Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel (born 1982) is a

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and professor of the practice at

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, and a professional educator at

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. She is the author of several open source statistics textbooks and is an instructor for

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. She is the chair-elect of the Statistical Education Section of the

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. Previously, she was a senior lecturer at

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Education

Çetinkaya-Rundel grew up in

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and graduated from

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, before coming to the United States for her undergraduate studies to study actuarial science at

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. After working as an

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at Buck Consultants, Çetinkaya-Rundel enrolled in graduate school at the

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. She earned her master's degree and PhD in statistics at UCLA where her dissertation on estimating the impact of

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was supervised of Jan de Leeuw.

Research and career

Çetinkaya-Rundel coauthored three open-access textbooks, '' OpenIntro Statistics'', ''Introductory Statistics with Randomization and Simulation'', and ''OpenIntro: Advanced High School Statistics''. She is an author on the associated

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, openintro. Çetinkaya-Rundel is also a proponent of reproducible analysis in the context of statistics education.

Awards and honours

Çetinkaya-Rundel was elected as a

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of the

(ASA) in 2020. She was elected chair of the ASA Statistical Computing program in 2021.

Selected publications

* ''R for Data Science'' *''Introductory statistics with randomization and simulation'' *''OpenIntro Statistics'' *''Advanced High School Statistics''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cetinkaya-Rundel, Mine Living people American academics of Turkish descent New York University Stern School of Business alumni University of California, Los Angeles alumni American women statisticians Turkish statisticians Duke University faculty Fellows of the American Statistical Association R (programming language) people 1982 births 21st-century American mathematicians 21st-century American women mathematicians 21st-century American women scientists 21st-century American academics American statisticians Turkish women academics 21st-century Turkish mathematicians 21st-century Turkish women writers Women data scientists American data scientists Academics of the University of Edinburgh