• Lecturer of Statistics and
  Teaching Fellow
• Ph.D., Penn State, 2002
• M.A., Penn State, 1991

Summary of research interests

Dr. Simon is primarily interested in teaching statistical concepts to undergraduate math majors and to non-statisticians in the biostatistical and health sciences fields. As her courses illustrate, she is a proponent of active hands-on and web-based statistical education. Dr. Simon was nominated for the 2004 Eberly College of Science's C. I. Noll Award for Teaching Excellence. Dr. Simon was also nominated by two students and subsequently named to Who's Who Among America's Teachers in 2004 and 2005.

Dr. Simon co-authored nine units of the web-based introductory statistics text, Visualizing Statistics (Cybergnostics, Inc.). She is a reviewer of statistical education resources submitted to causeweb.org and merlot.org. Other professional interests include biostatistical consulting, repeated measures modeling, clinical trials development, research data management, and web-page programming.

Before moving to the University Park campus in 1996, Dr. Simon worked at the Center for Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the Penn State College of Medicine at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. While there, she consulted with more than forty medical researchers, and provided overall leadership to the Data Management Unit on numerous projects, including the NIH-Funded National Interstitial Cystitis Database Study.

Prior to working at Penn State, Dr. Simon was a statistician at Auke Bay Research Laboratory in Auke Bay, Alaska, and a visiting summer statistician at Rohm and Haas Research Laboratories in Spring House, Pennsylvania.

Representative publications

L. J. Simon and V. M. Chinchilli. 2008. A pattern mixture model for a paired 2×2 crossover design. IMS Collections: Beyond Parametrics in Interdisciplinary Research: Festschrift in Honor of Pranab K. Sen 1: 257-271.

L. J. Simon and V. M. Chinchilli. 2007. A matched crossover design for clinical trials. Contemporary Clinical Trials 28: 638-646.

Co-authored 9 units of web-based statistics course for Cybergnostics, Inc., Menlo Park, Calif.

L. J. Simon, J. R. Landis, J. E. Tomaszewski, L. M. Nyberg and the ICDB Study Group. 1997. The Interstitial Cystitis Data Base (ICDB) Study. Interstitial Cystitis, G. R. Sant (ed.). Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven.

L. J. Simon, J. R. Landis, D. R. Erickson, L. M. Nyberg, and the ICDB Study Group. 1997. The Interstitial Cystitis Data Base (ICDB) Study: Concepts and preliminary baseline descriptive statistics. Urology 49 (Supplement 5A): 64-75.

J. S. Samkoff, S. Hockenberry, L. J. Simon, and R. L. Jones. 1995. Mortality of young physicians. Academic Medicine 70(3): 242-244.

D. R. Erickson, L. J. Simon, D. A. Belchis. 1994. Relationships between cystoscopic, pathologic, and subjective features in patients with symptoms of interstitial cystitis. Urology 44(5): 655-659.

D. C. Slawson, J. H. Bennett, L. J. Simon, and J. M. Herman. 1994. Should all women with cervical atypia be referred for colposcopy? A HARNET Study. Journal of Family Practice 38: 387-392.

J. Pella, R. Rumbaugh, L. J. Simon, M. Dahlberg, S. Pennoyer, and M. Rose. 1992. Incidental and illegal catches of salmonids in North Pacific squid driftnet fisheries. Proceedings of the International North Pacific Fisheries Commission 1991 Symposium, Tokyo, Japan.

Last updated: 23 March 2006