Katherine K. Wallman is an American statistician who was the
Chief Statistician of the United States
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from 1992 to 2017.
In that role at the
U.S. Office of Management and Budget
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, she provided coordination, guidance, and oversight for the
Federal Statistical System of the United States
The Federal Statistical System of the United States is the decentralized network of federal agencies which produce data and official statistics about the people, economy, natural resources, and infrastructure of the United States.
Background
In c ...
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In 1983 Wallman was elected as a
Fellow of the American Statistical Association
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She was the president of the
American Statistical Association
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in 1992, and Chairwoman of the
United Nations Statistical Commission
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in 2004-5.
[ She has made several appearances on ]C-SPAN
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Wallman organized efforts to pass and implement the 2002 CIPSEA
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CIPSEA establishes uniform confidentiality protections for info ...
law which standardized confidentiality-protection and information-sharing by U.S. federal government statistical agencies.CIPSEA at 15 Years: Benefits to Federal Statistics—A Seminar in Honor of Katherine K. Wallman
at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
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Works
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See also
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List of presidents of the American Statistical Association
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American statisticians
Women statisticians
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Presidents of the American Statistical Association
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
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