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Eiki Satake

Professor of Statistics and Mathematics, School of Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies

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Dr. Eiki Satake is a teacher and researcher in the areas of mathematics and applied statistics. He is the author of more than 10 textbooks, including Research and Statistical Methods in Communication Sciences and Disorders (Delmar Cengage & Learning), Handbook of Statistical Methods: Single Subject Designs (Plural Publishing), and Introductory Statistics: A First Course (Kendall-Hunt Publishing).

One of Dr. Satake’s books, entitled Actuarial Mathematics of Finance, was selected for the Basic Library List of The Mathematical Association of America. His latest textbook, Statistical Methods and Reasoning for the Clinical Sciences: Evidence-based approach (Plural Publishing), has been adopted and reserved at the libraries by over 70 educational institutions nationally and internationally, while his Handbook of Statistical Methods in Single Subject Designs (Plural) has been adopted by 123 educational institutions. His scholarly works have been cited worldwide by over 500 researchers and practitioners in the field of statistics, mathematics, education, communication studies, and communication sciences and disorders, among others.

Dr. Satake has published and presented numerous research articles concerning Bayesian statistical methods, mathematics/statistics education, and cross-cultural validity studies of mathematics achievement and anxiety. His current research interests include applications of the Bayesian statistical methods to the various fields of communication, probability logic, and validity studies, and he has a growing interest in sabermetrics (aka: baseball statistics).

Courses
  • Statistics
  • Business Mathematics
  • Directed Study
Academic Work
  • "Bayesian Polling Technique: 1992 Presidential Polls," (Communication Research)
  • "An Application of Probability Logic," (The AMATYC Review)
  • "Mathematics achievement and anxiety among Japanese and American children," (Educational and Psychological Measurement)
  • "An alternative teaching method of conditional probabilities and Bayes' rule: An application of the truth table," (Teaching Statistics)
  • "Fundamentals of clinical decision making analysis for SLP and audiologists"(Plural Community)
  • "A validity study: Attitudes towards statistics and course achievement among Japanese college students," (Teachers College, Columbia University Journal of Mathematics Education)
  • "Teaching an application of Bayes' rule for legal decision making: Measuring the strength of evidence," (Journal of Statistics education)
  • "Beyond P values and Hypothesis Testing: Using the Minimum Bayes Factor to Teach Statistical Inference in Undergraduate Introductory Statistics Courses," (Journal of Education and Learning)
  • "Statistics and the Media," (International Journal of Communication)