Polly Feigl

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Polly Feigl is an American biostatistician known for her work on survival distributions of patients with varying exponentially distributed survival rates and on cancer clinical trials. She is a professor emerita of biostatistics at the University of Washington. [1]

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Education and career

Feigl majored in mathematics at the University of Chicago and earned a master's degree and Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Minnesota. [1]

Book

Feigl is the coauthor, with Johannes Ipsen, of Bancroft's Introduction to Biostatistics (2nd edition, Harper and Row, 1971), a revised edition of the widely used 1957 textbook by Huldah Bancroft. [2]

Recognition

Feigl was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1979. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 Polly Feigl, University of Washington Biostatistics, retrieved 2021-01-03
  2. ↑ Reviews of Bancroft's Introduction to Biostatistics:
  3. ↑ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, archived from the original on 2020-05-21, retrieved 2021-01-03
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