Gertrude Mary Cox
Gertrude Mary Cox (born January 13, 1900 in Dayton (Iowa) , Webster County (Iowa) , † October 17, 1978 in Durham (North Carolina) ) was an American statistician , known for work on the design of experiments .
Cox initially wanted Deaconess the Methodists are attended courses in social work and was two years housemother for sixteen orphans, but came at Iowa State College in Ames required on the run there breeding research for agriculture, the statistical method to statistics. In 1931 she made her master's degree in statistics with George W. Snedecor on the statistical analysis of the success of school teachers measured against that of students. She deepened her studies in psychology at the University of California, Berkeley , but accepted an offer from her old teacher George Snedecor to work at the newly established statistics laboratory at Iowa State College. She published with Snedecor and supported him in his book on statistical experiment planning. In 1939 she became Assistant Research Professor for Statistics. In 1940 she became a professor and director of the newly established Department of Experimental Statistics in the Department of Agriculture at North Carolina State University at Raleigh.
Her book on experimental designs with William Cochran became a standard work.
She was the first woman to be admitted to the International Statistical Institute (1949) and from 1956 to 1959 president of the American Statistical Association , of which she had been a member since 1944 (as well as the Institute of Mathematical Statistics). 1945 to 1955 she was the editor of Biometrics and in 1947 she was a founding member of the Biometrics Society, of which she became an honorary member in 1964 and of which she was president in 1968/69. In 1954 she became an honorary member of the Societé Adolphe Quetelet in Brussels. In 1958 she was awarded an honorary doctorate from Iowa State College. In 1975 she was admitted to the National Academy of Sciences and in 1957 she became an honorary member of the Royal Statistical Society . In 1970, North Carolina State University's Cox Hall was named after her.
Her hobbies included batik and orchid growing.
literature
- Sharon Lohr: Gertrude M. Cox and Statistical Design, Notices AMS, March 2019
Fonts
- with William Cochran Experimental Designs , 1950, Wiley, 2nd edition 1996
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| SURNAME | Cox, Gertrude Mary |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American statistician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 13, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dayton, Iowa |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th October 1978 |
| Place of death | Durham, North Carolina |