Robert L. Andrews

Excel File for the MyStatLab Exercise for Process Stability (Assignment 4) (Excel 1997-2003 file)

Traffic delay data (Sharpe 2nd edition , chapter 19, problem 18) (Excel 1997-2003 edited file with data & analysis)

Lecture Materials Webpage for the 1999 edition of the Canavos & Miller text

AutoOnline Excel file with Auto Online data
AutoOnline SPSS file with Auto Online data

U.S. Census Bureau Data (Excel 2007) (Excel 2007-2010 file for 2/7/08 download from http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/download_data.html)
U.S. Census Bureau Data (Excel 2003) (Excel 1997-2003 file for 2/7/08 download from http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/download_data.html)
U.S. Census Bureau Data (summary for states) (Excel 1997-2003 file extracted from the above with only DC and state summaries)

An additional Excel file for Add-ins and general Excel 2007 information for statistics (Excel file)

Current Activities
Research/Teaching Areas
Personal Interests

Current Activities

Advisor for Master's students in Business with a concentration in Decision Sciences and Business Analytics

Bob is a long-standing member of the Decision Sciences Institute. He has been very active with organizing and leading sessions at DSI to improve statistics instruction within schools of business. He helped facilitate the cooperation between DSI and the Making Statistics More Effective in Schools of Business, MSMESB, group to start a DSI Special Interest Group. He has also served DSI in numerous capacities including three 2-year terms as a Vice President on the DSI Board and as chair of the Member Services Committee from April 2008 through March 2011.
The picture to the left is of Bob, the Institute's Executive Director Carol Latta and Barbara Price.

Bob with now Senator Warner, picture taken when he was Governor and Bob was President of the Faculty Senate of Virginia (2004-06 academic years). The Faculty Senate of Virginia represents faculty thoughout the Commonwealth of Virginia in both public and private instituions of higher education.
Bob has served as President and Immediate Past-President (2006-08 academic years) of the Faculty Senate of Virginia.
Faculty Senate of Virginia

Member of the VCU Faculty Senate, Bob was president of the VCU Faculty Senate for the 2002-04 academic years.

For the DSI Special Interest Group, Making Statistics More Effective in Schools of Business, MSMESB, Bob has organized sessions at the annual meetings of the Southeast Decision Sciences Institute, http://www.sedsi.org/ .

Coordinator for the School of Business quantitative courses taught at the Maggie L. WalkerGovernor's School for Government and International Studies http://www.gsgis.k12.va.us/.

Research/Teaching Areas

Applied Statistics
Decision Analysis
Quantitative Methods

Advanced Excel Class
Intermediate Excel Class

Personal Interests

A cookout with internationals at our house on Labor Day weekend

My family
Pictures from 2010
Pictures from 2009
Pictures from 2007
Pictures from 2006
Pictures from 2005
Pictures from 2004

Active member of the Decision Sciences Institute and the Making Statistics More Effective in Schools of Business Special Interest Group.
http://www.decisionsciences.org/
Also a member of the Southeast Decision Sciences Institute (elected member of the SEDSI Council)
http://www.sedsi.org/

Christ Presbyterian Church
http://www.christprez.org/

Bob finished serving on the Board of Directors for Camp Hanover for 5 years in December, 2011 and is currently on their Program Committee.
http://www.camphanover.org/

Member of the Southeast Chapter of INFORMS
http://www.seinforms.org/

Former Player in the NBA (Noon Basketball Association of VCU faculty and staff). I was forced into retirement when the VCU athletic department found that is was no longer convenient to allow faculty to use the gym two days a week at lunch time.
Former faithful V.C.U. Basketball fan, from 1978 until the VCU athletic department locked the faculty out of the Franklin Street Gym in 2006 without even the courtesy of any explanation.

This page does not reflect an official position of Virginia Commonwealth University.

WWW Links of Interest

Analytics Magazine Online a bimonthly publication of The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

Merlot Statistics Portal

Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education CAUSEweb.org

Khan Academy (Statistics)

Page last updated January 17, 2012 by Robert Andrews.