Dr. Gene Sprechini
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Lycoming College
Williamsport, PA 17701
Phone: (570)
321-4288
Fax: (570) 321-4371
Email: sprgene at lycoming
dot edu
My office is # D-311 in the Academic Center,
and my regularly scheduled office hours for the Fall 2008 semester are as
follows:
Mondays
9:30-10:30am
Tuesdays
10:00-10:45am
Wednesdays
9:30-10:30am
Fridays
9:30-10:30am
The
Lycoming College Department of Mathematical Sciences Home Page can be found here.
The
Lycoming College Home Page can be found here.
(Disclaimer: The picture
below was taken in the late 1980s. I may
have changed since then!)

Education
- B.S.
(Mathematics), Wilkes
College
- MA.
(Mathematics), SUNY at Binghamton
- Ph.D.
(Statistics), SUNY at Binghamton
Academic Interests
- General
Linear Models
- Robustness
of Statistical Tests
Activities
Links to Some Fun Stuff
- What can we say about the winner
in the recent election for President
of the United States?
The answer which foretells things to come is here.
- What
can we say about the candidates in the recent election for President of the United States? It can all be summarized nicely and
accurately right here.
- Check on the END OF
THE WORLD COUNTDOWN by going here and
scrolling down to the bottom of the page to click on the Doomsday Clock.
- To take
a test which is EXTREMELY EASY but will irritate you because you won’t
be able to do it anyway, go here.
- See how
many times you can make two in row by going here.
- Get the
answer(s) to the question “Do I think commas are important?” by going here.
- What is REALLY meant
by the sentences displayed here?
- You can listen to
some Oldies Music from the 50s, 60s, and 70s by going here (and clicking on the
“listen” button), and you can listen to some very unusual oldies by
going here.
- To read about the
worst television show ever made, go here.
- To read about and
see the best television show ever made (or certainly one of the best
in my opinion at least), go here
.
- See a picture of
yourself by following the instructions here.
- Are you observant
enough to figure out this card trick?
(Disclaimer: For whatever reason, this webpage seems to be functional
only about half the time)
- Do you have the guts
to take any of the quizzes that are here?
(And be sure to click on the [Fun Stuff] link afterward!)
- If you like to play
games, then check out what is here.
- To get news the
“mainstream media” won’t give you, go here or here or here or here or here.
- Fascinating puzzles (to
which I once had all the answers, but now I can’t find them – but I’m
sure they will turn up eventually!)
- Great pictures.
- To find out when you
can watch The Three Stooges, go here or here.
Links to Some Statistical Stuff
Courses
MATH 106 (Combinatorics) Syllabus (which
includes links to the course schedule and the tutoring hours)
MATH 123 (Introduction to Statistics) Syllabus (which
includes links to the course schedule, the tutoring hours, the textbook, the
exercises sets (with answers to odd numbered exercises), the SPSS lab
exercises, and the description of the required project)
MATH 128 (Calculus with Analytic Geometry I) Syllabus
MATH 130 (Matrix Algebra) Syllabus (which
includes a link to the course schedule and the tutoring hours)
MATH 214 (Multivariable Statistics) Syllabus (which
includes links to the course schedule, the tutoring hours, and the description
of the required project)
MATH 233 (Complex Variables) Syllabus (which
includes a link to the course schedule)
MATH 238 (Multivariable Calculus) Syllabus (which
includes a link to the course schedule and tutoring hours)
MATH 332-333 (Mathematical Statistics I & II) Syllabus (which includes
a link to the course schedule)
MATH 400 (Theory of Interest with Applications) Syllabus (which
includes a link to the course schedule)
MATH 400 (Actuarial Mathematics) Syllabus (which
includes a link to the course schedule)
MATH 434 (Abstract Algebra) Syllabus (which includes
a link to the course schedule) - To see the Math 434 students in action, take a
look at this.
NURS 432-433 (Nursing Research I & II) and NURS 435
(Research in Nursing)