Statistics: The Exploration & Analysis of Data

About Cram101 Textbook ReviewsJay DevoreRoxy Peck

Jay Devore is Professor Emeritus of Statistics at California Polytechnic State University. He earned his undergraduate degree in Engineering Science from the University of California at Berkeley spent a year at the University of Sheffield in England and finished his Ph.D. in statistics at Stanford University. Jay previously taught at the University of Florida and at Oberlin College and has had visiting appointments at Stanford Harvard the University of Washington New York University and Columbia University. From 1998 to 2006 he served as Chair of the Cal Poly Statistics Department. In addition to this book Jay has written several other widely used statistics texts for engineers and scientists and a book in applied mathematical statistics. He recently coauthored a text in probability and stochastic processes. He is the recipient of a distinguished teaching award from Cal Poly is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and has served several terms as an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association. In his spare time he enjoys reading cooking and eating good food tennis and travel to faraway places. He is especially proud of his wife Carol a retired elementary school teacher his daughter Allison who has held several high-level positions in nonprofit organizations in Boston and New York City and his daughter Teresa a high school teacher in Brooklyn. Roxy Peck is emerita associate dean of the College of Science and Mathematics and professor of statistics emerita at California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo. As a faculty member at Cal Poly from 1979 until 2009 Dr. Peck served for six years as chair of the statistics department before becoming associate dean a position she held for 13 years. She received an M.S. in mathematics and a Ph.D. in applied statistics from the University of California Riverside. Dr. Peck is nationally known in the area of statistics education and she was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award in Statistics Education at the U.S. Conference on Teaching Statistics in 2009. In 2003 she received the American Statistical Associations Founders Award recognizing her contributions to K-12 and undergraduate statistics education. She is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and an elected member of the International Statistics Institute. Dr. Peck served for five years as the chief reader for the Advanced Placement (AP) Statistics Exam and has chaired the American Statistical Associations Joint Committee with the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics on Curriculum in Statistics and Probability for Grades K-12 and the Section on Statistics Education. In addition to her texts in introductory statistics Dr. Peck is co-editor of STATISTICAL CASE STUDIES: A COLLABORATION BETWEEN ACADEME AND INDUSTRY and is a member of the editorial board for STATISTICS: A GUIDE TO THE UNKNOWN 4TH EDITION. Outside of the classroom she likes to travel and spends her spare time reading mystery novels. Dr. Peck also collects Navajo rugs and travels to Arizona and New Mexico whenever she can find the time.