Marina Ptukhina
Associate Professor of Statistics
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Olin Hall 219
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509-527-5984
Marina Ptukhina (Pa-too-he-nuh) joined Whitman College in 2016. She has been closely involved in the creation of a Math-Stats combined major and a Data Science minor at Whitman. She is interested in statistical modeling, design and analysis of research studies and their applications. Her research includes applications of statistics to economics, biostatistics and statistical education.
Ptukhina earned a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, a Master of Science degree in Mathematics from Texas Tech University and a Specialist degree in Management from The National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute.” She was born and raised in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Ptukhina, M and Stroup, W (2015). “Best Linear Unbiased Prediction: an Illustration Based on, but Not Limited to, Shelf Life Estimation”, Annual Conference on Applied Statistics in Agriculture.
Tetteh, A. Spaulding, and M.Ptukhina (2021)“Understanding the job-hopping syndrome among millennial employees in the U.S. food and agribusiness sector: a national survey”, International Food and Agribusiness Management Review Journal.
Manic and M. Ptukhina (2022) “The Impact of State-Funded Merit Aid on the Retention of College Graduates”, Review of Regional Studies 52 (2): 210–48.
Stroup, W.W., Ptukhina, M., and Garai, J. (2024). Generalized Linear Mixed Models: Modern Concepts, Methods and Applications (2nd ed.). Chapman and Hall/CRC.
MATH 128: “Introduction to Statistics”
MATH/CS 215: “Introduction to Data Science”
MATH 247: “Statistics with Applications”
MATH 248: “Statistical Modeling”
MATH 347: “Design and Analysis of Research Studies”
MATH 349: “Probability Theory”
MATH 438: “Statistical Theory”
GENS 176: “Making Powerful Arguments: Data, Decisions, and Equity”