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Caucus For Women In Statistics
The Caucus for Women in Statistics is a professional society for women in statistics. It was founded in 1971, following discussions in 1969 and 1970 at the annual meetings of the American Statistical Association, with Donna Brogan as its first president. The Governing Council is the main governing body of the Caucus. The Council consists of the President, President-Elect, Past President, Past Past President, Executive Director (ex-officio), Treasurer, Secretary, Membership Chair, Program Committee Chair, Communications Committee Chair, Professional Development Committee Chair, Chair of Liaisons with other organizations and the Chair of Country Representatives. The President-Elect, President, Past President, Secretary, and Treasurer constitute the Executive Committee of the Governing Council. Caucus governance is described in thConstitution and Bylaws Purpose The purpose of the Caucus is to assist in teaching, hiring, and advancing the careers of women in statistics, removing bar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Women In Statistics
This is a list of women who have made noteworthy contributions to or achievements in statistics.. A * Helen Abbey (1915–2001), American biostatistician known for prolific mentorship of students * Edith Abbott (1876–1957), American economist, social worker, educator, and author * Sarah Abramowitz (born 1967), American statistics educator and textbook author * Dorothy Adkins (1912–1975), psychologist concentrating on psychometrics * Susan Ahmed (born 1946), American biostatistician and educational statistician * Laura Ahtime, chief executive of the Seychelles National Bureau of Statistics * Beatrice Aitchison (1908–1997), transportation economist who became the top woman in the United States Postal Service * Martha Aliaga (1937–2011), Argentine statistics educator and president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics * Betty Allan (1905–1952), Australian statistician and biometrician, first statistician at CSIRO * Genevera Allen, American statistician, expert on interpreta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Gordon
Nancy May Gordon is an American economist and statistician who works for the United States Census Bureau. Education and career Gordon majored in economics and statistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and earned a doctorate in economics from Stanford University. Her dissertation, ''Ex ante and Ex post Substitutability in Economic Growth'', was supervised by Kenneth Arrow. After completing her Ph.D., she became a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University from 1970 to 1974, and then a senior research associate at the Urban Institute. She began working for president Jimmy Carter in 1979, as a senior advisor and executive director of the Presidential Task Force on Women. From 1980 to 1995 she worked in the Congressional Budget Office as a senior economist and assistant director for health and human resources. Since 1995 she has worked at the United States Census Bureau. From 1995 until 2005 she worked on household surveys as associate director for demographic programs. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martha Aliaga
Martha Beatriz Bilotti-Aliaga (1937 – October 15, 2011) was an Argentine statistics educator, who served as the president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics. Early life and education Martha Beatriz Bilotti was born in Mendoza, Argentina, and did her undergraduate studies at the University of Buenos Aires. She earned a master's degree in Santiago, Chile, at the Inter-American Center for the Teaching of Statistics. She completed a doctorate in statistics at the University of Michigan in 1986; her dissertation, supervised by Michael B. Woodroofe, was ''A problem in sequential analysis''. Personal life She married Alfredo Aliaga of Columbia, Maryland and they had three children: Viviana, Pablo and Eduardo. Career After teaching in the Dominican Republic, she moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan to become an associate professor at the University of Michigan in 1972. She taught from 1981 to 1985 at American University, and in the late 1980s at both the University of the District of Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mari Palta
Mari Soekõrv Palta is a Swedish-Estonian biostatistician, known for her research on model specification in longitudinal studies, especially in epidemiologic studies of diabetes, sequelae of prematurity and sleep. She is a professor emerita in the Department of Population Health Sciences and the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She served as vice-chair of Population Health Sciences, and director of graduate studies 2016-2018. She is the author of ''Quantitative Methods in Population Health: Extensions of Ordinary Regression'' (Wiley, 2003). Palta's parents fled Estonia at the time of the Soviet occupation in September 1944 and both worked as physicians, first in Estonia and then in Sweden. Palta was born and grew up mostly in the southern province of Småland, Sweden. She studied mathematics, physics, and English at Lund University. After earning a master's degree in mathematics at the University of Minnesota, she remaine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Margosches
Elizabeth Helen Margosches is an American statistician who worked on risk assessment for the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Education and career Margosches graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1969. After earning a master's degree at Rutgers University, she earned a second master's degree in public health at the University of Michigan in 1975. She completed her Ph.D. in biostatistics at Michigan in 1980; her dissertation was ''Nonparametric Tolerance Intervals For Sequential Monitoring''. She joined the Environmental Protection Agency in 1980, after completing her doctorate. Service Margosches was president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics for the 1998 term, and chaired the Committee on Women in Statistics of the American Statistical Association in 2005. Recognition In 2007, Margosches was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association Like many other academic professional societies, the American Statistical Association (ASA) uses the title of Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandra Stinnett
