Jennifer Ann Hoeting is an American statistician known for her work with

Adrian Raftery Adrian E. Raftery (born 1955 in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish and American statistician and sociologist. He is the Boeing International Professor of Statistics and Sociology, and founding Director of the Center for Statistics and Social Scie ...

David Madigan David Bennett Madigan (born 11 December 1962) is an Irish-American statistician and academic. He is currently Provost and Senior Vice-President for Academic Affairs at Northeastern University. Previously he was Professor of Statistics at Colu ...

, and others on

Bayesian model averaging In statistics and machine learning, ensemble methods use multiple learning algorithms to obtain better predictive performance than could be obtained from any of the constituent learning algorithms alone. Unlike a statistical ensemble in statisti ...

. She is a professor of statistics at

Colorado State University Colorado State University (Colorado State or CSU) is a public land-grant research university in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is the flagship university of the Colorado State University System. Colorado State University is classified among "R1: ...

, and executive editor of the open-access journal ''Advances in Statistical Climatology, Meteorology and Oceanography'', published by

Copernicus Publications Copernicus Publications (also: Copernicus GmbH) is a publisher of scientific literature based in Göttingen, Germany. Founded in 1994, Copernicus Publications currently publishes 28 peer-reviewed open access scientific journals and other publicat ...

. 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.

Education and career

Hoeting graduated from the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

in 1988, majoring in statistics and psychology, and completed her Ph.D. in statistics in 1994 from the

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattle a ...

. Her dissertation, jointly supervised by David Madigan and Adrian Raftery, was ''Accounting for Model Uncertainty in Linear Regression''. She joined the Colorado State faculty in 1994. In 2011, she chaired the Section of Statistics and the Environment of the

American Statistical Association The American Statistical Association (ASA) is the main professional organization for statisticians and related professionals in the United States. It was founded in Boston, Massachusetts on November 27, 1839, and is the second oldest continuousl ...

Awards and honors

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

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