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Linda Williams Pickle (born July 19, 1948) is an American statistician and expert in spatial analysis and data visualization, especially as applied to disease patterns. She worked as a researcher for the National Cancer Institute, for Georgetown University, and for the National Center for Health Statistics before becoming a statistics consultant and adjunct professor of geography and public health services at Pennsylvania State University. [1]
Pickle was born in Hampton Virginia but grew up in central Maryland. She attended Harford Community College and then transferred to Johns Hopkins University where she majored in quantitative studies. She graduated in their first co-educational class in 1974 with honors (Phi Beta Kappa), and then completed a Ph.D. in biostatistics at Johns Hopkins in 1977. [2]
She worked as a biostatistician at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) from 1977 to 1988, analyzing environmental epidemiology studies and producing the second generation of NCI cancer atlases that included modeled time trend maps. She then served as an adjunct assistant professor and research associate professor of community and family medicine at Georgetown University from 1983 to 1991, where she directed the biostatistics unit of the Vincent T. Lombardi Cancer Research Center from 1988 to 1991. [2]
She was a mathematical statistician at the National Center for Health Statistics from 1991 to 1999, and was project director for the center's Atlas of United States Mortality project which included cognitive research into how people read data from maps. She returned to the National Cancer Institute as a senior mathematical statistician from 1999 to 2007, before retiring to become owner and chief statistician of a consulting firm, StatNet Consulting. [2] While at NCI, she started their geographic information systems (GIS) program and developed statistical models to examine spatial patterns of cancer. Her model to predict the number of new cancer cases is used by the American Cancer Society for their annual cancer report.
Pickle is lead author of the books Atlas of U.S. Cancer Mortality Among Whites, 1950-1980 (National Cancer Institute, 1987), Atlas of U.S. Cancer Mortality Among Nonwhites, 1950-1980 (National Cancer Institute, 1990), Atlas of United States Mortality (National Center for Health Statistics, 1996) [3] and coauthor of Visualizing Data Patterns with Micromaps with Daniel B. Carr (Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2010). [4] In addition, she has published over 100 articles and numerous book chapters in the medical and statistical literature. Her work has been cited over 11,000 times.
Pickle's 1996 Atlas received the International Blue Pencil Award for Best Illustrated Book in 1997 from the National Association of Government Communicators and a CDC Health Communications Award the same year. In 1997 she also received the Elijah White Memorial Award from the National Center for Health Statistics. In 2006 she received the ESRI Vision Award for her pioneering work applying GIS to health. Pickle was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2000. [5]
Elizabeth Knight Dawson is a biostatistician and biostatistics textbook author.
Priscilla E. (Cindy) Greenwood is a Canadian mathematician who is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of British Columbia. She is known for her research in probability theory.
Ruth Rice Puffer was an American biostatistician who headed the Department of Health Statistics of the Pan American Health Organization, where she led the Inter-American Investigation of Childhood Mortality.
Yvonne Millicent Mahala Bishop was an English-born statistician who spent her working life in America. She wrote a "classic" book on multivariate statistics, and made important studies of the health effects of anesthetics and air pollution. Later in her career, she became the Director of the Office of Statistical Standards in the Energy Information Administration.
Gerda Claeskens is a Belgian statistician. She is a professor of statistics in the Faculty of Economics and Business at KU Leuven, associated with the KU Research Centre for Operations Research and Business Statistics (ORSTAT).
Wendy L. Martinez is an American statistician. She directs the Mathematical Statistics Research Center of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and is the coordinating editor of the journal Statistics Surveys. In 2018, Martinez was elected president of the American Statistical Association for the 2020 term.
Kathleen Rundle Lamborn is an American biostatistician, known for her highly-cited publications on glioma. She is an Adjunct Professor Emeritus of Neurological Surgery and former Director of the Cancer Center Biostatistics Core at the University of California, San Francisco, and Senior Scientific Consultant at Quintiles Pacific.
Carol Anne Gotway Crawford is an American mathematical statistician and from 2018 to 2020 served as Chief Statistician of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). She joined the GAO in May 2017. From August 2014 to April 2017, she was with the Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service. She was formerly at the National Center for Environmental Health of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She also holds an adjunct faculty position at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University, and is an expert in biostatistics, spatial analysis, environmental statistics, and the statistics of public health. She also maintains an interest in geoscience and has held executive roles in the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences.
Judith T. Lessler is an American statistician and expert on survey methodology, particularly on surveys relating to health and epidemiology.
Susan S. Ellenberg is an American statistician specializing in the design of clinical trials and in the safety of medical products. She is a professor of biostatistics, medical ethics and health policy in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She was the 1993 president of the Society for Clinical Trials and the 1999 President of the Eastern North American Region of the International Biometric Society.
Nancy Robbins Mann is an American statistician known for her research on quality management, reliability estimation, and the Weibull distribution.
Janet Turk Wittes is an American statistician known for her work on clinical trials.
Virginia Ann Clark was an American statistician, professor emeritus of biostatistics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the coauthor of several books on statistics.
Maura Ellen Stokes is an American statistician and novelist. She is a senior director of research and development for the SAS Institute, the co-author of the statistics book Categorical Data Analysis using SAS, and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. She is also the author of the early-teen novel Fadeaway, published by Simon & Schuster in 2018.
Patricia Louise Meller Grambsch is an American biostatistician known for her work on survival models including proportional hazards models. She is an associate professor emerita of biostatistics at the University of Minnesota.
Galit Shmueli is a data scientist who works in Taiwan as Tsing Hua Distinguished Professor at the Institute of Service Science, National Tsing Hua University. She is the author of many textbooks in business statistics and is known for her work on information quality, and on clarifying the difference between explanations and predictions in statistical analyses.
Lillian Rose (Lila) Elveback was an American biostatistician, a professor of biostatistics at the Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, a textbook author, a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, and a founder of the American College of Epidemiology.
Huldah Bancroft 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.
Ruth Mary Mickey is a retired American statistician known for her research on feature selection to control the effects of confounding on statistical inference, and on the applications of statistics to issues of public health and natural resources. She is a professor emerita in the University of Vermont Department of Mathematics & Statistics.
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