E. Jacquelin Dietz (1951-2020) was an American statistician, interested in nonparametric and

multivariate statistics Multivariate statistics is a subdivision of statistics encompassing the simultaneous observation and analysis of more than one outcome variable. Multivariate statistics concerns understanding the different aims and background of each of the dif ...

and in statistics education. She was a professor at

North Carolina State University North Carolina State University (NC State) is a public land-grant research university in Raleigh, North Carolina. Founded in 1887 and part of the University of North Carolina system, it is the largest university in the Carolinas. The universit ...

until 2004, when she moved to

Meredith College Meredith College is a private women's liberal arts college and coeducational graduate school in Raleigh, North Carolina. As of 2021 Meredith enrolls approximately 1,500 women in its undergraduate programs and 300 men and women in its graduate pr ...

. At Meredith, she was head of the mathematics and computer science department for five years, from approximately 2007 to 2012, and taught statistics for 10 years. Dietz was the founding editor-in-chief of ''

Journal of Statistics Education The ''Journal of Statistics Education'' is a double-blind peer-reviewed scientific journal. It was established in 1992 at North Carolina State University by E. Jacquelin Dietz, and became an official publication of the American Statistical Associ ...

''.

Education and career

Dietz graduated from

Oberlin College Oberlin College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio. It is the oldest Mixed-sex education, coeducational liberal arts college in the United S ...

in 1973, majoring in mathematics and psychobiology, a subject she added to her mathematics courses in order to make her studies less theoretical and more relevant. She entered graduate study at the

University of Connecticut The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university in Storrs, Connecticut, a village in the town of Mansfield. The primary 4,400-acre (17.8 km2) campus is in Storrs, approximately a half hour's drive from Hart ...

in biobehavioral science, but after taking a required statistics course switched to that subject, and completed a master's degree and a Ph.D. in 1975 and 1978 respectively. Her dissertation, supervised by Timothy John Killeen, was ''Bivariate Nonparametric Tests for the One-Sample Location Problem''.

Contributions to statistics education

Dietz's first scholarly publication in statistics education was in 1989. She founded the ''Journal of Statistics Education'' in 1992, and shepherded it into becoming an official publication of the American Statistical Association beginning in 1999; she remained as its editor until 2000.

Recognition

Dietz was elected as a

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in 1996. She was also a winner of the Founder's Award of the American Statistical Association.

References

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