Ann R. Cannon | |
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Born | 8 November 1966 |
Education | B.A. Mathematics, Grinnell College M.S. Statistics, Iowa State University Ph.D Statistics, Iowa State University |
Occupation(s) | Watson M. Davis Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Cornell College |
Known for | Statistics education |
Notable work | "STAT2: Building Models for a World of Data" (2012) "STAT2: Modeling with Regression and ANOVA" (2019) |
Honours | Fellow of the American Statistics Association (2019) Mu Sigma Rho William D. Warde Statistics Education Award (2017) |
Ann C. Russey Cannon is an American statistics educator, the Watson M. Davis Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Cornell College in Iowa. [1] [2]
Cannon is a graduate of Grinnell College, [1] and completed a doctorate in statistics at Iowa State University in 1994. Her dissertation, Signal Detection Using Categorical Temporal Data, was jointly supervised by William Q. Meeker Jr. and Noel Cressie. [3]
Cannon is one of the co-authors of the statistics textbook Stat2: Building Models for a World of Data (W. H. Freeman, 2013). [2] The second edition of this textbook was released under the title Stat2: Modeling with Regression and ANOVA (W.H. Freeman, 2019). [4]
In 2019 she was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. [5]
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