Sandra Sue Stinnett is an American statistician specializing in the biostatistics of ophthalmology. She is an associate professor in the departments of biostatistics and bioinformatics and of ophthalmology in the Duke University School of Medicine. Education and career Stinnett majored in psychology at the University of Houston. After graduating in 1970, she began taking mathematics courses at the university (a topic not covered in her degree program) in order to improve her employment prospects. At the same time, she began learning the Spanish language. In 1973, she began a master's program in biometry at the University of Texas School of Public Health. Her research in the program involved traveling to Panama to study the blood pressure of Afro-Panamanian people. She earned a master's degree in 1977, with a thesis on ''Regression to the mean in sequential measurement of blood pressure''. Afterwards she stayed at the school as an epidemiologist. In 1981, Stinnett moved to North C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Batcher
Mary Katherine Batcher is an American statistician who chairs the National Institute of Statistical Sciences. Education and career Batcher earned bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees at the University of Maryland, College Park. She worked as a statistician in the National Center for Education Statistics, and became Chief of Statistical Support in the Statistics of Income Division of the Internal Revenue Service. She worked for 18 years at Ernst & Young before retiring. At Ernst & Young, she worked on tax applications of statistical sampling, and became executive director of quantitative economics and statistics. She joined the board of trustees of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences in 2013, and became chair in 2015. She is also the founder of consulting firm BDS Data Analytics. Recognition In 2003, Batcher was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. She is also an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute. In 2012 she won the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juliet Popper Shaffer
Juliet Popper Shaffer (born May 23, 1932) is an American psychologist, statistician and statistics education, statistics educator known for her research on Multiple comparisons problem, multiple hypothesis testing. She is a teaching professor emerita at the University of California, Berkeley. Education and career Juliet Martha Popper was born in Brooklyn, and took four years of mathematics at Midwood High School in Brooklyn, a curriculum that was at that time intended only for boys. She did her undergraduate studies at Swarthmore College, following the lead of classmate Arthur Mattuck, and despite the anti-women and anti-Jewish admission quotas then in place at Swarthmore. After several changes of topic she ended up majoring in psychology and minoring in mathematics and philosophy. She graduated in 1953, married a classmate, and moved to Stanford University for graduate study in psychology. Her marriage broke up during her studies, but she completed her Ph.D. in psychology at in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Tilley
Barbara C. Tilley is an American biostatistician. Early life Tilley was born in San Rafael, California. Education Tilley graduated from California State University, Northridge in 1972. She earned a master's degree in biomathematics at the University of Washington in 1975, and completed her Ph.D. at the University of Texas School of Public Health in 1981. Career Tilley became an adjunct faculty member at the University of Michigan in 1984, and worked at the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, Michigan, from 1983 to 1999. She became a professor at Case Western Reserve University in 1998, and in 1999, moved to the Medical University of South Carolina as chair of the Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Epidemiology. She returned to the University of Texas School of Public Health in 2009, as Lorne D. Bain Distinguished Professor and head of the Division of Biostatistics. She is a Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the Medical University of South Carolina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephanie Shipp
Stephanie Slepicka Shipp is an American economist and social statistician. She works at the University of Virginia as a research professor in the Social and Decision Analytics Division of the Biocomplexity Institute and Initiative. Education and career Shipp's parents were both Air Force officers, and her mother was a high school teacher and government librarian. Shipp graduated from Trinity College, Washington DC in 1974, and earned a master's degree at George Washington University in 1977. She completed her Ph.D. in economics at George Washington University in 2000. She worked as a research assistant at the Federal Reserve Board from 1974 to 1976, and at the Bureau of Labor Statistics from 1976 to 1997. At the Bureau of Labor Statistics, she became chief of the Branch of Information and Analysis in the Division of Consumer Expenditure Surveys in 1983. From 1997 to 2000 she worked as an assistant division chief for the Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division of the Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyntha Struthers
Cyntha Anne Struthers (born 1953 or 1954) is a Canadian mathematical statistician whose research topics include missing data in longitudinal studies A longitudinal study (or longitudinal survey, or panel study) is a research design that involves repeated observations of the same variables (e.g., people) over short or long periods of time (i.e., uses longitudinal data). It is often a type of obs ... and proportional hazards models. She is an associate professor of statistics and actuarial science at the University of Waterloo, and the former president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics. Education and career After earning a bachelor's degree in mathematics, and a master's degree in statistics in 1977 from the University of Waterloo, Struthers took a teaching position in mathematics at the university before gaining the confidence to return to doctoral study. She completed her Ph.D. in statistics at Waterloo in 1985); her doctoral dissertation, ''Asymptotic properties of linear ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sue Leurgans
Sue Ellen Leurgans is a biostatistician known for her work on disorders of human movement, including those caused by occupational injury and Parkinson's disease. She is a professor of neurological sciences at the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Leurgans graduated in statistics from Princeton University, and earned her Ph.D. in statistics in 1978 from Stanford University. Her dissertation, ''Asymptotic Distribution Theory in Generalized Isotonic Regression'', was supervised by Thomas W. Sager. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington. and is currently working on biostatistics. Leurgans is one of the authors of the 2007 revision of the Unified Parkinson's disease rating scale. She was president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics in 1990. She is married to physicist Cosmas Zachos Cosmas K. Zachos ( el, Κοσμάς Ζάχος; born 1951) is a theoretical physicist. He was educated in physics (undergraduate A.B. 1974) at Princeton Universit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
