Biography:Beth Chance
Beth L. Chance (born 1968)[1] is an American statistics educator. She is a professor of statistics at the California Polytechnic State University.[2]
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]
- Workshop Statistics: Discovery with Data (with A. Rossman and R. Lock, 1998; 4th ed., 2011)[5]
- Statistics: Preparing for the AP Exam (with J. Bohan, 2005)
- Statistical Questions from the Classroom (with J. M. Shaughnessy, 2005)[6]
- Focus in High School Mathematics: Reasoning and Sense Making in Statistics and Probability (with J. M. Shaughnessy and H. Kranendonk, 2009)[7]
- Introduction to Statistical Inference (with N. Tintle, G. Cobb, A. Rossman, S. Roy, T. Swanson, and J. VanderStoep, 2016)
- Intermediate Statistical Investigations (N. Tintle, K. McGaughey, S. Roy, T. Swanson, and J. VanderStoep, 2019)
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
- ↑ Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, accessed 2020-06-17
- ↑ Beth Chance, Cal Poly Statistics, https://statistics.calpoly.edu/beth-chance, retrieved 2020-06-17
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Beth Chance", Amstat News (American Statistical Association), March 1, 2018, https://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2018/03/01/beth-chance/
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Curriculum vitae, https://statweb.calpoly.edu/bchance/cv.html, retrieved 2020-06-17
- ↑ Reviews of Workshop Statistics:
- Fünning, Hans Christian, "none", zbMATH
- Altenburg, Hans-Peter, "none", zbMATH
- Cleary, Richard (November 1999), "none", The American Statistician 53 (4): 388–389, doi:10.2307/2686062
- Bose, Mausumi (August 2000), "none", Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series B 62 (2): 345
- Huzurbazar, S.; Ipiña, Lynne (November 2000), "none", Technometrics 42 (4): 440–441, doi:10.2307/1270972
- Bose, Mausumi (April 2001), "none", Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series B 63 (1): 125
- Richardson, Mary (November 2008), "none", The American Statistician 62 (4): 363, doi:10.1198/tas.2008.s278
- ↑ Reviews of Statistical Questions from the Classroom:
- Watson, Jane (2005), "Review", Australian Mathematics Teacher 61 (4): 33, https://go.gale.com/ps/anonymous?id=GALE%7CA164525525
- Sonnabend, Thomas (April 2006), "none", The Mathematics Teacher 99 (8): 592
- ↑ Review of Focus in High School Mathematics:
- Galeriu, Calin (April 2011), "none", The Mathematics Teacher 104 (8): 637
- ↑ Waller Award, ASA Section on Statistics and Data Science Education, https://community.amstat.org/statisticaleducationsection/awards/waller-award, retrieved 2020-06-17
- ↑ Mu Sigma Rho Award, ASA Section on Statistics and Data Science Education, https://community.amstat.org/statisticaleducationsection/awards/mu-sigma-rho-award, retrieved 2020-06-17
- ↑ Beth Chance Wins the 2003 Mu Sigma Rho Statistics Education Award, Mu Sigma Rho, https://www.stat.purdue.edu/msr/MSRTeachingAward_2003.pdf, retrieved 2020-06-17
- ↑ ISI Elected Members, International Statistical Institute, https://www.isi-web.org/index.php/isi-elected-members, retrieved 2020-06-17
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