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Susan Mae Wolofski Ahmed (born 1946) [1] is an American statistician. After early work in biostatistics, she became chief mathematical statistician in the National Center for Education Statistics and president of the Washington Statistical Society.

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Education and career

Susan Wolofski graduated in 1968 from Kalamazoo College, majoring in mathematics with an honors thesis concerning game theory. [2] She earned a master's degree in public health in 1970 from the University of Michigan. [3] In 1975, as Susan Wolofski Ahmed, she completed a Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with the dissertation Discriminant Analysis when the Initial Samples Are Contaminated supervised by Peter Lachenbruch. [4]

In the 1980s, Ahmed performed biostatistics research, affiliated with the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology of the Georgetown University School of Medicine, including highly cited work on how inflammatory bowel disease and its treatment can affect pregnancy outcomes. [5] By the 1990s, she had shifted to government and policy applications of statistics, as chief mathematical statistician in the Statistical Standards and Services Group of the National Center for Education Statistics. [6] After retiring from the government, she was named a senior fellow for statistical services at Mathematica Policy Research in 2006. [7]

Service and recognition

Ahmed was president of the Washington Statistical Society for the 1994–1995 term. [8] In 1995, she was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ Birth year from WorldCat Identities, retrieved 2021-11-14
  2. ↑ Wolofski, Susan Mae (1968), Introduction to the Theory of Games: Finite Zero-Sum Two Person Games (honors thesis), Kalamazoo College, hdl:10920/16019
  3. ↑ "Master of Public Health", Proceedings of the Regents of the University of Michigan, May 1970, pp. 488–489
  4. ↑ Susan Ahmed at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ↑ Mogadam, Michael; Dobbins, William O.; Korelitz, Burton I.; Ahmed, Susan W. (January 1981), "Pregnancy in inflammatory bowel disease: Effect of sulfasalazine and corticosteroids on fetal outcome", Gastroenterology, 80 (1): 72–76, doi: 10.1016/0016-5085(81)90193-1
  6. ↑ Ahmed, Susan (1997), Statistics for Policymakers or Everything You Wanted To Know about Statistics but Thought You Could Never Understand (PDF), NCES-WP-97-21
  7. ↑ "Appointments", The Washington Post, 25 September 2006
  8. ↑ Brock, Dwight B. (2019), "Presidents of the WSS, 1926–", Washington Statistical Society History Through August, 2019 (PDF), Washington Statistical Society, pp. 12–13
  9. ↑ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2021-11-14
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