Gary Grove Koch

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Gary Grove Koch
Born (1942-01-06) January 6, 1942 (age 80)
Education
Scientific career
Fields Biostatistics
Institutions University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Thesis The Design of Combinatorial Information Retrieval Systems for Files with Multiple-Valued Attributions (1968)
Doctoral advisor Raj Chandra Bose
Doctoral students

Gary Grove Koch (born January 6, 1942) [1] is an American biostatistician who serves as professor of biostatistics and director of the Biometric Consulting Laboratory at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he has been a faculty member since 1968. [2] In 1972, he was elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association, and in 1974, he received the Mortimer Spiegelman Award from the American Public Health Association. In 1996, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from DeMontfort University in the United Kingdom. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Gillings, Dennis B.; Preisser, John S. (May 2011). "Gary Grove Koch, Biostatistics Professor". Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research. 3 (2): 110–123. doi:10.1198/sbr.2011.KOCH. ISSN   1946-6315.
  2. "Gary Koch, PhD". UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Retrieved 2021-11-14.