[3] With Angel R. Martinez, she is the author of two books on MATLAB-based computational statistics and exploratory data analysis: Computational Statistics Handbook with MATLAB (CRC Press, 2002; 2nd ed., 2007; 3rd ed., 2015),[4] and Exploratory Data Analysis with MATLAB (CRC Press, 2004; 2nd ed., with Jeffrey Solka, 2010).
[5] Wendy Poston was an undergraduate at Cameron University, graduating in 1989 with a double major in mathematics and physics.
She earned a master's degree in aerospace engineering at George Washington University and the NASA Langley Research Center in 1991, and a Ph.D. in computational sciences and informatics, specializing in computational statistics, from George Mason University in 1995.
[6] Her dissertation, supervised by Edward Wegman, was Optimal Subset Selection Methods.
"[10] She was elected to the 2022 class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).