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 Coursera. She is the chair-elect of the Statistical Education Section of the American Statistical Association. 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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, 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

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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 American Statistical Association (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

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