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Statistical Inference via Data Science: A ModernDive into R and the Tidyverse
(Second Edition)

ModernDive

About the authors

Chester Ismay Albert Y. Kim Arturo Valdivia

Chester Ismay is Vice President of Data and Automation at MATE Seminars and is a freelance data science consultant and instructor. He also teaches in the Center for Executive and Professional Education at Portland State University. He completed his PhD in statistics from Arizona State University in 2013. He has previously worked in a variety of roles including as an actuary at Scottsdale Insurance Company (now Nationwide E&S/Specialty) and at Ripon College, Reed College, and Pacific University. He has experience working in online education and was previously a Data Science Evangelist at DataRobot, where he led data science, machine learning, and data engineering in-person and virtual workshops for DataRobot University. In addition to his work for ModernDive, he also contributed as initial developer of the infer R package and is author and maintainer of the thesisdown R package.

Albert Y. Kim is an Associate Professor of Statistical & Data Sciences at Smith College in Northampton, MA, USA. He completed his PhD in statistics at the University of Washington in 2011. Previously he worked in the Search Ads Metrics Team at Google Inc. as well as at Reed, Middlebury, and Amherst Colleges. In addition to his work for ModernDive, he is a co-author of the resampledata and SpatialEpi R packages. Both Dr. Kim and Dr. Ismay, along with Jennifer Chunn, are co-authors of the fivethirtyeight package of code and datasets published by the data journalism website FiveThirtyEight.com.

Arturo Valdivia is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Statistics at Indiana University, Bloomington. He earned his PhD in Statistics from Arizona State University in 2013. His research interests focus on statistical education, exploring innovative approaches to help students grasp complex ideas with clarity. Over his career, he has taught a wide range of statistics courses, from introductory to advanced levels, to more than 1,800 undergraduate students and over 900 graduate students pursuing master’s and Ph.D. programs in statistics, data science, and other disciplines. In recognition of his teaching excellence, he received Indiana University’s Trustees Teaching Award in 2023.