Richard T. O'Connell
Richard T. O'Connell is an Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He has more than twenty years of experience teaching basic statistics, statistical quality control and process improvement, regression analysis, time series forecasting, and design of experiments to both undergraduate and graduate business students. He also has extensive consulting experience and has taught workshops dealing with statistical process control and process improvement for a variety of companies in the midwest. Together with Bruce Bowerman, he has authored six textbooks. These include Forecasting and Time Series: An Applied Approach and Linear Statistical Models: An Applied Approach. The first edition of Forecasting and Time Series earned an Outstanding Academic Book Award from Choice magazine. Professor O'Connell has published a number of articles in the area of innovative statistical education. In particular, he is one of the first college instructors in the United States to integrate statistical process control and process improvements methodology into his basic business statistics course. He (with Professor Bowerman) has written several articles advocating this approach. He has also given presentations on this subject at meetings such as the Joint Statistical Meetings of the American Statistical Association and the Workshop on Total Quality Management Developing Curricula and Research Agendas (sponsored by the Production and Operations Management Society).
Professor O'Connell received an M.S degree in Decision Sciences from Northwestern University in 1973, and he is currently a member of both the Decision Sciences Institute and the American Statistical Association. In his spare time, Professor O'Connell enjoys fishing, collecting 1950s and 1960s rock music, and following the Green Bay Packers and Purdue University sports via satellite.
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