Kirstine Smith
Kirstine Smith (April 12, 1878 – November 11, 1939) was a Danish
optimal design of experiments
.
Background
Smith grew up in the town of
Thorvald Thiele[1] and later with the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea for which she authored several volumes on fish populations.[2]
In 1916, Smith was admitted for doctoral training at the
chi-squared estimation of the correlation coefficient.[3] Disagreements about aspects of her work led to increased friction between Pearson and Fisher.[3]
In her dissertation, which was published in 1918 (see below), she invented
optimal design where she computed G-optimal designs for polynomial regression of order up to 6.[3] After finishing her doctorate she moved to Copenhagen, where she worked as a researcher for the Commission for Ocean Research 1918 to 1924 and with Johannes Schmidt at the Carlsberg Laboratory from 1920 to 1921.[1] She eventually left research after obtaining her teaching credentials to become a high school teacher.[2]
Selected statistical papers
- Smith, K. (1916). On the ‘best’ values of the constants in frequency distributions. Biometrika, 11(3), 262–276.
- Smith, K. (1918). On the standard deviations of adjusted and interpolated values of an observed polynomial function and its constants and the guidance they give towards a proper choice of the distribution of observations. Biometrika, 12(1/2), 1–85.
- Smith, K. (1922).The standard deviations of fraternal and parental correlation coefficients. Biometrika, 14(1/2), 1–22.
References
- ^ a b Gumpertz, M.L. Thumbnail biography of Kirstine Smith (Accessed 23 August 2013).
- ^ a b Crary Group (Accessed 23 August 2013 via Google archive). Archived 10 August 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ S2CID 121294724.
