In Memoriam

Larry Pace was a statistics author, educator, and consultant. He lived in the upstate area of South Carolina in the town of Anderson. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in psychometrics (applied statistics) with a content major in industrial-organizational psychology. He wrote more than 100 publications including books, articles, chapters, and book and test reviews. In addition to a 35-year academic career, Larry worked in private industry as a personnel psychologist and organization effectiveness manager for Xerox Corporation, and as an organization development consultant for a private consulting firm. He programmed in a variety of languages and scripting languages including FORTRAN-IV, BASIC, APL, C++, JavaScript, Visual Basic, PHP, and ASP. Larry won numerous awards for teaching, research, and service. When he passed, he was a Graduate Research Professor at Keiser University, where he taught doctoral courses in statistics and research. He also taught adjunct classes for Clemson University. Larry and his wife, Shirley, were volunteers with Meals on Wheels and avid pet lovers—six cats and one dog, all rescued.

Larry wrote the first edition of Beginning R, as well as the beginning chapters of this second edition. He passed away on April 8, 2015.

Larry was married to Shirley Pace. He also leaves four grown children and two grandsons.