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 receipient 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
  1. Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, accessed 2020-06-17
  2. Beth Chance, Cal Poly Statistics, retrieved 2020-06-17
  3. "Beth Chance", A Statistician's Life, Celebrating Women in Statistics, AmStat News, American Statistical Association, March 1, 2018
  4. Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2020-06-17
  5. Reviews of Workshop Statistics:
    • Fünning, Hans Christian, zbMATH, Zbl 1031.00007CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Altenburg, Hans-Peter, zbMATH, Zbl 0990.65010CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Cleary, Richard (November 1999), The American Statistician, 53 (4): 388–389, doi:10.2307/2686062, JSTOR 2686062CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Bose, Mausumi (August 2000), Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series B, 62 (2): 345, JSTOR 25053142CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Huzurbazar, S.; Ipiña, Lynne (November 2000), Technometrics, 42 (4): 440–441, doi:10.2307/1270972, JSTOR 1270972CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Bose, Mausumi (April 2001), Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series B, 63 (1): 125, JSTOR 25042385CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Richardson, Mary (November 2008), The American Statistician, 62 (4): 363, doi:10.1198/tas.2008.s278, JSTOR 27644080, S2CID 119915639CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  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 27972062CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  7. Review of Focus in High School Mathematics:
    • Galeriu, Calin (April 2011), The Mathematics Teacher, 104 (8): 637, JSTOR 20876973CS1 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, retrieved 2020-06-17
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