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Geoff Cumming, Ph. D.

Professor Geoff Cumming was a Rhodes Scholar in Oxford, England, early in his career, and retired in 2008, so he can follow his passion -- building tools to help in understanding introductory statistics and statistical inference, and writing his book: 'Understanding The New Statistics: Effect sizes, confidence intervals, and meta-analysis'. This book is in Dr Harlow's Multivariate Applications Series, published by Routledge, and will be released in August 2011. Geoff's prolific research on statistical cognition helps researchers find better ways to do science than the traditional approach of relying on statistical significance testing and p values. He also believes that understanding comes through visual images -- especially interactive graphical simulations of (cool) statistical things. Geoff is married to Lindsay, has three children who are now grown up and scattered around the world; and two grandsons. He lives in a beautiful country home and garden in Melbourne, rides a mountain bike every day, and enjoys opera, woodworking and word games. See more about Professor Cumming and his Exploratory Software for Confidence Intervals (ESCI) that runs with Microsoft Excel; and encourages better understanding of sampling, confidence intervals, meta-analysis and other methods, at: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/psy/staff/cumming.html