He is appearing as part of the Distinguished Speakers Series. Donaldson is a familiar presence on ABC News. Since joining ABC News as its Capitol Hill correspondent in 1967, Donaldson has covered everything from the Vietnam War, the Iranian hostage crisis and Watergate. Jenkins' free presentation is part of this fall's Huddle with the Faculty, a Penn State Alumni Association outreach program that features presentations by top Penn State faculty before every home football game. Categorical data analysis topic of talk Alan Agresti, professor of statistics at the University of Florida, will deliver the third annual Clifford C. Clogg Memorial Lectureship in Sociology and Statistics at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 2, in 201 Thomas Building on the University Park campus.
Categorical data describes information obtained by counting things in various categories.
This important area of statistics has significant impact because its techniques apply to a wide variety of fields, from medicine to astrophysics. Agresti has authored four books and has published more than 75 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals. He has held visiting professorships at various institutions, has served on editorial boards for numerous journals and is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association. At the University of Florida he has been designated a 1997-2000 University of Florida research foundation professor. The lectureship honors the late Clifford C. Clogg, who was distinguished professor of sociology and professor of statistics at Penn State from 1979 to 1995.