Blake Whitten

Lecturer Emeritus

Research interests 

  • Applied time series forecasting
  • Business applications of statistics
  • Missing-data methodology
  • Statistical computing
  • Statistical pedagogy and education

Selected professional development

  • Pearson Education/IBM Business Analytics Group Meeting, Pearson Education, IBM, New York, New York, 2010
  • WileyPLUS User's Conference, Wiley, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia, 2009
  • Summit with Faculty Members who Teach Large Classes, Office of the Provost, Center for Teaching, Iowa City, Iowa, 2009
  • WileyPLUS Power Users Conference, John Wiley and Sons, Publishers, Atlanta, Georgia, 2008
  • Second Summit with Faculty Members who Teach Large Classes, Tom Rocklin, UI Vice Provost, 2008
  • Insights into Business Statistics and Analytics Success Summit, McGraw-Hill Education, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, 2018
  • Business Statistics Focus Group, McGraw-Hill, Inc., Chicago, Illinois, 2012
  • Tippie College Summit for Prerequisite and Core Undergraduate Courses, Tippie College Undergraduate Program Office, Iowa City, Iowa, 2011
  • StatsPortal Focus Group, W.H. Freeman Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 2010
  • Boston Business Statistics Forum, Pearson Education, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, 2010

Selected awards and honors

  • Tippie College of Business Faculty Member of the Year 2010, Tippie College of Business, 2010
  • Winner, Yongyuan and Anna Li Award for Best Student Research Presentation, Florida State University Department of Statistics Colloquium Series, 2001
  • Winner, Yongyuan and Anna Li Award for Best Student Research Presentation in Florida State University Department of Statistics Colloquium Series, 1999
  • Recipient, Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Florida State University, 1998
  • Selection, College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Fellow, University of Wisconsin, 1991

Selected courses taught

  • Statistics for Business, STAT:1030, Spring 2019
  • Statistics for Business, STAT:1030, Spring 2018
  • Probability and Statistics, STAT:3120, Fall 2018

Selected presentations

  • Whitten, B. W. (2010, January) Using Lanschool Software to Boost Teaching in UI Computer Labs. Demonstration presented at 4Cast 2010 Technology In Teaching Conference, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
  • Whitten, B. W. (2007, August) MBA-PM Quantitative and Excel Prep Workshop. Demonstration UI Tippie School of Management, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Blake Whitten
blake-whitten@uiowa.edu
PhD, Statistics, Florida State University
MS, Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
MS, Mathematics, Northern Arizona University
BS, Mathematics and Business Economics, Northern Arizona University