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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] |
Statistics
Statistics (from German language, German: ''wikt:Statistik#German, Statistik'', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a scientific, industrial, or social problem, it is conventional to begin with a statistical population or a statistical model to be studied. Populations can be diverse groups of people or objects such as "all people living in a country" or "every atom composing a crystal". Statistics deals with every aspect of data, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of statistical survey, surveys and experimental design, experiments.Dodge, Y. (2006) ''The Oxford Dictionary of Statistical Terms'', Oxford University Press. When census data cannot be collected, statisticians collect data by developing specific experiment designs and survey sample (statistics), samples. Representative sampling as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svetlana Antonovska
Svetlana Antonovska (, April 6, 1952 – October 7, 2016) was a Macedonian statistician. She headed the State Statistical Office of the Republic of Macedonia North Macedonia, ; sq, Maqedonia e Veriut, (Macedonia before February 2019), officially the Republic of North Macedonia,, is a country in Southeast Europe. It gained independence in 1991 as one of the successor states of Yugoslavia. It ... from its founding in 1991 until 2001, brought the office into communication with several major international statistical organizations, and founded the first census of the republic. References 1952 births 2016 deaths Macedonian women in politics Macedonian sociologists Macedonian women scientists Women sociologists Women statisticians Demographers Macedonian statisticians {{NorthMacedonia-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen Bandeen-Roche
Karen Jean Bandeen-Roche is an American biostatistician known for her research on aging and aging-related frailty. She was the Hurley Dorrier Professor of Biostatistics and Chair of the Biostatistics Department at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health from 2008 to 2023. Education and career Bandeen-Roche studied mathematics at Andrews University, graduating in 1985. She earned a master's degree and PhD in operations research from Cornell University in 1988 and 1990 respectively. Her dissertation, supervised by David Ruppert, was ''A Receptor-Based Model for the Statistical Analysis of Air Pollution Data: Source Apportionment with One Source Unknown''. She has worked at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health since 1990, and became Hurley Dorrier Professor and chair in 2008. Awards and honors Bandeen-Roche has been a fellow of the American Statistical Association since 2001. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine The National Academy of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huldah Bancroft
Huldah Bancroft (died September 25, 1966) was an American biostatistician at Tulane University, known for her textbook on biostatistics and for her research on tropical infectious diseases including typhoid fever and leprosy. Education and career Bancroft graduated from the University of Michigan in 1915; she earned a master's degree at Columbia University and, in 1944, a Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University, where she had been working as an assistant professor of biometrics. In 1947 she moved from Case to Tulane University Tulane University, officially the Tulane University of Louisiana, is a private university, private research university in New Orleans, Louisiana. Founded as the Medical College of Louisiana in 1834 by seven young medical doctors, it turned into ..., where she was appointed as an associate professor in the newly founded Department of Tropical Diseases and Public Health. By 1961 she had retired. Book She published her book ''Introduction to Biostati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rose Baker
Rose Dawn Baker is a British physicist, mathematician, and statistician. She is a professor emeritus of applied statistics in the Salford Business School at the University of Salford. Education and career Baker read physics at the University of Cambridge, earned a master's degree there in 1968, and completed her Ph.D. in 1972. Her dissertation concerned bubble chambers. After a year in India as a lecturer in Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, she returned to England as a researcher at the Rutherford High Energy Laboratory in Chilton, Oxfordshire, where she worked from 1973 to 1977. At that time, as she writes, "funds began drying up in big physics", so she moved to the University of Salford, where she worked in computing services from 1977 to 1990. In 1990, she became a lecturer in the department of mathematics at Salford, and in 1998 she moved to statistics as a reader. She was given a personal chair in 2001, and retired in 2013. Recognition Baker is a fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Bailey-Wilson
Joan Ellen Bailey-Wilson (born 1953) is an American statistical geneticist. She is a senior investigator and co-chief of the Computational and Statistical Genomic Branch of the National Human Genome Research Institute. Education Bailey-Wilson received a B.A. magna cum laude in Biology from Western Maryland College followed by a Ph.D. in medical genetics with a minor in biomathematics from Indiana University School of Medicine in 1981 under the direction of Joe C. Christian. She completed post-doctoral training with Robert C. Elston, Robert Elston in the Department of Biometry and Genetics at Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans, Louisiana State University Medical Center. Career Bailey-Wilson became a professor at the Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans before joining the National Institutes of Health in 1995. She was appointed co-branch chief of the Inherited Disease Research Branch in 2006 and became co-chief of the Computational and Statistical Genomics Branc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosemary A
