Carol Joyce Blumberg

Carol Joyce Blumberg (died 16 December 2023)[1] was an American statistician whose professional interests included survey methodology, design of experiments, and statistics education.[2]

Education and career

Blumberg earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Michigan in 1972 and 1974 respectively. She earned a second master's degree at Michigan State University in 1981, and completed her Ph.D. there in 1982.[2]

Blumberg was a statistics professor at Winona State University from 1987 to 2006.[3] After her retirement as a professor emerita at Winona State,[2] she worked for the United States Department of Energy from 2006 to 2014.[3]

She was program chair for the Educational Statistics Special Interest Group (SIG) of the American Educational Research Association in 1999–2000, and president of SIG in 2000–2001.[4] She also led the International Statistical Literacy Project of the International Association for Statistical Education from 2001 to 2006.[5]

Recognition

Blumberg was chosen to become a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2010 "for notable contributions to statistics education at the national and international level; for outstanding teaching, advising and mentoring; for extensive service to the profession; and for contributions to the fields of educational statistics and energy statistics".[3] She was also an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.[6]

References

1. Amstat News, Obituaries for March 2024 , retrieved 2024-03-05
2. Carol Joyce Blumberg, Professor Emerita, University of Auckland, retrieved 2018-10-28
3. "Carol Blumberg" (PDF), The Retiree Center Newsletter, Winona State University, p. 8, Fall 2017
4. "Past Presidents and Program Chairs, 1970–2008", History of SIG, retrieved 2018-10-28
5. Schuyten, Gilberte (December 2006), "The IASE statistics education community in 2006", IASE Review
6. Individual members, International Statistical Institute, archived from the original on 2017-07-29, retrieved 2018-10-28