Jean D. Gibbons
Jean Dickinson Gibbons (née Dickinson, born 1938)[1] is an American statistician, an expert in nonparametric statistics and an author of books on statistics.[2] She was the first chair of the Committee on Women in Statistics of the American Statistical Association,[3] and the Jean Dickinson Gibbons Graduate Program in Statistics at Virginia Tech is named for her.[2]
Life
Despite her parents' expectations that she become a nurse or teacher, Gibbons graduated magna cum laude in mathematics in 1958 from Duke University, and continued at Duke for a master's degree,[2][3] with a master's thesis on Judgments Concerning Applications of Measures of Central Tendency.[4] She went on to do graduate study at Columbia University,[2] but completed her PhD in 1962 from Virginia Tech.[3] Her dissertation was The Small-Sample Power of some Nonparametric Tests.[5]
After teaching at
Books
Gibbons is the author of ten books.[2][3] They include:
- Nonparametric Statistical Inference (McGraw Hill, 1971; 2nd ed., Marcel Dekker, 1985; 4th ed. with Subhabrata Chakraborti, Marcel Dekker, 2003; 5th ed., CRC Press, 2010; 6th ed., CRC Press 2020)[6]
- Selecting and Ordering Populations: A New Statistical Methodology (with Ingram Olkin and Milton Sobel, Wiley, 1977; Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics and Cambridge University Press, 2008)[7]
- Concepts of Nonparametric Theory (with John W Pratt, Springer, 1981)
- Nonparametric Methods for Quantitative Analysis (American Sciences Press, 1976; 2nd ed., 1985; 3rd ed., 1997)[8]
- Rank Correlation Methods (5th ed., with Maurice Kendall, Edward Arnold, 1990, update of a book originally published by Kendall alone in 1948)[9]
- Nonparametric Statistics: An introduction (Sage, 1993)
- Nonparametric Measures of Association (Sage, 1993)[10]
Awards and honors
Gibbons became a
In 2015, the graduate program in statistics at Virginia Tech was named in her honor.[2]
References
- ^ Birthdate from Worldcat
- ^ a b c d e f g McCallum, Annie (May 20, 2015), "Virginia Tech names statistics graduate program for alumna Jean Dickinson Gibbons", Virginia Tech News, retrieved 2017-10-22
- ^ a b c d e f g "Merit Matters Most: Meet Jean D. Gibbons", A Statistician's Life, Amstat News, American Statistical Association, July 1, 2014, retrieved 2017-10-22
- ^ Reference Department, Perkins Library, Duke University (1997), A preliminary list of masters theses and doctoral dissertations accepted at Duke University through, p. 309
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Ph.D. Degrees Awarded from VPI and SU (from "Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University during the first fifty years: 1949–1999")", IMS Bulletin, July–August 1999
- ^ Reviews of Nonparametric Statistical Inference:
Gottfried E. Noether (April 1972), SIAM Review 14 (2): 346–348, JSTOR 2028522; J. Klotz (December 1972), Biometrics 28 (4): 1148–1149,doi:10.2307/2528658; William D. Johnson (May 1973), Technometrics 15 (2): 421,doi:10.2307/1267003; Eric Ziegel (November 1988), Technometrics 30 (4): 457,doi:10.2307/1269817; Editor (September 2011), Biometrics 67 (3): 1183,JSTOR 41242576.
- ^ Reviews of Selecting and Ordering Populations: A New Statistical Methodology:
Edward J. Dudewicz (1979), Technometrics 21 (4): 582–583, JSTOR 1268301; Shanti S. Gupta (July 1982), SIAM Review 24 (3): 2,doi:10.1137/1024078.
- ^ Reviews of Nonparametric Methods for Quantitative Analysis:
G. Enderlein (1985), Biometrical Journal 27 (5): 490, ;
D. Rasch (1986), Biometrical Journal 28 (7): 782, ;
Ronald L. Iman (1986), Technometrics 28 (3): 275–277, ;
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G. Trenkler (1997), Biometrical Journal 39 (7): 830, ;
Roman Mureika (February–May 1998), INFOR 36 (1/2): 61–63, [1];
David J. Groggel (1999), Technometrics 41 (1): 75, JSTOR i254376.
- ^ Reviews of Rank Correlation Methods (5th ed.):
Z. Govindarajulu (1992), Technometrics 34 (1): 108, ;
John I. Marden (1992), Journal of the American Statistical Association 87 (417): 249, JSTOR 2290477.
- ^ Review of Nonparametric Measures of Association:
Marvin J. Podgor (1994), Journal of the American Statistical Association 89 (426): 719, doi:10.2307/2290888.
- ^ Fellows list, American Statistical Association, archived from the original on 2017-12-01, retrieved 2017-10-22
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