Gertrude Mary Cox
Gertrude Mary Cox | |
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president of the American Statistical Association ; experimental statistics | |
Awards | Fellow of the American Statistics Association (1944)
Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1944) Member of the International Statistics Institute (1949) Honorary member of the Société Adolphe Quetelet (1954) Honorary fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (1959) University of North Carolina's Oliver Max Gardner Award (1959) International Award for Distinguished Service to Agriculture (awarded by Gamma Sigma Delta, 1960) Honorary Life Membership of the Biometric Society (1964) Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1975) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Research Triangle Institute |
Thesis | "A Statistical Investigation of a Teacher's Ability as Indicated by the Success of His Students in Subsequent Courses" (1931) |
Academic advisors | George W. Snedecor |
Gertrude Mary Cox (January 13, 1900 – October 17, 1978) was an American
Early life and education
Gertrude Cox was born in
From 1931 to 1933 Cox undertook graduate studies in psychological statistics at the
Academic career
In 1939 Cox was appointed assistant professor of statistics at
In 1960 she took up her final post as Director of Statistics at the
Book
In 1950 she published a joint work with William Cochran, Experimental Designs,[8] which became the major reference work on the design of experiments for statisticians for years afterwards.
Recognition
Cox has received many honors. In 1949, she became the first woman elected into the
The University of North Carolina system named her an O. Max Gardner Award recipient in 1959. North Carolina State University honored Cox by naming Cox Hall in her honor in 1970, and awarding her a Watauga Medal in 1977. Iowa State College in 1958 awarded her an honorary Doctorate of Science in statistics. The Caucus for Women in Statistics also established a Gertrude M. Cox Scholarship in 1989.[10]
References
- ^ "Gertrude Mary Cox". www.agnesscott.edu. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
- ^ "Celebrating Women Statisticians Throughout History - Navitas Life Sciences". www.navitaslifesciences.com. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
- ^ Anderson, Richard L (1990), Gertrude Mary Cox, 1900-1978: A Biographical Memoir (PDF), National Academies Press, archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-03-26, retrieved 2018-04-25
- ^ a b c Riddle, Larry (2014), Biographies of Women Mathematicians: Gertrude Mary Cox, Agnes Scott College, retrieved 2018-04-25
- ^ ISBN 9781598841589.
- ^ ISBN 0-87436-740-9.
- ^ "Cox biography". www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk. University of St Andrews, Scotland. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
- ^ Cochran, William G.; Cox, Gertrude M. (1950). Experimental Designs. New York: Wiley.
- ^ Honored Fellows, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, archived from the original on 2014-03-02, retrieved 2017-11-24
- ^ "American Statistical Association".
External links
- Gertrude Mary Cox Collection, 1918-1983 (North Carolina State University Libraries)
- "Gertrude Cox", Biographies of Women Mathematicians, Agnes Scott College
- Guide to the Gertrude Cox Letters to Julie McVay 1963–1971
- MacTutor biography Archived 2012-05-03 at the Wayback Machine
- ASA: Gertrude M. Cox
- NC State University Gertrude Cox Award
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