Julie M. Legler is an American biostatistician and statistics educator. She is a professor of statistics at St. Olaf College. [1]
Legler did her undergraduate studies at the University of Minnesota, and continued there for a master's degree. [2] As a doctoral student in biostatistics at Harvard University, she became one of the early recipients of the Gertrude Cox Scholarship of the American Statistical Association's Committee on Women in Statistics. [3] Her 1993 dissertation, supervised by Louise M. Ryan, was Statistical Analysis for Multiple Binary Outcomes: The Analysis of Birth Defects Data. [4]
After working for seven years in the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health, [2] she moved to St. Olaf, a small liberal arts college that attracted her with its enthusiastic students and low-pressure atmosphere. [5] At St. Olaf, she has directed the statistics program and headed the Center for Interdisciplinary Research, [1] a program that finds projects in other disciplines to which statistics students can contribute. [5] She has also directed the St. Olaf program for Collaborative Undergraduate Research and Inquiry. [2] Legler chaired the Joint Committee on Undergraduate Statistics of the American Statistical Association and Mathematical Association of America in 2009.
She is one of eight co-authors of the textbook STAT2: Building Models for a World of Data (Macmillan, 2013). [2]
In 2013, Legler was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. [6]
Gertrude Mary Cox was an American statistician and founder of the department of Experimental Statistics at North Carolina State University. She was later appointed director of both the Institute of Statistics of the Consolidated University of North Carolina and the Statistics Research Division of North Carolina State University. Her most important and influential research dealt with experimental design; In 1950 she published the book Experimental Designs, on the subject with W. G. Cochran, which became the major reference work on the design of experiments for statisticians for years afterwards. In 1949 Cox became the first woman elected into the International Statistical Institute and in 1956 was President of the American Statistical Association.
Nan McKenzie Laird is the Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of Public Health, Emerita in Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She served as Chair of the Department from 1990 to 1999. She was the Henry Pickering Walcott Professor of Biostatistics from 1991 to 1999. Laird is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, as well as the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. She is a member of the International Statistical Institute.
Xihong Lin is a Chinese–American statistician known for her contributions to mixed models, nonparametric and semiparametric regression, and statistical genetics and genomics. As of 2015, she is the Henry Pickering Walcott Professor and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Coordinating Director of the Program in Quantitative Genomics.
Louise Marie Ryan is an Australian biostatistician, a distinguished professor of statistics in the School of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney, president-elect of the International Biometric Society, and an editor-in-chief of the journal Statistics in Medicine. She is known for her work applying statistics to cancer and risk assessment in environmental health.
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Janet D. Elashoff is a retired American statistician, formerly the director of biostatistics for Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and professor of biomathematics at UCLA.
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