Dorothy M. Gilford
Dorothy M. Gilford | |
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Born | Dorothy Jeanne Morrow 1919 Ottumwa, Iowa, U.S. |
Died | December 6, 2014 | (aged 94–95)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of Washington |
Occupation | Statistician |
Spouse |
Leon Gilford (m. 1950) |
Awards | Fellow of the American Statistical Association (1961) |
Dorothy Morrow Gilford (1919 – December 6, 2014)[1] was an American statistician who headed the Division of Mathematical Sciences at the Office of Naval Research, the National Center for Education Statistics, and the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences.[2] She was the editor of The Aging Population in the Twenty-First Century: Statistics for Health Policy (National Academies Press, 1988).[3]
Early life and education
Dorothy Jeanne Morrow was born in
Because she applied to doctoral programs during World War II, the competition was light and Morrow had a choice of many programs to go to. Initially, she chose Bryn Mawr College, where she worked with Hilda Geiringer on genetics. In 1942 at the invitation of Harold Hotelling she transferred to Columbia University. She disliked the cold atmosphere and remote faculty there, and returned to Bryn Mawr after a year, but continued working with Hotelling. Without completing her doctorate, she took a faculty position at George Washington University. She finished a dissertation on mathematics related to Hotelling's T-squared distribution, but by then Hotelling had moved to North Carolina and the remaining Columbia faculty were unreceptive, so she never completed a Ph.D.[2]
Later career
Morrow married
At the invitation of
During this period, Gilford was also active in service to the professional societies for her fields. She served as secretary of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics from 1960 to 1964,[4] worked with the International Statistical Institute, and chaired the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences.[2]
In 1968, Gilford left ONR, at a time when the ONR was shifting away from basic research to more applied military research under the Mansfield Amendment. She moved to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, where she headed the National Center for Education Statistics. Caught up in office politics there, she retired from federal service in 1974, and came to work for the National Academy of Sciences, eventually becoming involved with the Committee on National Statistics there, and founding and heading the Board on International Comparative Studies in Education. After another 19 years of work there, she retired for a second time.[2]
Recognition
In 1965, president
Gilford was elected as a
References
- ^ "Dorothy M. Gilford", Paid death notices, The Washington Post, December 14, 2014
- ^ S2CID 62226134
- ^ Reviews of The Aging Population in the Twenty-First Century:
- Sykes, James T. (November 1989), Health Services Management Research, 2 (3): 228–229, )
- Kalache, Alex (March 1990), Statistics in Medicine, 9 (3): 346–347, doi:10.1002/sim.4780090320)
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- ^ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, archived from the original on 2017-12-01, retrieved 2017-11-18
- ^ Historic Fellows, American Association for the Advancement of Science, retrieved 2021-04-16
- ^ Honored IMS Fellows, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, archived from the original on 2014-03-02, retrieved 2017-11-18
- ^ Individual members, International Statistical Institute, archived from the original on 2017-07-29, retrieved 2017-11-18