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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

  1. ^ Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, accessed 2020-06-17
  2. ^ Beth Chance, Cal Poly Statistics, retrieved 2020-06-17
  3. ^ a b c "Beth Chance", A Statistician's Life, Celebrating Women in Statistics, Amstat News, American Statistical Association, March 1, 2018
  4. ^ a b c Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2020-06-17
  5. ^ Reviews of Workshop Statistics:
  6. ^ Reviews of Statistical Questions from the Classroom:
    • Watson, Jane (2005), "Review", Australian Mathematics Teacher, 61 (4): 33
    • Sonnabend, Thomas (April 2006), The Mathematics Teacher, 99 (8): 592, JSTOR 27972062{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  7. ^ Review of Focus in High School Mathematics:
    • Galeriu, Calin (April 2011), The Mathematics Teacher, 104 (8): 637, JSTOR 20876973{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  8. ^ Waller Award, ASA Section on Statistics and Data Science Education, retrieved 2020-06-17
  9. ^ Mu Sigma Rho Award, ASA Section on Statistics and Data Science Education, retrieved 2020-06-17
  10. ^ Beth Chance Wins the 2003 Mu Sigma Rho Statistics Education Award (PDF), Mu Sigma Rho, retrieved 2020-06-17 – via Purdue University Statistics Department
  11. ^ ISI Elected Members, International Statistical Institute, archived from the original on 2020-03-25, retrieved 2020-06-17

External links[edit]

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