Roxy Lynn Peck is a statistics educator. She is a

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(Cal Poly); she was chair of statistics at Cal Poly for six years and associate dean for thirteen more. Peck grew up moving frequently as the daughter of a journalist, and was the first college-educated member of her family. She did her undergraduate studies in social science at the

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in the 1960s, and was inspired to move into statistics by Florence Nightingale David, the instructor for one of her classes there. After graduating and working for two years as a legal benefits counselor, she returned to UC Riverside where she completed a Ph.D. in applied statistics. She participated in an effort by the

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in 2000 to push statistics into

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education, and was chief reader for AP Statistics from 1999 to 2003. She has also written introductory statistics textbooks and edited a volume of statistical case studies. In 1998, Peck was elected as a

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; she is also a member of the

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. The American Statistical Association gave her their Founder's Award, and the United States Conference On Teaching Statistics gave her their lifetime achievement award.

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