Gertrude Cox:
Gertrude Mary Cox (of
Experimental Statistics at North Carolina State University. She was later
appointed director of both the Institute of Statistics of 1900 - 1978) was an
influential American statistician and founder of the department the
Consolidated University of North Carolina and the Statistics Research Division
of North Carolina State University. Her most important and influential research
dealt with experimental design; she wrote an important book on the subject with
W. G. Cochran. In 1949 Cox became the first female elected into the
International Statistical Institute and in 1956 she was president of the
American Statistical Association. From 1931 to 1933 Cox undertook graduate
studies in statistics at the University
of California at Berkeley, then returned to Iowa State
College as assistant in the Statistical Laboratory. Here she worked on
the design of experiments.
In 1939 she was appointed assistant professor of statistics at Iowa State.
In 1940 Cox
was appointed professor of statistics at North Carolina State
University at Raleigh. There she headed the new department of
Experimental Statistics.
In 1945 she
became director of the Institute of Statistics of the Consolidated University of North
Carolina, and the Statistics Research Division of the North Carolina
State College which was run by William Gemmell Cochran. In the same year of 1945 Cox became
the editor of Biometrics Bulletin and of Biometrics and she held this editorship for
10 years. In 1947 she was a founder member of the International Biometric
Society.
In 1950 she
published a joint work with Cochran, Experimental Design, which
quickly became a classic text.
In 1960 she
took up her final post as Director of Statistics at the Research Triangle Institute in
Durham, North Carolina. She held this post until she retired in 1964.
Cox received
many honours. In 1949 she became the first woman elected into the International Statistical
Institute. In 1956 she was elected President of the American Statistical
Association while in 1975 she was elected to the National Academy of
Sciences.
Frank yates:
Frank Yates (1902 -
1994) was one of the pioneers of 20th century statistics. He worked on the
design of experiments, including contributions to the theory of analysis of
variance and originating Yates' algorithm and the balanced incomplete block
design. He became an enthusiast of electronic computers, in 1954 obtaining an
Elliott 401 for Rothamsted and contributing to the initial development of
statistical computing. In 1931 Yates was appointed assistant statistician
at Rothamsted
Experimental Station by R.A. Fisher. In 1933 he became head of
statistics when Fisher went to University College
London. At Rothamsted he worked on the design of experiments,
including contributions to the theory ofanalysis of variance and
originating Yates's algorithm and the balanced incomplete block design.
After the war
he worked on sample survey design and analysis. He became
an enthusiast of electronic computers, in 1954
obtaining an Elliott 401for Rothamsted
and contributing to the initial development of statistical computing. In 1960 he was awarded the Guy
Medal in Gold of the Royal Statistical Society, and in 1966
he was awarded the Royal
Medal of the Royal
Society. He retired from Rothamsted to become a Senior Research Fellow
at Imperial College London. He died in 1994, aged 92, in Harpenden.
Publications
include:
·
The design and analysis of factorial experiments, Technical
Communication no. 35 of the Commonwealth Bureau of Soils (1937) (alternatively
attributed to the Imperial Bureau of Soil Science).
·
Statistical tables for biological, agricultural
and medical research (1938, coauthor R.A.
Fisher) sixth
edition
·
Sampling methods for censuses and surveys (1949)
·
Computer programs GENFAC, RGSP, Fitquan.
Kirstine smith:
Kirstine Smith (1878
- 1939) was born in Denmark. She was admitted as a candidate for a doctorate in
statistics in 1916 at the University of London and wrote a thesis that
was a precursor to modern optimal design theory, published in 1918 Biometrika. Karl Pearson
considered her to be one of his most brilliant mathematical
statisticians. Her work with Pearson on minimum chi-square spurred a
controversial dialog between Pearson and Fisher, and led to Fisher’s
introduction of sufficient statistics. She returned to teaching in
Denmark and ended her career there .
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