Beth Chance

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Beth L. Chance (born 1968) [1] is an American statistics educator. She is a professor of statistics at the California Polytechnic State University. [2]

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Education and career

Chance is originally from San Diego, California. [3] She graduated from Harvey Mudd College in 1990, majoring in mathematics with a minor in psychology. She completed a Ph.D. in operations research, concentrating in statistics, at Cornell University in 1994. Her dissertation, Behavior Characterization and Estimation for General Hierarchical Multivariate Linear Regression Models, was supervised by Martin Wells. [4]

She was a faculty member at the University of the Pacific from 1994 until 1999, when she moved to the California Polytechnic State University. [4] She was chair of the American Statistical Association Section on Statistics and Data Science Education for 2018. [3]

Books

Chance is the author or coauthor of multiple statistics textbooks including: [4]

Recognition

In 2002, Chance became the inaugural recipient of the Waller Education Award of the American Statistical Association Section on Statistics and Data Science Education. [8] In 2003, she won the Mu Sigma Rho Statistics Education Award. [9] [10]

She became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2005. [3] She is also an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute. [11]

References

  1. ↑ Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, accessed 2020-06-17
  2. ↑ Beth Chance, Cal Poly Statistics, retrieved 2020-06-17
  3. 1 2 3 "Beth Chance", A Statistician's Life, Celebrating Women in Statistics, Amstat News, American Statistical Association, March 1, 2018
  4. 1 2 3 Curriculum vitae , retrieved 2020-06-17
  5. ↑ Reviews of Workshop Statistics:
  6. ↑ Reviews of Statistical Questions from the Classroom:
    • Watson, Jane (2005), "Review", Australian Mathematics Teacher, 61 (4): 33
    • Sonnabend, Thomas (April 2006), The Mathematics Teacher, 99 (8): 592, JSTOR   27972062 {{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  7. ↑ Review of Focus in High School Mathematics:
    • Galeriu, Calin (April 2011), The Mathematics Teacher, 104 (8): 637, JSTOR   20876973 {{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  8. ↑ Waller Award, ASA Section on Statistics and Data Science Education, retrieved 2020-06-17
  9. ↑ Mu Sigma Rho Award, ASA Section on Statistics and Data Science Education, retrieved 2020-06-17
  10. ↑ Beth Chance Wins the 2003 Mu Sigma Rho Statistics Education Award (PDF), Mu Sigma Rho, retrieved 2020-06-17– via Purdue University Statistics Department
  11. ↑ ISI Elected Members, International Statistical Institute, archived from the original on 2020-03-25, retrieved 2020-06-17
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