Jennifer Ann Hoeting is an American statistician known for her work with Adrian Raftery, David Madigan, and others on Bayesian model averaging. She is a professor of statistics at Colorado State University,[1] and executive editor of the open-access journal Advances in Statistical Climatology, Meteorology and Oceanography, published by Copernicus Publications.[2] With Geof H. Givens, a colleague at Colorado State, she is the author of Computational Statistics (Wiley, 2005; 2nd ed., 2013), a graduate textbook on computational methods in statistics.[3]

Education and career

Hoeting graduated from the University of Michigan in 1988, majoring in statistics and psychology, and completed her Ph.D. in statistics in 1994 from the University of Washington.[1] Her dissertation, jointly supervised by David Madigan and Adrian Raftery, was Accounting for Model Uncertainty in Linear Regression.[4] She joined the Colorado State faculty in 1994.[1] In 2011, she chaired the Section of Statistics and the Environment of the American Statistical Association.[5]

Awards and honors

In 2013, Hoeting was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[6] In 2015 she was selected to give the Professor Laureate Lecture of the College of Natural Sciences at Colorado State,[7] and won the Distinguished Achievement Medal of the Section of Statistics and the Environment of the American Statistical Association.[8]

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