Mary Ellen Bock

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Mary Ellen Johnston Bock is a retired American statistician, now a professor emeritus at Purdue University[1] after becoming the first female full professor of statistics and the first female chair of the department there.[2] She was president of the American Statistical Association in 2007.[3]

Education and career

As an undergraduate at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Bock earned a bachelor's degree in the German language in 1967.[1] She switched to mathematics for her graduate studies at the same university, completing her PhD in 1974 under the supervision of Robert B. Ash with a dissertation on Certain Minimax Estimators of the Mean of a Multivariate Normal Distribution.[1][4][5]

As chair of statistics at Purdue from 1995 to 2010, Bock led the department through a period of growth, and took a multidisciplinary approach to the subject that included computational statistics as well as application areas including biostatistics, statistical finance, and environmental statistics.[2]

Awards and honors

Bock is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,[1] and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.[6] She won the American Statistical Association Founders Award in 2013.[1]

References

  1. 12345"Mary Ellen Bock", Faculty Directory, Purdue University Department of Statistics, retrieved 2017-10-14
  2. 12Srivastava, Sanvesh; Doerge, Rebecca W. (2012), "Purdue Statistics: A Journey Through Time", in Agresti, Alan; Meng, Xiao-Li (eds.), Strength in Numbers: The Rising of Academic Statistics Departments in the U. S., Springer, pp. 229–242, doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-3649-2_17, ISBN 9781461436492. See in particular "Mary Ellen Bock's Era: Adapting to the Changing Times (1995–2010)", pp. 235–238.
  3. ↑ بيرسون، ويلي؛ فريل، ليزا م.؛ ماكنيللي، كوني ل.، محرران (2015)، النهوض بالمرأة في العلوم: منظور دولي ، سبرينغر، ص 209، ISBN  9783319086293
  4. ↑ ماري إلين بوك في مشروع علم الأنساب الرياضي
  5. ↑ إم إي بوك (يناير 1975). "مُقدِّرات المينيماكس لمتوسط ​​التوزيع الطبيعي متعدد المتغيرات" . حوليات الإحصاء . 3 (1): 209-218 . doi : 10.1214/aos/1176343009 .
  6. ↑ الزملاء المكرمون ، معهد الإحصاء الرياضي ، تم الاطلاع عليه بتاريخ 27-10-2018