''Salvia rosmarinus'' (), commonly known as rosemary, is a shrub with fragrant, evergreen, needle-like leaves and white, pink, purple, or blue flowers, native plant, native to the Mediterranean Region, Mediterranean region. Until 2017, it was known by the scientific name ''Rosmarinus officinalis'' (), now a Synonym (taxonomy), synonym. It is a member of the sage family Lamiaceae, which includes many other medicinal and culinary herbs. The name "rosemary" derives from Latin ("dew of the sea"). Rosemary has a fibrous root system. Description Rosemary is an aromatic evergreen shrub with leaves similar to Tsuga, hemlock needles. It is native to the Mediterranean and Asia, but is reasonably hardy in cool climates. Special cultivars like 'Arp' can withstand winter temperatures down to about . It can withstand droughts, surviving a severe lack of water for lengthy periods. In some parts of the world, it is considered a potentially invasive species. The seeds are often difficult to s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara A
Barbara may refer to: People * Barbara (given name) * Barbara (painter) (1915–2002), pseudonym of Olga Biglieri, Italian futurist painter * Barbara (singer) (1930–1997), French singer * Barbara Popović (born 2000), also known mononymously as Barbara, Macedonian singer * Bárbara (footballer) (born 1988), Brazilian footballer Film and television * ''Barbara'' (1961 film), a West German film * ''Bárbara'' (film), a 1980 Argentine film * ''Barbara'' (1997 film), a Danish film directed by Nils Malmros, based on Jacobsen's novel * ''Barbara'' (2012 film), a German film * ''Barbara'' (2017 film), a French film * ''Barbara'' (TV series), a British sitcom Places * Barbara (Paris Métro), a metro station in Montrouge and Bagneux, France * Barbaria (region), or al-Barbara, an ancient region in Northeast Africa * Barbara, Arkansas, U.S. * Barbara, Gaza, a former Palestinian village near Gaza * Barbara, Marche, a town in Italy * Berbara, or al-Barbara, Lebanon * Berbara, Akkar D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anita K
Anita or ANITA may refer to: Arts * ''Anita'' (1967 film), an Indian film * ''Anita'' (2009 film), an Argentine film * ''Anita'' (2021 film), a Hong Kong film *'' Anita: Swedish Nymphet'', a 1973 erotic film People *Anita (given name), people with the given name Anita Places *Anita, Indiana, a former town in Johnson County, Indiana *Anita, Iowa, city in Cass County, Iowa *Anita, Pennsylvania *Batey Anita Airport, in Consuelo, Dominican Republic *Lake Anita State Park, state park in Cass County, Iowa, US *Santa Anita (other) Science and technology *''Amblypodia anita'', a species of blue butterfly *ANITA grade, a group of plants consisting of the most basal angiosperm lineages *Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna experiment *Sumlock ANITA calculator Storms *Hurricane Anita, an Atlantic hurricane in 1977 *Tropical Storm Anita (other) The name Anita has been used for thirteen tropical cyclones worldwide: one in the North Atlantic Ocean, one in the South ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie E
Julie may refer to: * Julie (given name), a list of people and fictional characters with the name Film and television * ''Julie'' (1956 film), an American film noir starring Doris Day * ''Julie'' (1975 film), a Hindi film by K. S. Sethumadhavan featuring Lakshmi * ''Julie'' (1998 film), a British public information film about seatbelt use * ''Julie'' (2004 film), a Hindi film starring Neha Dhupia * ''Julie'' (2006 film), a Kannada film starring Ramya * ''Julie'' (TV series), a 1992 American sitcom starring Julie Andrews Literature * ''Julie; or, The New Heloise'', a 1761 novel by Jean-Jacques Rousseau * ''Julie'' (George novel), a 1994 novel, the second book of a trilogy, by Jean Craighead George * ''Julie'', a 1985 novel by Cora Taylor Music * ''Julie'' (opera), a 2005 opera by Philippe Boesmans Albums * ''Julie'' (album), by Julie London, 1957 * ''Julie'' (EP) or the title song, by Jens Lekman, 2004 Songs * "Julie", by Doris Day Doris Day (born Doris Mary Kapp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Ashby
Deborah Ashby (née Davis; born 21 August 1959) is a British statistician and academic who specialises in medical statistics and Bayesian statistics. She is the Director of the School of Public Health and Chair in Medical Statistics and Clinical Trials at Imperial College London. She was previously a lecturer then a reader at the University of Liverpool and a professor at Queen Mary University of London. Early life Ashby was born Deborah Davis on 21 August 1959 in London, England. She was the only daughter of George Herbert Davis and Jean Davis (née Martin). She was educated at Southend High School for Girls, a grammar school in Southend-on-Sea, Essex. From 1977 to 1980, she studied mathematics at the University of Exeter and graduated with a first class honours Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree. From 1980 to 1981, she studied medical statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and graduated with a Master of Science (MSc) degree. From 1981 to 1983, sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jana Asher
Jana Lynn Asher is a statistician known for her work on human rights and sexual violence. She is an Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Slippery Rock University. She was a co-editor of the book ''Statistical Methods for Human Rights'' with David L. Banks and Fritz Scheuren. Asher volunteers for the American Statistical Association in several roles, including as the Program Chair for 2022 for its Section on Survey Research Methods. She was elected as the Council for Sections Representative to the ASA's Board of Directors for the 2023-25 term. Asher was appointed to be the Chair of the Committee on the History of Statistics of the International Statistical Institute. Education Asher majored in anthropology and Japanese studies at Wellesley College, graduating in 1991. She earned a master's degree (1999) and Ph.D. (2016) in statistics from Carnegie Mellon University. Her dissertation, ''Methodological Innovations in the Collection and Analysis of Human Rights ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
