Huldah Bancroft

Huldah Bancroft
Died	(1966-09-25)September 25, 1966
Alma mater	University of Michigan Columbia University Case Western Reserve (PhD)
Scientific career
Fields	Statistics
Institutions	Case Western Reserve University Tulane University

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.

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]

References

1. "Deaths", The Michigan Alumnus, vol. 63, no. 7, p. 30, March 1976
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, 76 (1 ed.): 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
   • 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
7. Reviews of Bancroft's Introduction to Biostatistics:
   • Grimshaw, J. J. (March 1972), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series D, 21 (1): 96–97, doi:10.2307/2986867, JSTOR   2986867
   • Hill, G. B. (October 9, 1971), "Statistics For medical students", The British Medical Journal, 4 (5779): 120, doi:10.1136/bmj.4.5779.120-b, JSTOR   25416195, PMC   2599140 , S2CID   52331534
   • Hills, Michael (1972), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C, 21 (2): 214–215, doi:10.2307/2346504, JSTOR   2346504
   • Simpson, J. A. (April 1971), Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, vol. 34 (2 ed.), p. 208, doi:10.1136/jnnp.34.2.208-a, PMC   493764