Neil W. Henry (Ph.D., Columbia University, 1970)

Oliver Hall, room 2037C
Tel.: (804) 828-1301, ext. 124
E-mail: nhenry@saturn.vcu.edu
Web URL: saturn.vcu.edu/~nhenry

Specialty Areas: Mathematical sociology, statistics

Joint Appointment: Department of Mathematical Sciences

Biographical Sketch

Neil Henry grew up in North Andover Massachusetts, and graduated from Andover in 1954 and Wesleyan University in 1958. After getting an MA in mathematics at Dartmouth he studied mathematical statistics and mathematical modelling in the social sciences at Columbia University (Ph.D. 1970). Before coming to VCU he was an assistant professor of sociology at Cornell University.

Among the courses he teaches regularly are the jointly listed introductory courses for graduate students in social science disciplines, SOC/STA 508 and SOC/STA 608. The first course has no prerequisite and introduces the basic language of statistical data analysis and probabilistic concepts such as confidence and significance. In the second, techniques such as chisquare tests, one way ANOVA, and regression analysis are discussed, with particular emphasis on the analysis of surveys and other observational studies. The Windows version of SPSS is used to facilitate data analysis.