Darren Homrighausen

Instructional Associate Professor

Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University
Address: Blocker 450a
Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX
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Overview

Over time, I've become much more interested in teaching; particularly at the masters level. I have taught and developed a wide variety of classes, ranging from undergraduate to advanced PhD levels at a variety of universities. See below for a list of classes along with a good amount of course materials I have produced.

In my research, I have done work in several applied and theoretical areas. I have worked extensively on developing both methods and theory for solving various problems in astronomy and cosmology. This research introduced me to the field known as inverse problems, where the observed data are actually noisy version of smooth functionals of the object of interest. Additionally, I have spent a fair amount of time researching the prediction risk implications of empirical tuning parameter selection for lasso-type methods. More recently, I have become interested in addressing some of the philosophies that currently dominate the field of macroeconomic forecasting. Most notably, the overparameterization and complexity that results the over reliance on microeconomic foundations for doing predictions. Lastly, I have worked on examining the statistical implications of computational approximations. More specifically, investigating the intriguing possibility that these approximations can actually improve statistical performance.

For a cv, click here.

Teaching Fall 2023
  • STAT 211: Principles of Statistics I
  • STAT 604: Topics in Statistical Computations
  • STAT 656: Applied Analytics (Distance only)
Spring 2023
  • STAT 211: Principles of Statistics I
  • STAT 656: Applied Analytics (old Syllabus for reference only)
Fall 2022
  • On Leave
Spring 2022
  • STAT 211: Principles of Statistics I
  • STAT 656: Applied Analytics (old Syllabus for reference only)
  • (I'm periodically asked about the difference in 636 vs. 656. See here for a discussion)
Fall 2021
  • STAT 211: Principles of Statistics I
  • STAT 636: Applied Multivariate Analysis and Statistical Learning
  • STAT 656: Applied Analytics (Distance only)
Spring 2021
  • STAT 211: Principles of Statistics I
  • STAT 656: Applied Analytics
Fall 2020
  • STAT 636: Applied Multivariate Analysis and Statistical Learning
  • STAT 656: Applied Analytics
Spring 2020
  • STAT 211: Principles of Statistics I
  • STAT 656: Applied Analytics (Distance only)
Fall 2019
  • STAT 636: Applied Multivariate Analysis and Statistical Learning
  • STAT 656: Applied Analytics
Summer 2019Spring 2019Spring 2018Fall 2017Spring 2017
  • STAT 6306: Introduction to Data Science (See Spring 2018 for a version of this course)
  • STAT 6395: Statistical Machine Learning (See Fall 2015 or Fall 2014 for two previous versions of the course)
Fall 2016Spring 2016Fall 2015Spring 2015Fall 2014Spring 2014
  • STAT 460: Applied Multivariate Analysis
Fall 2013Spring 2013
  • STAT 460: Applied Multivariate Analysis
Fall 2012
Talks
Bio I have a bachelors degree from the University of Colorado in economics and math, and a masters and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in statistics, under the direction of Chris Genovese. Outside of academia, I enjoy welding and metal working, riding my bike, and, perhaps most of all, coffee.

Students If you would like to work with me, please send me an email with a brief description of your research interests. We'll set up a meeting to chat.