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American statistician and statistics educator From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Deborah Jean Rumsey-Johnson (born 1961)[1] is an American statistician and statistics educator. She is an associated professor and program specialist in statistics at the Ohio State University.[2]
Rumsey earned her Ph.D. at Ohio State in 1993. Her dissertation, Nonresponse in Social Network Analysis, was supervised by Elizabeth Stasny.[3] In 2002 she became founding director of the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education.[4] She directed the Mathematics and Statistics Learning Center at Ohio State from 2000 to 2004,[5] and became a faculty member in the Ohio State Department of Statistics in 2004.[2][5]
Rumsey is the author of five books on statistics in the "For Dummies" book series.[2] She is also the author of highly cited research publications on the statistics of people seeking employment,[6] and on education for statistical literacy.[7]
Rumsey was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2006.[8]
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