Mary Ellen Bock
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| Mary Ellen Johnston Bock | |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | Purdue University |
| Thesis | Certain Minimax Estimators of the Mean of a Multivariate Normal Distribution (1974) |
Mary Ellen Johnston Bock is a retired American statistician, now a professor emeritus at Purdue University[1] after becoming the first female full professor of statistics and the first female chair of the department there.[2] She was
Education and career
As an undergraduate at the
As chair of statistics at Purdue from 1995 to 2010, Bock led the department through a period of growth, and took a multidisciplinary approach to the subject that included computational statistics as well as application areas including biostatistics, statistical finance, and environmental statistics.[2]
Awards and honors
Bock is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,[1] and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.[6] She won the Founders Award of the American Statistical Association in 2013.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e "Mary Ellen Bock", Faculty Directory, Purdue University Department of Statistics, retrieved 2017-10-14
- ^ ISBN 9781461436492. See in particular "Mary Ellen Bock's Era: Adapting to the Changing Times (1995–2010)", pp. 235–238.
- ISBN 9783319086293
- ^ Mary Ellen Bock at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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- ^ Honored Fellows, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, retrieved 2018-10-27
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