Jill Dever

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Jill A. Dever is an American statistician specializing in survey methodology who works as a senior researcher and senior director in the division for statistical & data sciences at RTI International. [1]

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Education

Dever is a graduate of the University of Louisville. [1] Majoring in mathematics there, she was encouraged by a faculty member, Steven Seif, to continue in statistics. [2] She earned a master's degree in biostatistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, [1] [2] and completed her Ph.D. in survey methodology at the University of Maryland, College Park. [1] Her 2008 dissertation, Sampling Weight Calibration with Estimated Control Totals, was supervised by Richard Valliant. [3]

Book

With Richard Valliant and Frauke Kreuter, Dever is a co-author of the book Practical Tools for Designing and Weighting Survey Samples (Springer, Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2013; 2nd ed., 2018). [4]

Recognition

In 2015 Dever was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Jill Dever", Experts, RTI International, March 26, 2016, retrieved 2020-04-09
  2. 1 2 "Interview with Jill A. Dever, Statistics Program Director at RTI International", This is Statistics, American Statistical Association, October 6, 2015, retrieved 2020-04-09
  3. ↑ Jill Dever at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ↑ Reviews of Practical Tools for Designing and Weighting Survey Samples:
  5. ↑ Fellows, ASA Survey Research Methods Section, retrieved 2020-04-09
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