Research Areas: Statistics Education, Statistical Change Point Analysis and its application to gene
expression data, and actuarial science
Dr. Plummer received his BSE and MS in Mathematics from the University of Central
Missouri in 1990 and 1995, respectively. He received his Ph.D. in Statistics/Economics
from the University of Missouri – Kansas City in 2012. Dr. Plummer joined the School
of Computer Science and Mathematics in 2001 and is presently an Assistant Instructor
of Statistics. Dr. Plummer is devoted to his students’ success and teaching excellence.
He has presented at national meetings on topics related to teaching Introductory Statistics
courses and design of Co-requisite Models for General Education Statistics Courses.
He teaches introductory, upper level, as well as graduate level statistics courses
and serves as an advisor for both undergraduate and graduate majors in Actuarial Science
and Statistics as well as Bioinformatics. Dr. Plummer is a co-sponsor of UCM Statistics
Club and The Actuarial Organization, student organizations within the school. He is
actively engaged with the Kansas/Western Missouri Chapter of the American Statistical
Association and currently serves as the Chapters Representative for its chapter of
Mu Sigma Rho, statistics honor society.