Dalene Kay Stangl is an American statistician known for development and promotion of Bayesian statistical methods in health-related research.

Education and career

Stangl grew up on a farm in Cass County, Iowa, and was the first in her family to attain a Ph.D. She graduated from

Iowa State University Iowa State University of Science and Technology (Iowa State University, Iowa State, or ISU) is a public land-grant research university in Ames, Iowa. Founded in 1858 as the Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm, Iowa State became one of the n ...

in 1978 with a bachelor's degree in psychology and sociology, and earned a master's degree in 1980 from the

University of Iowa The University of Iowa (UI, U of I, UIowa, or simply Iowa) is a public university, public research university in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. Founded in 1847, it is the oldest and largest university in the state. The University of Iowa is org ...

. She later attended graduate school at

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...

, she earned a second master's degree in statistics in 1988 and a Ph.D. in 1991. Her dissertation was ''Modeling Heterogeneity in Multi-center Clinical Trials Using Bayesian Hierarchical Models''. Stangl worked for 25 years as a faculty member at

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

, beginning in 1992 and eventually becoming Professor of the Practice of Statistics and Public Policy and director of the Institute of Statistics and Decision Science. In 2017 she moved back to Carnegie Mellon University where she is now emeritus.

Contributions

With Don Berry, Stangl has edited books on

Bayesian methods Bayesian inference is a method of statistical inference in which Bayes' theorem is used to update the probability for a hypothesis as more evidence or information becomes available. Bayesian inference is an important technique in statistics, and e ...

biostatistics Biostatistics (also known as biometry) are the development and application of statistical methods to a wide range of topics in biology. It encompasses the design of biological experiments, the collection and analysis of data from those experime ...

and on

meta-analysis A meta-analysis is a statistical analysis that combines the results of multiple scientific studies. Meta-analyses can be performed when there are multiple scientific studies addressing the same question, with each individual study reporting me ...

. She chaired the Section on Bayesian Statistical Science (2006) and the Committee on Women in Statistics (2011–2016) of the American Statistical Association. She is a founder of the annual Women in Statistics and Data Science conference.

Recognition

In 2002, Stangl was elected to be a

Fellow of the American Statistical Association Like many other academic professional societies, the American Statistical Association (ASA) uses the title of Fellow of the American Statistical Association as its highest honorary grade of membership. The number of new fellows per year is limited ...

.In 2019, Stangl was presented with a Founders Award by the American Statistical Association.

References

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