Dalene Kay Stangl (born October 4, 1956) is an American statistician known for development and promotion of Bayesian statistical methods in health-related research.
She later attended graduate school at Carnegie Mellon University, she earned a second master's degree in statistics in 1988 and a Ph.D. in 1991.
[2] Stangl worked for 25 years as a faculty member at Duke University, beginning in 1992 and eventually becoming Professor of the Practice of Statistics and Public Policy and director of the Institute of Statistics and Decision Science.
[1][2] With Don Berry, Stangl has edited books on Bayesian methods in biostatistics[3] and on meta-analysis.
[5]In 2019, Stangl was presented with a Founders Award by the American Statistical Association.