About the Author

Deborah J. Rumsey, PhD, is a Statistics Education Specialist and Auxiliary Professor in the Department of Statistics at The Ohio State University. Dr. Rumsey is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. She has won the Presidential Teaching Award from Kansas State University and has been inducted into the Wall of Inspiration at her high school alma mater, Burlington High School, in Burlington, Wisconsin. She is also the author of Statistics For Dummies, Statistics II For Dummies, Statistics Workbook For Dummies, Probability For Dummies, and Statistics Essentials For Dummies. She has published numerous papers and given many professional presentations and workshops on the subject of statistics education. She is the original conference designer of the biennial United States Conference on Teaching Statistics (USCOTS). Her passions include being with her family, camping and bird watching, getting seat time on her Kubota tractor, and cheering the Ohio State Buckeyes on to their next national championship.

David Unger is an instructor, advisor, and undergraduate research coordinator in the Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He regularly appears on the university’s List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students each semester. His previous works include contributions to 1,001 Statistics Practice Problems For Dummies and the online version of Statistics For Dummies. He has also authored several software workbooks ...

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