Susan J. Devlin is an American statistician who has contributed to highly-cited research on

robust statistics Robust statistics are statistics with good performance for data drawn from a wide range of probability distributions, especially for distributions that are not normal. Robust statistical methods have been developed for many common problems, suc ...

and local regression.

Education and career

Devlin earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from

William Smith College William is a male given name of Germanic languages, Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norm ...

in 1968, and has a master's degree in statistics from

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's ...

. After completing her bachelor's degree, she began working for

Bell Labs Nokia Bell Labs, originally named Bell Telephone Laboratories (1925–1984), then AT&T Bell Laboratories (1984–1996) and Bell Labs Innovations (1996–2007), is an American industrial research and scientific development company owned by mult ...

, and completed her master's degree on a part-time basis while working there. After the 1984 breakup of the Bell system, she moved to Bellcore, and in 1987 her responsibilities at Bellcore shifted from research in statistics to its application in modeling client satisfaction with Bellcore's services. In 1997, she retired from Bellcore and became a founding principal of The Artemis Group, a New Jersey-based marketing consulting firm. After moving to

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she became president of the Thomaston Historical Society.

Service

Devlin chaired the Committee on Women in Statistics (CoWiS) of the American Statistical Association for 1984–1985. She was chair of the Statistical Consulting Section of the American Statistical Association for 2005.

Recognition

Devlin became a

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in 2005.

References

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