Deborah Jean Rumsey-Johnson (born 1961) [1] is an American statistician and statistics educator. She is an associated professor and program specialist in statistics at the Ohio State University. [2]
Rumsey earned her Ph.D. at Ohio State in 1993. Her dissertation, Nonresponse in Social Network Analysis, was supervised by Elizabeth Stasny. [3] In 2002 she became founding director of the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education. [4] She directed the Mathematics and Statistics Learning Center at Ohio State from 2000 to 2004, [5] and became a faculty member in the Ohio State Department of Statistics in 2004. [2] [5]
Rumsey is the author of five books on statistics in the " For Dummies" book series. [2] She is also the author of highly cited research publications on the statistics of people seeking employment, [6] and on education for statistical literacy. [7]
Rumsey was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2006. [8]
Deborah Jean Rumsey-Johnson (born 1961) [1] is an American statistician and statistics educator. She is an associated professor and program specialist in statistics at the Ohio State University. [2]
Rumsey earned her Ph.D. at Ohio State in 1993. Her dissertation, Nonresponse in Social Network Analysis, was supervised by Elizabeth Stasny. [3] In 2002 she became founding director of the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education. [4] She directed the Mathematics and Statistics Learning Center at Ohio State from 2000 to 2004, [5] and became a faculty member in the Ohio State Department of Statistics in 2004. [2] [5]
Rumsey is the author of five books on statistics in the " For Dummies" book series. [2] She is also the author of highly cited research publications on the statistics of people seeking employment, [6] and on education for statistical literacy. [7]
Rumsey was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2006. [8]