Cleo Youtz
Cleo S. Youtz (1909–2005) was an American statistician who worked for many years at Harvard University as the research assistant, collaborator, computer, and coauthor of Frederick Mosteller,[1] as manager of Mosteller's other staff,[2] and as the historian of the Harvard statistics department.[1] Youtz was hired by Mosteller in 1957 when he was appointed chair of the newly formed department,[3] and continued working with Mosteller after he retired from teaching in 1987, until he finally left Harvard in 2003.[4]
Selected publications
Although Mosteller did not list Youtz as a coauthor on all of his publications, she was listed on many, including:
- Mosteller, Frederick; Youtz, Cleo (1961), "Tables of the Freeman–Tukey transformations for the binomial and Poisson distributions", Biometrika, 48: 433–440, MR 0132623
- Mosteller, Frederick; Siegel, Andrew F.; Trapido, Edward; Youtz, Cleo (August 1981), "Eye fitting straight lines", The American Statistician, 35 (3): 150–152, JSTOR 2683983
- Reagan, Robert T.; Mosteller, Frederick; Youtz, Cleo (1989), "Quantitative meanings of verbal probability expressions", Journal of Applied Psychology, 74 (3): 433–442,
- Mosteller, Frederick; Youtz, Cleo (1990), "Quantifying probabilistic expressions", Statistical Science, 5 (1): 2–34, MR 1054855
One of the few publications crediting her as a contributor but not written with Mosteller was a festschrift for Mosteller's 70th birthday, A Statistical Model: Frederick Mosteller's Contributions to Statistics, Science, and Public Policy (1990),[5] which listed her as a collaborator on its title page and stated that "but for her modesty" she should have been listed as one of its editors.[6]
References
- ^ ISBN 9781461436492; see especially p. 92.
- MR 2584171
- ^ Petrosino, Anthony (2006), "Charles Frederick [Fred] Mosteller (1916-2006)", JLL Bulletin
- ^ Frederick Mosteller — Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences
- JSTOR 2075520
- MR 1072147