# Beth Chance

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American statistics educator

**Beth L. Chance** (born 1968)[1] is an American [statistics educator](/source/Statistics_education). She is a professor of statistics at the [California Polytechnic State University](/source/California_Polytechnic_State_University).[2]

## Education and career

Chance is originally from [San Diego, California](/source/San_Diego%2C_California).[3] She graduated from [Harvey Mudd College](/source/Harvey_Mudd_College) in 1990, majoring in [mathematics](/source/Mathematics) with a minor in psychology. She completed a Ph.D. in [operations research](/source/Operations_research), concentrating in statistics, at [Cornell University](/source/Cornell_University) in 1994. Her dissertation, *Behavior Characterization and Estimation for General Hierarchical Multivariate Linear Regression Models*, was supervised by Martin Wells.[4]

She was a faculty member at the [University of the Pacific](/source/University_of_the_Pacific_(United_States)) from 1994 until 1999, when she moved to the California Polytechnic State University.[4] She was chair of the [American Statistical Association](/source/American_Statistical_Association) Section on Statistics and [Data Science](/source/Data_science) Education for 2018.[3]

## Books

Chance is the author or coauthor of multiple statistics textbooks including:[4]

- *Workshop Statistics: Discovery with Data* (with A. Rossman and R. Lock, 1998; 4th ed., 2011)[5]

- *Statistics: Preparing for the AP Exam* (with J. Bohan, 2005)

- *Statistical Questions from the Classroom* (with J. M. Shaughnessy, 2005)[6]

- *Focus in High School Mathematics: Reasoning and Sense Making in Statistics and Probability* (with J. M. Shaughnessy and H. Kranendonk, 2009)[7]

- *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 [American Statistical Association](/source/American_Statistical_Association) Section on Statistics and Data Science Education.[8] In 2003, she won the [Mu Sigma Rho](/source/Mu_Sigma_Rho) Statistics Education Award.[9][10]

She became a [Fellow of the American Statistical Association](/source/Fellow_of_the_American_Statistical_Association) in 2005.[3] She is also an Elected Member of the [International Statistical Institute](/source/International_Statistical_Institute).[11]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-born_1-0)** Birth year from [Library of Congress catalog entry](http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97124665.html), accessed 2020-06-17

1. **[^](#cite_ref-calpoly_2-0)** [*Beth Chance*](https://statistics.calpoly.edu/beth-chance), Cal Poly Statistics, retrieved 2020-06-17

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-statlife_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-statlife_3-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-statlife_3-2) ["Beth Chance"](https://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2018/03/01/beth-chance/), A Statistician's Life, Celebrating Women in Statistics, *Amstat News*, American Statistical Association, March 1, 2018

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-cv_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-cv_4-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-cv_4-2) [*Curriculum vitae*](https://statweb.calpoly.edu/bchance/cv.html), retrieved 2020-06-17

1. **[^](#cite_ref-ws_5-0)** Reviews of *Workshop Statistics*: - Fünning, Hans Christian, *zbMATH*, [Zbl](/source/Zbl_(identifier)) [1031.00007](https://zbmath.org/?format=complete&q=an:1031.00007){{[citation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Citation)}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_untitled_periodical)) - Altenburg, Hans-Peter, *zbMATH*, [Zbl](/source/Zbl_(identifier)) [0990.65010](https://zbmath.org/?format=complete&q=an:0990.65010){{[citation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Citation)}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_untitled_periodical)) - Cleary, Richard (November 1999), *The American Statistician*, **53** (4): 388–389, [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.2307/2686062](https://doi.org/10.2307%2F2686062), [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR_(identifier)) [2686062](https://www.jstor.org/stable/2686062){{[citation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Citation)}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_untitled_periodical)) - Bose, Mausumi (August 2000), *Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series B*, **62** (2): 345, [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR_(identifier)) [25053142](https://www.jstor.org/stable/25053142){{[citation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Citation)}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_untitled_periodical)) - [Huzurbazar, S.](/source/Snehalata_V._Huzurbazar); Ipiña, Lynne (November 2000), *Technometrics*, **42** (4): 440–441, [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.2307/1270972](https://doi.org/10.2307%2F1270972), [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR_(identifier)) [1270972](https://www.jstor.org/stable/1270972){{[citation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Citation)}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_untitled_periodical)) - Bose, Mausumi (April 2001), *Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series B*, **63** (1): 125, [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR_(identifier)) [25042385](https://www.jstor.org/stable/25042385){{[citation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Citation)}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_untitled_periodical)) - Richardson, Mary (November 2008), *The American Statistician*, **62** (4): 363, [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1198/tas.2008.s278](https://doi.org/10.1198%2Ftas.2008.s278), [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR_(identifier)) [27644080](https://www.jstor.org/stable/27644080), [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [119915639](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:119915639){{[citation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Citation)}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_untitled_periodical))

1. **[^](#cite_ref-sqc_6-0)** Reviews of *Statistical Questions from the Classroom*: - Watson, Jane (2005), ["Review"](https://go.gale.com/ps/anonymous?id=GALE%7CA164525525), *Australian Mathematics Teacher*, **61** (4): 33 - Sonnabend, Thomas (April 2006), *The Mathematics Teacher*, **99** (8): 592, [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR_(identifier)) [27972062](https://www.jstor.org/stable/27972062){{[citation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Citation)}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_untitled_periodical))

1. **[^](#cite_ref-focus_7-0)** Review of *Focus in High School Mathematics*: - Galeriu, Calin (April 2011), *The Mathematics Teacher*, **104** (8): 637, [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR_(identifier)) [20876973](https://www.jstor.org/stable/20876973){{[citation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Citation)}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_untitled_periodical))

1. **[^](#cite_ref-waller_8-0)** [*Waller Award*](https://community.amstat.org/statisticaleducationsection/awards/waller-award), ASA Section on Statistics and Data Science Education, retrieved 2020-06-17

1. **[^](#cite_ref-msr_9-0)** [*Mu Sigma Rho Award*](https://community.amstat.org/statisticaleducationsection/awards/mu-sigma-rho-award), ASA Section on Statistics and Data Science Education, retrieved 2020-06-17

1. **[^](#cite_ref-msr2_10-0)** [*Beth Chance Wins the 2003 Mu Sigma Rho Statistics Education Award*](https://www.stat.purdue.edu/msr/MSRTeachingAward_2003.pdf) (PDF), Mu Sigma Rho, retrieved 2020-06-17 – via Purdue University Statistics Department

1. **[^](#cite_ref-isi_11-0)** [*ISI Elected Members*](https://web.archive.org/web/20200325121053/https://www.isi-web.org/index.php/isi-elected-members), International Statistical Institute, archived from [the original](https://www.isi-web.org/index.php/isi-elected-members) on 2020-03-25, retrieved 2020-06-17

## External links

- [Home page](https://statweb.calpoly.edu/chance)

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