Biography:Jennifer A. Hoeting

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Short description: American statistician

Jennifer Ann Hoeting is an American statistician known for her work with Adrian Raftery, David Madigan, and others on Bayesian model averaging. She is a professor of statistics at Colorado State University,[1] and executive editor of the open-access journal Advances in Statistical Climatology, Meteorology and Oceanography, published by Copernicus Publications.[2] With Geof H. Givens, a colleague at Colorado State, she is the author of Computational Statistics (Wiley, 2005; 2nd ed., 2013), a graduate textbook on computational methods in statistics.[3]

Education and career

Hoeting graduated from the University of Michigan in 1988, majoring in statistics and psychology, and completed her Ph.D. in statistics in 1994 from the University of Washington.[1] Her dissertation, jointly supervised by David Madigan and Adrian Raftery, was Accounting for Model Uncertainty in Linear Regression.[4] She joined the Colorado State faculty in 1994.[1] In 2011, she chaired the Section of Statistics and the Environment of the American Statistical Association.[5]

Awards and honors

In 2013, Hoeting was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[6] In 2015 she was selected to give the Professor Laureate Lecture of the College of Natural Sciences at Colorado State,[7] and won the Distinguished Achievement Medal of the Section of Statistics and the Environment of the American Statistical Association.[8]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Curriculum vitae, http://www.stat.colostate.edu/~jah/HoetingCV.pdf, retrieved 2017-11-06 
  2. Advances in Statistical Climatology, Meteorology and Oceanography, Copernicus Publications, https://www.advances-statistical-climatology-meteorology-oceanography.net/, retrieved 2017-11-06 
  3. Reviews of Computational Statistics:
  4. Jennifer A. Hoeting at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. "Section to Celebrate 20th Anniversary", Amstat News (American Statistical Association), February 1, 2010, http://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2010/02/01/envrfeb2010/, retrieved 2017-11-20 
  6. ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, http://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/ASA-Fellows-list.aspx, retrieved 2017-11-06 
  7. Professor Laureate Lecture, Colorado State University, 2015, http://www.natsci.colostate.edu/events/hoeting-professor-laureate-lecture/, retrieved 2017-11-20 
  8. ENVR Awards, Section of Statistics and the Environment of the American Statistical Association, http://community.amstat.org/envr/recognitionandawards/distinguishedachievementawards, retrieved 2017-11-20 

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