Beth L. Chance (born 1968) is an American statistics educator. She is a professor of statistics at the

California Polytechnic State University California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (California Polytechnic State University, Cal Poly"Cal Poly" may also refer to California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt in Arcata, California or California State Polytechnic Univ ...

Education and career

Chance is originally from

San Diego, California San Diego ( , ; ) is a city on the Pacific Ocean coast of Southern California located immediately adjacent to the Mexico–United States border. With a 2020 population of 1,386,932, it is the List of United States cities by population, eigh ...

. She graduated from

Harvey Mudd College Harvey Mudd College (HMC) is a private college in Claremont, California, focused on science and engineering. It is part of the Claremont Colleges, which share adjoining campus grounds and resources. The college enrolls 902 undergraduate students ...

in 1990, majoring in mathematics with a minor in psychology. She completed a Ph.D. in

operations research Operations research ( en-GB, operational research) (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a discipline that deals with the development and application of analytical methods to improve dec ...

, concentrating in statistics, at

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to ...

in 1994. Her dissertation, ''Behavior Characterization and Estimation for General Hierarchical Multivariate Linear Regression Models'', was supervised by Martin Wells. She was a faculty member at the

University of the Pacific University of the Pacific may refer to: *University of the Pacific (Colombia) *University of the Pacific (Ecuador) *University of the Pacific (Peru) * University of the Pacific (United States) *University of Asia Pacific, Bangladesh * University of ...

from 1994 until 1999, when she moved to the California Polytechnic State University. She was chair of the

American Statistical Association The American Statistical Association (ASA) is the main professional organization for statisticians and related professionals in the United States. It was founded in Boston, Massachusetts on November 27, 1839, and is the second oldest continuous ...

Section on Statistics and Data Science Education for 2018.

Books

Chance is the author or coauthor of multiple statistics textbooks including: *''Workshop Statistics: Discovery with Data'' (with A. Rossman and R. Lock, 1998; 4th ed., 2011) *''Statistics: Preparing for the AP Exam'' (with J. Bohan, 2005) *''Statistical Questions from the Classroom'' (with J. M. Shaughnessy, 2005) *''Focus in High School Mathematics: Reasoning and Sense Making in Statistics and Probability'' (with J. M. Shaughnessy and H. Kranendonk, 2009) *''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 recipient of the Waller Education Award of the

Section on Statistics and Data Science Education. In 2003, she won the

Mu Sigma Rho Mu Sigma Rho () is the US national statistics honor society. History Founded in 1968 at Iowa State University, Mu Sigma Rho seeks to promote and encourage scholarly activity in statistics, and to recognize outstanding achievement among student ...

Statistics Education Award. She became a

Fellow of the American Statistical Association Like many other academic professional societies, the American Statistical Association (ASA) uses the title of Fellow of the American Statistical Association as its highest honorary grade of membership. The number of new fellows per year is limited ...

in 2005. She is also an Elected Member of the

International Statistical Institute The International Statistical Institute (ISI) is a professional association of statisticians. It was founded in 1885, although there had been international statistical congresses since 1853. The institute has about 4,000 elected members from gov ...

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