Statistics All-in-One For Dummies

About the Author

Deborah J. Rumsey, PhD, is a Statistics Education Specialist and member of the Teaching Faculty 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, fishing and bird watching, getting seat time on her Kubota tractor, and cheering the Ohio State Buckeyes on to their next national championship.

Dedication

This book is dedicated to my husband Eric Johnson and my son Clint Johnson. Without them, nothing else I do really matters. And to all the students out there taking a statistics class, may this book find you and help you achieve your goals.

Author’s Acknowledgments

Thanks to Lindsay Lefevere for giving me this opportunity and for supporting me throughout, and to Chrissy Guthrie, whose editing helped me to realize my dream of writing. ...