Department of Statistics
Dr. Lamar Merritt
Assistant Teaching Professor of Statistics
Faculty profile
About Dr. Lamar Merritt
Lamar Merritt teaches sections of Statistics for Behavioral & Life Sciences. His teaching scholarship emphasizes simulation-based inference, bootstrap resampling methods, and community-engaged data analysis projects for undergraduate researchers across introductory disciplines. Prior to joining Alkimi, he served as a statistical education postdoctoral fellow at Tamarack State University.
Dr. Lamar Merritt is a member of the Department of Statistics in the College of Arts & Sciences.
Areas of expertise
- Simulation-based inference
- Bootstrap resampling
- Community data projects
- Undergraduate statistics education
Contact
- Office
- Ashby Hall 203
- Building
- Ashby Hall
Fall 2026 office hours
Dr. Lamar Merritt isn't teaching in Fall 2026. Email to arrange a meeting.
2026–27
Teaching
In 2026–27 Dr. Lamar Merritt teaches sections of STAT 205; your own section's instructor is listed in AlkimiHub. Other teaching rotates by year. For the department's courses, see the Department of Statistics.
Meeting with faculty
At least 3 hours per week during the semester, across at least 2 days, with at least 1 hour available virtually. Times are on each course syllabus in Canvas.