Library (DASL), which provides datasets for teaching statistics.

In 1987 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.

He is co-author (with Richard Deveaux and David Bock) of the books, Intro Stats, Stats: Modeling the World, and Stats: Data and Models, and the co-author (with David Hoaglin) of ABCs of Exploratory Data Analysis. Paul has taught Statistics at Cornell University since 1975. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.