Workshop Statistics: Discovery with Data, Fourth Edition

About the Authors

Allan Rossman and Beth Chance, professors of statistics at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, are coauthors of Workshop Statistics and Investigating Statistical Concepts, Applications, and Methods. They have received several grants from the National Science Foundation to support curriculum development projects for introductory statistics. They have also served as coeditors of STATS: The Magazine for Students of Statistics and the Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Teaching Statistics. They have published articles on teaching statistics in The American Statistician and The College Mathematics Journal, and have given scores of statistics education presentations and workshops nationally and internationally. Their collection of online applets for exploring statistical concepts was awarded the 2009 CAUSEweb Resource of the Year Award and a 2011 MERLOT Award for Exemplary Learning Materials. Both have served in various leadership roles for the Advanced Placement program in Statistics.

Allan Rossman received his PhD in statistics from Carnegie Mellon University. Before he came to Cal Poly, he taught for twelve years at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, where he served a term as department chair. He is president of the International Association for Statistics Education from 2007–2009 and was the Program Chair for the 2007 Joint Statistical Meetings. He has served as chair of the ASA's Section on Statistical Education and of ...