Huldah Bancroft

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Huldah Bancroft
Died(1966-09-25)September 25, 1966
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Huldah Bancroft (died September 25, 1966) [1] 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.

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Education and career

Bancroft graduated from the University of Michigan in 1915; [2] she earned a master's degree at Columbia University and, in 1944, a Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University, [3] where she had been working as an assistant professor of biometrics. In 1947 she moved from Case to Tulane University, [4] where she was appointed as an associate professor in the newly founded Department of Tropical Diseases and Public Health. [2] By 1961 she had retired. [5]

Book

She published her book Introduction to Biostatistics with Harper & Row in 1957. [6] A second edition, revised by Johannes Ipsen and Polly Feigl, was published as Bancroft's Introduction to Biostatistics in 1971. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "Deaths", The Michigan Alumnus, vol. 63, no. 7, p. 30, March 1976
  2. 1 2 "News by classes", The Michigan Alumnus, vol. 54, p. 133, November 15, 1947
  3. ↑ Commencement, Case Western Reserve University, 1944 – via Docplayer.net
  4. ↑ "News about Members", The American Statistician, 1 (2): 15–16, October 1947, doi:10.1080/00031305.1947.10501554
  5. ↑ Fisher, Jr., Edgar J. (January 1961), "Public Health Reports", Public Health Reports (1 ed.), 76: 73–77, PMC   1929591 , PMID   13699946, Dr. Huldah Bancroft, biostatistician, retired from Tulane Medical School, analyzed the data and prepared the report for publication
  6. ↑ Reviews of Introduction to Biostatistics:
    • The Quarterly Review of Biology, 34 (4): 339, December 1959, JSTOR   2815926 {{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Brožek, Josef (December 1958), "Book notices", Human Biology, 30 (4): 352–356, JSTOR   41449219
    • Lerner, Monroe (March 1958), "Introduction to Biostatistics", American Journal of Public Health and the Nation's Health, 48 (3): 399, doi:10.2105/ajph.48.3.399-a
    • A.J.R. (May 1958), "Review", South African Medical Journal: 531
    • Weiss, Francis Joseph (October 10, 1958), Science, New Series, 128 (3328): 835, doi:10.1126/science.128.3328.832, JSTOR   1754925 {{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  7. ↑ Reviews of Bancroft's Introduction to Biostatistics:
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