MaryAnn Hill

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MaryAnn H. Hill is a retired American statistical software developer who contributed to statistics packages including BMDP, SYSTAT, and SPSS. She also published fundamental research on robust statistics, [1] as well as contributing statistical analyses to several medical research publications.

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Career

In the 1970s, Hill worked for the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as a developer of the BMDP (Biomedical Data Processing) package, including developing robust regression and ridge regression methods for BMDP. [2] She was later also credited with writing most of the documentation of the BMDP system. [3]

In the 1980s, she was listed as a senior statistician in the UCLA biomathematics program, [4] also affiliated with the VA Medical Center in Los Angeles, [1] and later in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and as an employee of BMDP Statistical Software, Inc. [5] By the early 1990s, she was working in the department of statistics at the University of Michigan and at Systat Software Inc., [6] working on the SYSTAT statistics package. SYSTAT was sold in 1995 to SPSS, [7] and in 1997 she authored a manual on missing data for SPSS, Inc. [8] She was also listed as a senior statistician at NORC at the University of Chicago in 1997. [9]

Recognition

Hill was named as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1995. [10]

Personal life

Hill is the mother of biology professor Karlyn Mueller-Hill, who writes in her 1999 doctoral thesis that Hill's "idea of child day care was to bring [Karlyn] to her graduate classes in statistics". [11]

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References

  1. 1 2 Hill, MaryAnn; Dixon, W. J. (June 1982), "Robustness in Real Life: A Study of Clinical Laboratory Data", Biometrics, 38 (2), JSTOR: 377, doi:10.2307/2530452, JSTOR   2530452
  2. ↑ Simon, Charles W. (July 1975), "Computer programs for ridge regression analysis", Methods for Improving Information from "Undesigned" Human Factors Experiments (PDF), Hughes Aircraft, p. 57, retrieved 2024-04-14– via Education Resources Information Center
  3. ↑ Jennrich, Robert (June 2007), "History of statistical computing: BMDP and some statistical computing history", Statistical Computing & Graphics, 18 (1), Statistical Computing & Statistical Graphics Sections of the American Statistical Association: 17–23; see in particular p. 22
  4. ↑ "Biomathematics", UCLA Graduate Catalog, UCLA, 1981–1982, p. 99, retrieved 2024-04-14
  5. ↑ Author affiliations from Hill, MaryAnn (1986), "BMDPC: BMDP Statistics Software for Microcomputers", Psychopharmacology Bulletin, 22 (1): 301–306
  6. ↑ Author affiliations from Hill, MaryAnn; Engelman, Laszlo (1992), "Graphical Aids for Nonlinear Regression and Discriminant Analysis", in Dodge, Yadolah; Whittaker, Joe (eds.), Computational Statistics, Volume 2: Proceedings of the 10th Symposium on Computational Statistics, COMPSTAT, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, August 1992, Physica-Verlag HD, pp. 111–126, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-48678-4_13, ISBN   9783642486784
  7. ↑ Wilkinson, Leland, SYSTAT, University of Illinois, Chicago, retrieved 2024-04-14
  8. ↑ "Missing Value Analysis", Deakin University Library Catalog, retrieved 2024-04-14
  9. ↑ "NORC Senior Staff", NORC Annual Report (PDF), NORC, 1997, p. 5
  10. ↑ ASA Fellows, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2024-04-14
  11. ↑ Mueller-Hill, Karlyn Mcleod, Investigation of the mechanism of avian hepadnavirus DNA replication: Identification and characterization of cis-acting sequences and trans-acting factors for minus- and plus-strand DNA replication (PhD thesis), University of Wisconsin, ProQuest   304535736
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