Monica Christine Jackson is an American statistician and academic administrator, the deputy provost and dean of faculty at American University. Her research focuses on spatial statistics and disease monitoring,[1] pertaining to the analysis of identifying cancer clusters and assessing global clustering trends.[2]
Jackson is African American, originally from Kansas City, Missouri,[3] and has two brothers, one her twin.[4] She loved mathematics from a very young age,[3] and after growing bored with the public school mathematics curriculum available to her, transferred in middle school to a more demanding program at a Catholic girls' school, Notre Dame de Sion.[4] She majored in mathematics at Clark Atlanta University, graduating in 1992, and continued there for a master's degree in 1994.[5] She completed her Ph.D. in statistics in 2003 at the University of Maryland, College Park, with the dissertation Spatial Data Analysis for Discrete Data on a Lattice supervised by Estelle Russek-Cohen.[6]
Postdoctoral research at Emory University led her to her focus on the spatial statistics of disease monitoring.[4] She joined American University as an assistant professor of statistics in 2005. She earned tenure there as an associate professor in 2011.[5] After becoming a full professor, and associate dean of undergraduate studies, she was appointed as deputy provost and dean of faculty in 2021.[7]
Selected publications
Jackson is a coauthor of the book Elementary Statistics: A Guide to Data Analysis Using R (Cognella, 2022, with Nancy Glenn-Griesinger and Daniel Vrinceanu).[4]
Her research articles include:
Jackson, Monica C; Huang, Lan; Luo, Jun; Hachey, Mark; Feuer, Eric (2009), "Comparison of tests for spatial heterogeneity on data with global clustering patterns and outliers", International Journal of Health Geographics, 8 (1) 55, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, doi:10.1186/1476-072x-8-55, PMC2770045, PMID19822013
Jackson, Monica C.; Huang, Lan; Xie, Qian; Tiwari, Ram C. (2010), "A modified version of Moran's I", International Journal of Health Geographics, 9 (1) 33, doi:10.1186/1476-072x-9-33, PMC2903534, PMID20587045
Arab, Ali; Jackson, Monica C.; Kongoli, Cezar (March 2014), "Modelling the effects of weather and climate on malaria distributions in West Africa", Malaria Journal, 13 (1) 126, doi:10.1186/1475-2875-13-126, PMC3976358, PMID24678602
References
↑"Monica Jackson", Faculty, American University, retrieved 2025-02-19
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