Nancy Geller
Marilyn Nancy Lorch Geller (born 1944)[1] is an American biostatistician, the director of biostatistics research at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and a former president of the American Statistical Association.[2]
Education
Geller studied mathematics at the City College of New York, graduating in 1965. She then went to Case Western Reserve University for graduate study in mathematics, earning a master's degree in 1967 and completing her doctorate in 1972.[3] Although she had enjoyed probability theory as an undergraduate, and entered graduate school intending to study the same subject, she ended up doing her graduate work in statistics.[2] Her dissertation, supervised by Lajos Takács, was On distribution of Some Kolmogrov-Smirnov Type Statistics.[4]
Career
Geller took faculty positions in statistics at the
She served as president of the American Statistical Association for 2011.[2]
Awards and honors
Geller became a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1993.[3] She is the 2009 winner of the Janet L. Norwood Award For Outstanding Achievement By A Woman In The Statistical Sciences.[3]
References
- ^ Birthdate from Worldcat
- ^ a b c d Cochrane, James (April 1, 2016), "ASA Leaders Reminisce: Nancy Geller", Amstat News, retrieved 2017-10-18
- ^ a b c d Eighth Annual Janet L. Norwood Award, University of Alabama School of Public Health, retrieved 2017-10-18. See also the linked curriculum vitae.
- ^ Nancy Geller at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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