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. Thanks to Sara Conroy for her technical reading and support, and to Marylouise Wiack for her great copy editing.
Publisher’s Acknowledgments
Executive Editor: Lindsay Sandman Lefevere
Project Manager and Development Editor: Christina N. Guthrie
Managing Editors: Kelsey Baird, Kristie Pyles
Copy Editor: Marylouise Wiack
Technical Editor: Sara Conroy, PhD
Production Editor: Saikarthick Kumarasamy
Cover Photos: © Vasya Kobelev/Shutterstock