Polly Feigl is an American biostatistician known for her work on survival distributions of patients with varying exponentially distributed survival rates, and on clinical trials for cancer. She is a professor emerita of biostatistics at the University of Washington. [1]
Feigl majored in mathematics at the University of Chicago, and has a master's degree and Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Minnesota. [1]
Feigl is the coauthor, with Johannes Ipsen, of Bancroft's Introduction to Biostatistics (2nd edition, Harper and Row, 1971), a revised edition of a widely used 1957 textbook by Huldah Bancroft. [2]
Fiegl was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1979. [3]
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.
Ann Dryden Witte is an American economist, known for her work on "a variety of interesting and eclectic problems" and as a "prolific author of books, monographs, and professional articles". She is a professor emerita of economics at Wellesley College, and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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).
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.
Nancy Robbins Mann is an American statistician known for her research on quality management, reliability estimation, and the Weibull distribution.
Sherman Kopald Stein is an American mathematician and an author of mathematics textbooks. He is a professor emeritus at the University of California, Davis. His writings have won the Lester R. Ford Award and the Beckenbach Book Prize.
Elizabeth Dore (1946-2022) was a professor of Latin American Studies, specialising in class, race, gender and ethnicity, with a focus on modern history. She was professor emerita of Modern Languages and Linguistics at the University of Southampton, and had a PhD from Columbia University.
Joan Weiner is an American philosopher and professor emerita of philosophy at Indiana University Bloomington, known for her books on Gottlob Frege.
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.
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.
Judith Veronica Field is a British historian of science with interests in mathematics and the impact of science in art, an honorary visiting research fellow in the Department of History of Art of Birkbeck, University of London, former president of the British Society for the History of Mathematics, and president of the Leonardo da Vinci Society.
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.
Linda Williams Pickle 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.
Erna Lesky was an Austrian pediatrician and historian of medicine. She was the first woman on the medical faculty of the University of Vienna, and was named as "one of the most illustrious medical historians of the twentieth century" by Owen Harding Wangensteen.
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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