María Eugenia Calzada

a.k.a. Maru, Mía, or just María Calzada

Associate Professor

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

Maria with oldest daughter Teresa                               Melissa eating chocolate cake

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Contents

Current Courses

Biographical Information

Research Projects

Teaching

Contact Information

ICTCM

 

Biographical Information

I was born in beautiful Panama City, Republic of Panama, my parents are from Spain, and now I live in New Orleans with my husband and two daughters. I have been part of the Loyola University New Orleans faculty since 1991. Before then I was at Tulane University were I got my M. S. and Ph. D. I thoroughly enjoy working at Loyola. Currently, I am an Associate Professor in the Mathematics and Computer Science Department in the College of Arts and Sciences.

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Publications and Research

Here is a selected list of my publications.

“Average Run Length Computations for the Three-Way Chart,” with Stephen M. Scariano. Communications in Statistics Simulation and Computation Vol. 33, No.2, 2004, pp. 505-524.

“Computing Average Run Lengths for the MaxEWAM Chart,” with Stephen M. Scariano. Communications in Statistics Simulation and Computation Vol. 33, No.2, 2004, pp. 489-503.

“Contrasting Total Least Squares with Ordinary Least Squares Part II: Examples and Comparisons,” with Stephen M. Scariano.  Mathematics and Computer Education, Vol. 37, No. 2, 2003, pp. 159-174.

 

“A Note on the Lower-Sided Synthetic Chart for Exponentials,” with Stephen M. Scariano. Quality Engineering Vol. 15, No. 4, 2003, pp. 677-680.

“The Robustness of the MaxEWMA Chart to Non-Normality,” with Stephen M. Scariano. Communications in Statistics Simulation and Computation Vol. 32, No.2, 2003, pp. 573-590.

“Reconciling the Integral Equation and Markov Chain Approach for Computing EWMA Average Run Lengths,” with Stephen M. Scariano. Communications in Statistics Simulation and Computation Vol. 32, No.2, 2003, pp.591-604.

“The Robustness of the Synthetic Control Chart to Non-Normality," with Steve Scariano.  Communications in Statistics Simulation and Computation 30 (2001) 311-326.

 

"Simpson's Paradox and Matrix Determinants," with Steve Scariano, Mathematics and Computer Education 34 (2000) 237-244.

“What is Normal, Anyway?," with Steve Scariano, Mathematics Teacher  92(8) (1999) 682-689.

"Application of a Flame Dictionary Method in Turbulent Premixed Flame Modeling", with Yu Song, Applied Mathematics Letters, Vol. 10, No. 2, 1997.

"Beyond Basic Statistics with the Graphing Calculator Part II: Comparing Distributions", with Stephen Scariano, Mathematics and Computer Education, Vol. 30, No. 2, 1996.

"Beyond Basic Statistics with the Graphing Calculator Part I: Assessing Goodness-of-Fit", with Stephen Scariano, Mathematics and Computer Education, Vol. 30, No. 1, 1996.

"A Dictionary Random Choice Method with Applications in Turbulent Combustion", with Yu Song, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics 58 (1995) 27-42.

Here is a useful Visual Basic Application to check distributional assumptions on data (Normality and Exponentiality) using the Lilliefors Test and the Anderson-Darling Test.  EDF TESTS. The expository manuscript explaining the tests and the application, included here.  The Power-Point presentation for the 15th Annual ICTCM is here.  The paper to be published in the electronic proceedings of this conference is here.

Here is a Visual Basic Application that computes Average Run Lengths (ARLs) and Standard Deviations of Average Run Lengths for EWMA charts given different underlying distributions (Standard Normal, Student’s t, gamma, exponential, uniform, chi-square, and beta distributions).  This program also allows users to conduct a study of false alarm detection.

Here is a Visual Basic Application that computes Ordinary Least Squares and Total Least Squares lines. It also computes and plots residuals and performs “inverse regression.”  This readme file explains how this program can be executed.  This folder contains data sets used in the paper  "Contrasting Total Least Squares with Ordinary Least Squares Part II: Examples and Comparisons”, to appear in Mathematics and Computer Education.

My latest vita is here.

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Teaching

Teaching is my favorite part of my job.  It gives me great personal satisfaction. I thoroughly enjoy every aspect of teaching (except grading papers). I teach a variety of courses from freshman level algebra to advanced calculus.

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International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

Loyola University New Orleans was the host institution for the 11th Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics (ICTCM).  This is a great conference for those interested in new ways to apply technology in the classroom.  For more information on future conferences visit ICTCM’s web site by clicking here.

 

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Contact Information

Street address

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science,

Loyola University New Orleans,

6363 St. Charles Ave.

N. O., La. 70118

Electronic mail address calzada@loyno.edu

Office phone 504.865.2491

FAX number 504.865.2051

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Last revised: 6/2/04