Carol Joyce Blumberg (died 16 December 2023) [1] was an American statistician whose professional interests included survey methodology, design of experiments, and statistics education. [2]
Blumberg earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Michigan in 1972 and 1974 respectively. She earned a second master's degree at Michigan State University in 1981, and completed her Ph.D. there in 1982. [2]
Blumberg was a statistics professor at Winona State University from 1987 to 2006. [3] After her retirement as a professor emerita at Winona State, [2] she worked for the United States Department of Energy from 2006 to 2014. [3]
She was program chair for the Educational Statistics Special Interest Group (SIG) of the American Educational Research Association in 1999–2000, and president of SIG in 2000–2001. [4] She also led the International Statistical Literacy Project of the International Association for Statistical Education from 2001 to 2006. [5]
Blumberg was chosen to become a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2010 "for notable contributions to statistics education at the national and international level; for outstanding teaching, advising and mentoring; for extensive service to the profession; and for contributions to the fields of educational statistics and energy statistics". [3] She was also an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. [6]