Dianne Cook was the center half on her small high-school field hockey team that beat all the larger high schools to become the state hockey champion. Sports—both watching sports and playing sports—exposed her to basic statistics. Where she really learned how to do data analysis, however, was at Iowa State University, where she, Hadley Wickham, and Heike Hofmann entered a data analysis competition—the first of many to come.
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Extraordinary Impact of Statistics: A Special JSM Invited Session
In this invited session organized by the Caucus for Women in Statistics, speakers will talk about important statistical ideas and pivotal roles that statistics and statisticians have played in scientific discovery and social progress, as well as emerging challenges to statistics.