Nancy Kirkendall

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Nancy Jean Isner Kirkendall is an American government statistician, a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, and a past president of the Washington Statistical Society.

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Education and career

Kirkendall majored in mathematics at the Ohio State University, and continued at Ohio State for a master's degree in mathematics. [1] She received a Ph.D. in mathematical statistics at George Washington University in 1974. Her dissertation, Large Sample Finite Approximations in an Infinite Dimension Distributed Lag Regression Model, was supervised by Robert H. Shumway. [2]

She has worked at the United States Census Bureau, and for the Office of Management and Budget as a senior statistician in the Statistical Policy Branch of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. [3] She directed the Statistics and Methods Group of the Energy Information Administration, [1] [3] retiring in 2008, [1] before becoming a senior program officer in the Committee on National Statistics of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. [3]

She has chaired the Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology, and served as vice president of the American Statistical Association. [3] She was president of the Washington Statistical Society for 1987–1988. [4]

Recognition

Kirkendall was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1993. [5]

She was the 2000 recipient of the Founders Award of the American Statistical Association, [6] and the 2007 recipient of its Roger Herriot Award for Innovation in Federal Statistics. [7] [8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Committee on Energy Statistics (PDF), American Statistical Association, 2014, retrieved 2025-04-20
  2. ↑ Nancy Kirkendall at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. 1 2 3 4 Bock, Mary Ellen; Kirkendall, Nancy J., eds. (2017), "Chapter: Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff", Improving Crop Estimates by Integrating Multiple Data Sources, The National Academies Press, doi:10.17226/24892, ISBN   978-0-309-46529-8
  4. ↑ Brock, Dwight B. (2019), "Presidents of the WSS, 1926–", Washington Statistical Society History Through August, 2019 (PDF), Washington Statistical Society, pp. 12–13, retrieved 2025-04-20
  5. ↑ ASA Fellows, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2025-04-20
  6. ↑ Founders Award, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2025-04-20
  7. ↑ "Roger Herriot Award", Government Statistics Section, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2025-04-20
  8. ↑ Weinberg, Daniel H. (July 2007), "Dr. Nancy Kirkendall to Receive the 2007 Herriot Award for Innovation" (PDF), Government Statistics and Social Statistics Sections Newsletter, American Statistical Association, p. 4, retrieved 2025-04-20
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