Lynda Carlson

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Lynda Shirley Tepfer Carlson [1] (born 1943) [2] is a retired American statistician, formerly the director of the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics of the National Science Foundation. [3] As director of the center, she led an effort to collect information about college education by including this topic in the American Community Survey of the United States Census Bureau. [4] [5]

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Education and career

Carlson is a 1965 graduate of Brooklyn College, [1] and earned a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1974. Her dissertation was The Closing of the Brooklyn Navy Yard: A Case Study in Group Politics. [6] She worked in the United States Department of Energy, becoming director of the Statistics and Methods Group in the Energy Information Administration, before moving to the National Science Foundation as director of the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics in 2000. [3] [4] She retired in 2012. [7]

Recognition

Carlson was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2000, [8] and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2011. [9] She was the 2009 winner of the Roger Herriot Award for Innovation in Federal Statistics, given jointly by the Social Statistics and Government Statistics Sections of the American Statistical Association and by the Washington Statistical Society. [10] She is also a recipient of the Presidential Meritorious Rank Award. [3]

Personal life

Carlson is married to George N. Carlson, an economist who also served the US government as director of the Office of Tax Analysis in the United States Department of the Treasury. [11] They met as graduate students in the library of the University of Illinois, where they had adjacent study carrels. [12]

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  2. ↑ Birth year from WorldCat Identities, accessed 2021-04-07
  3. 1 2 3 "Appendix B: Biographic Information of the Committee on Strengthening the US Environmental Protection Agency Laboratory Enterprise", Rethinking the Components, Coordination, and Management of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Laboratories, National Academies Press, 2014
  4. 1 2 "Meet NCSES Director Lynda Carlson", Amstat News, American Statistical Association, 1 November 2011
  5. ↑ Mervis, Jeffrey (13 November 2014), "Can Question No. 12 survive? Researchers fight to retain a question about college degrees on American Community Survey", Science
  6. ↑ Stobo, J., Navy Yard Bibliography, Columbia University, retrieved 2021-04-07
  7. ↑ Pierson, Steve (30 January 2015), Former Federal Statistical Agency Heads Urge Stronger NCES as Senate Panel Advances Bill to Weaken It, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2021-04-07
  8. ↑ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2021-04-07
  9. ↑ AAAS Members Elected as Fellows, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 28 January 2011, retrieved 2021-04-07
  10. ↑ Roger Herriot Award, ASA Social Statistics Section, retrieved 2021-04-07
  11. ↑ Johns, Nicole (7 February 2014), 2014 Economics Distinguished Alumnus: Dr. George N. Carlson, BA '64, University of Washington Department of Economics
  12. ↑ Lefebvre, Madeleine (2005), The Romance of Libraries, Scarecrow Press, p. 8, ISBN   9781461707141
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