Lori A. Thombs is an American statistician whose interests include social statistics, time series, and resampling.
[1] Her dissertation, Bootstrap Prediction Intervals for Autoregression, was supervised by William R.
[3][4] She joined the statistics department at the University of South Carolina, in Columbia, South Carolina, in 1985, and moved to the University of Missouri, in Columbia, Missouri, in 2003.
[2] Thombs is a coauthor, with Don Edwards and John D. Spurrier, of the books Elementary Statistics Laboratory Manual (in two versions, Wadsworth, 1995) and Statistics: Learning by Doing (Whittier, 1999).
She is a coeditor, with Stanislav Kolenikov and Douglas Steinle, of Statistics in the Social Sciences: Current Methodological Developments (Wiley, 2010).