Stacey Hancock

Education

  • Ph.D. (Statistics), Department of Statistics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO (2008)

  • M.S. (Statistics), Department of Mathematical Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT (2004)

  • B.A. (Mathematics and Music), Concordia College, Moorhead, MN (2001)

Research and Projects

"Far better an approximate answer to the right question, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise." John Tukey

My primary research interests lie in statistics and data science education. Research projects in this area include: how students use metaphors and metonymies when learning statistical concepts related to sampling distributions and informal statistical inference, how learning and attitudes towards statistics are affected by one's peers in a flipped-format classroom, and developing and defining data science curricula at the undergraduate and graduate level. I am also involved in the MSU Storytelling Group, an NSF grant to bring computer science to rural and American Indian middle school students in Montana through storytelling. Additional research areas include time series analysis, specifically, change-point detection, and statistical applications in ecology.

Recent Activities

  • Hancock, S. and Schmidt, J. 1st place winner of eCOTS 2020 Dollar Street Contest. Dollar Street Activity
  • Hancock, S. What's the Big Deal with Big Data? MSU Wonderlust Side Trip, Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, MT, September 2019.
  • Hancock, S. and Millman, D. Bringing Data Science to Rural and Native American Communities in Montana. Invited lightning talk at the 2019 National Workshop on Data Science Education, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, June 2019.

  • "Six Ways to Integrate GAISE into Your Introductory Statistics Course" invited presentation, Montana ActiveStatistics Conference, Carroll College, Helena, MT, June 2018.

Selected Publications

Teaching

"The test of a good teacher is not how many questions she can ask her pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions she inspires them to ask her which she finds it hard to answer." Alice Wellington Rollins

Spring 2023 Office Hours

Spring 2023 Courses

Past Courses