Jill A. Dever is an American statistician specializing in

survey methodology Survey methodology is "the study of survey methods". As a field of applied statistics concentrating on human-research surveys, survey methodology studies the sampling of individual units from a population and associated techniques of survey da ...

who works as a senior researcher and senior director in the division for statistical & data sciences at

RTI International Research Triangle Institute, trading as RTI International, is a nonprofit organization headquartered in the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina. RTI provides research and technical services. It was founded in 1958 with $500,000 in funding f ...

Education

Dever is a graduate of the

University of Louisville The University of Louisville (UofL) is a public research university in Louisville, Kentucky. It is part of the Kentucky state university system. When founded in 1798, it was the first city-owned public university in the United States and one of ...

. Majoring in mathematics there, she was encouraged by a faculty member, Steven Seif, to continue in statistics. She earned a master's degree in

biostatistics Biostatistics (also known as biometry) are the development and application of statistical methods to a wide range of topics in biology. It encompasses the design of biological experiments, the collection and analysis of data from those experime ...

from the

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States ...

, and completed her Ph.D. in survey methodology at the

University of Maryland, College Park The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of Mary ...

. Her 2008 dissertation, ''Sampling Weight Calibration with Estimated Control Totals'', was supervised by Richard Valliant.

Book

With Richard Valliant and

Frauke Kreuter Frauke Kreuter is a German sociologist and statistician. She is a professor of the Joint Program in Survey Methodology (JPSM) of the University of Maryland, College Park and a professor in statistics and data science at the Ludwig Maximilian Uni ...

, Dever is a co-author of the book ''Practical Tools for Designing and Weighting Survey Samples'' (Springer, Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2013; 2nd ed., 2018).

Recognition

In 2015 Dever 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 Fellow of the American Statistical Association as its highest honorary grade of membership. The number of new fellows per year is limited ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dever, Jill Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American statisticians Women statisticians University of Louisville alumni UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health alumni University of Maryland, College Park alumni Fellows of the American Statistical Association