Dr. Jessica Kraker, Ph.D. (she / her)

Jessica Kraker
  • Professor
  • Mathematics
  • Hibbard Humanities Hall 517, Eau Claire | Directions
  • Office hours: Online: Mon 7-8 p.m., Tues 2-2:50 p.m., Wed 3-4 p.m., Fri 8-9 a.m.
    Math 246 Problem Session: Thurs 1-1:50 p.m. in HHH 315
    Math 443 Problem Session: Mon 8-8:50 a.m. in HHH 407
  • Professional Website
Responsibilities
  • Updating, teaching, developing, and fine-tuning course material on a variety of statistical topics. 
  • Participating as a member (or chair) of departmental committees. / Advising students within the statistics emphasis. 
  • Mentoring student-faculty research projects within statistics. 
  • Supporting university endeavors via departmental support, curricular development (via committee service), and summer teaching. 
  • Contributing to the larger statistical community via peer journal review and conference and journal-authorship participation.
Research and Creative Activities
  • Penalized Regression
  • Cross-validation
  • Data Mining 
  • Sports Analytics
  • Time Series
Education
  • Ph.D., University of Minnesota - Twin Cities (Statistics)
  • M.S., University of Minnesota - Twin Cities (Statistics)
  • B.A., University of Minnesota - Morris (Mathematics)