Monica C. Jackson
{{Short description|American statistician and academic administrator}}
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Monica Christine Jackson is an American statistician and academic administrator, the deputy provost and dean of faculty at American University. Her research focuses on spatial statistics and disease monitoring.{{r|profile}}
Education and career
Jackson is African American, originally from Kansas City, Missouri,{{r|mgb}} and has two brothers, one her twin.{{r|amstat}} She loved mathematics from a very young age,{{r|mgb}} and after growing bored with the public school mathematics curriculum available to her, transferred in middle school to a more demanding program at a Catholic girls' school, Notre Dame de Sion.{{r|amstat}} She majored in mathematics at Clark Atlanta University, graduating in 1992, and continued there for a master's degree in 1994.{{r|cv}} She completed her Ph.D. in statistics in 2003 at the University of Maryland, College Park, with the dissertation Spatial Data Analysis for Discrete Data on a Lattice supervised by Estelle Russek-Cohen.{{r|mg}}
Postdoctoral research at Emory University led her to her focus on the spatial statistics of disease monitoring.{{r|amstat}} She joined American University as an assistant professor of statistics in 2005. She earned tenure there as an associate professor in 2011.{{r|cv}} After becoming a full professor, and associate dean of undergraduate studies, she was appointed as deputy provost and dean of faculty in 2021.{{r|dpdf}}
Selected publications
Jackson is a coauthor of the book Elementary Statistics: A Guide to Data Analysis Using R (Cognella, 2022, with Nancy Glenn-Griesinger and Daniel Vrinceanu).{{r|amstat}}
Her research articles include:
- {{citation
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| last2 = Huang | first2 = Lan
| last3 = Luo | first3 = Jun
| last4 = Hachey | first4 = Mark
| last5 = Feuer | first5 = Eric
| article-number = 55
| doi = 10.1186/1476-072x-8-55
| issue = 1
| journal = International Journal of Health Geographics
| publisher = Springer Science and Business Media LLC
| title = Comparison of tests for spatial heterogeneity on data with global clustering patterns and outliers
| volume = 8
| year = 2009| doi-access = free
| pmid = 19822013
| pmc = 2770045
}}
- {{citation
| last1 = Jackson | first1 = Monica C.
| last2 = Huang | first2 = Lan
| last3 = Xie | first3 = Qian
| last4 = Tiwari | first4 = Ram C.
| article-number = 33
| doi = 10.1186/1476-072x-9-33
| issue = 1
| journal = International Journal of Health Geographics
| title = A modified version of Moran's {{mvar|I}}
| volume = 9
| year = 2010| doi-access = free
| pmid = 20587045
| pmc = 2903534
}}
- {{citation
| last1 = Arab | first1 = Ali
| last2 = Jackson | first2 = Monica C.
| last3 = Kongoli | first3 = Cezar
| article-number = 126
| date = March 2014
| doi = 10.1186/1475-2875-13-126
| issue = 1
| journal = Malaria Journal
| title = Modelling the effects of weather and climate on malaria distributions in West Africa
| volume = 13| doi-access = free
| pmid = 24678602
| pmc = 3976358
}}
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Category:Clark Atlanta University alumni