Marcia Lynn Gumpertz is an American statistician known for her research on agricultural statistics,

spatial analysis Spatial analysis or spatial statistics includes any of the formal techniques which studies entities using their topological, geometric, or geographic properties. Spatial analysis includes a variety of techniques, many still in their early deve ...

, the

design of experiments The design of experiments (DOE, DOX, or experimental design) is the design of any task that aims to describe and explain the variation of information under conditions that are hypothesized to reflect the variation. The term is generally associ ...

, and

plant disease epidemiology Plant disease epidemiology is the study of disease in plant populations. Much like diseases of humans and other animals, plant diseases occur due to pathogens such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, oomycetes, nematodes, phytoplasmas, protozoa, and ...

. She has also studied employment issues for women and members of underrepresented minorities in science and technology. She is a professor of statistics at North Carolina State University.

Education and career

Gumpertz earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

in 1973, and a master's degree in statistics from

Oregon State University Oregon State University (OSU) is a public land-grant, research university in Corvallis, Oregon. OSU offers more than 200 undergraduate-degree programs along with a variety of graduate and doctoral degrees. It has the 10th largest engineering c ...

in 1979. She completed her Ph.D. at North Carolina State University in 1989. Her dissertation, ''Simple Estimators for the Linear Random Coefficient Regression Model and the Nonlinear Model with Variance Components'', was jointly supervised by Sastry Pantula and John Rawlings. She worked as a scientist for Northrop Services Inc., in Oregon, from 1980 to 1984, doing research for the Environmental Protection Agency, and joined the North Carolina State University on completing her doctorate in 1989. At North Carolina State University, she has also served as assistant vice provost for faculty diversity.

Book

With Francis G. Giesbrecht, Gumpertz is the co-author of the book ''Planning, Construction, and Statistical Analysis of Comparative Experiments'' (Wiley, 2004).

Recognition

Gumpertz was president of

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, the US national statistics honor society, for 2004–2006. She was elected as a

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in 2006, and given the Distinguished Achievement Award of the American Statistical Association Section on Statistics and the Environment in 2008.

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