Biography:Carol Joyce Blumberg
Carol Joyce Blumberg is an American statistician whose professional interests include survey methodology, design of experiments, and statistics education.[1]
Education and career
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.[1]
Blumberg was a statistics professor at Winona State University from 1987 to 2006.[2] After her retirement as a professor emerita at Winona State,[1] she worked for the United States Department of Energy from 2006 to 2014.[2]
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.[3] She also led the International Statistical Literacy Project of the International Association for Statistical Education from 2001 to 2006.[4]
Recognition
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".[2] She is also an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Carol Joyce Blumberg, Professor Emerita, University of Auckland, https://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/cblumberg/, retrieved 2018-10-28
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Carol Blumberg", The Retiree Center Newsletter (Winona State University): 8, Fall 2017, https://www.winona.edu/retiree/Media/2017%20Fall%20REC%20Newsletter.pdf
- ↑ "Past Presidents and Program Chairs, 1970–2008", History of SIG, http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~ssivo/EDSTATS/HISTORY%20OF%20SIG.htm, retrieved 2018-10-28
- ↑ Schuyten, Gilberte (December 2006), "The IASE statistics education community in 2006", IASE Review, https://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/publications/review/2006.doc
- ↑ Individual members, International Statistical Institute, https://www.isi-web.org/index.php/about-isi/who-is-isi/members/indivual, retrieved 2018-10-28
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