Contact Information
605 E Springfield Ave
Champaign, IL 61820
Biography
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics.
Research Interests
sports analytics, history, evolutionary biology, economics
Research Description
I am mainly interested in methods development motivated by scientific or social scientific collaborations. I am interested in a wide variety of topics within Statistics.
UIUC Statistics graduate students are encouraged to reach out to me if you are looking for research opportunities. I currently have several projects in sports analytics, history, evolutionary biology, and economics.
Education
PhD Statistics, University of Minnesota, 2017
BS Mathematics, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2009
Courses Taught
STAT 430 - Baseball Analytics
STAT 528 - Advanced Regression Analysis II
STAT 385 - Statistics Programming Methods
Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Statistics
External Links
Recent Publications
Gotarkar, D., Digrado, A., Wang, Y., Doran, L., Sparrow-Muñoz, I., Chung, S., Lisa, N., Wasiq, F., Amaro, G., Blakely, B., Diers, B. W., Eck, D. J., & Burgess, S. J. (2025). Variation in relaxation of non-photochemical quenching between the founder genotypes of the soybean (Glycine max) nested association mapping population. Plant Journal, 121(2), Article e17219. https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.17219
Yan, S., Burgos, A., Kinson, C., & Eck, D. J. (2025). COMPARING BASEBALL PLAYERS ACROSS ERAS VIA NOVEL FULL HOUSE MODELING. Annals of Applied Statistics, 19(2), 1778-1799. https://doi.org/10.1214/24-AOAS1992
Eck, D. J. (2023). General model-free weighted envelope estimation. Electronic Journal of Statistics, 17(1), 519-547. https://doi.org/10.1214/23-EJS2105
Richardson, L. K., Beck, J., Eck, D. J., Shaw, R., & Wagenius, S. (2023). Fire effects on plant reproductive fitness vary among individuals, reflecting pollination-dependent mechanisms. American journal of botany, 110(4), Article e16160. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16160
Eck, D. J., Morozova, O., & Crawford, F. W. (2022). Randomization for the susceptibility effect of an infectious disease intervention. Journal of Mathematical Biology, 85(4), Article 37. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00285-022-01801-8