Ruth is the Senior Manager of Analytical Education for JMP. She develops curricula, teaches, and consults to help researchers and practitioners apply statistical methods and analytics to solving problems, predominantly in the health and life sciences.
Prior to joining JMP in 2016, she worked at the US Environmental Protection Agency as the statistical expert for the risk assessment of toxic chemicals, and she taught and consulted at the Pennsylvania State University and at the University of Florida.
Dr. Hummel is a co-author of Business Statistics and Analytics in Practice, 9th edition, a business statistics textbook emphasizing simple data mining techniques earlier in the standard curriculum, and JMP for Mixed Models, a practical guide on how to recognize and analyze data from experiments with sources of uncontrolled variation.
She has a PhD in statistics from the Pennsylvania State University.