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Searching for Patterns among Squares Modulo p
Roger Bilisoly
Although squaring integers is deterministic, squares modulo a prime, , appear to be random. First, because they are all generated by the multiplicative linear congruential equat…
Creating, Automating, and Assessing Online Homework in Introductory Statistics and Mathematics Classes
Karen Santoro, Roger Bilisoly
Although textbook publishers offer course management systems, they do so to promote brand loyalty, and while an open source tool such as WeBWorK is promising, it requires administr…
Quantifying Prosodic Variability in Middle English Alliterative Poetry
Roger Bilisoly
Interest in the mathematical structure of poetry dates back to at least the 19th century: after retiring from his mathematics position, J. J. Sylvester wrote a book on prosody call…
Language-based Examples in the Statistics Classroom
Roger Bilisoly
Statistics pedagogy values using a variety of examples. Thanks to text resources on the Web, and since statistical packages have the ability to analyze string data, it is now easy…
Using Board Games and Mathematica to Teach the Fundamentals of Finite Stationary Markov Chains
Roger Bilisoly
Markov chains are an important example for a course on stochastic processes because simple board games can be used to illustrate the fundamental concepts. For example, a looping bo…
Generalizing the Mean and Variance to Categorical Data Using Metrics
Roger Bilisoly
Researchers have developed ways to generalize the mean and variance to situations in which a data metric is available. We apply the tools developed in Pennec (2006) to categorical…