Beth L. Chance (born 1968)[1] is an American statistics educator. She is a professor of statistics at the California Polytechnic State University.[2]
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]
Chance is the author or coauthor of multiple statistics textbooks including:[4]
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]
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