Virginia A. Clark
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Born | 1928 Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S. |
Died | January 24, 2018 Sequim, Washington, U.S. | (aged 89–90)
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Virginia Ann Clark (née Leader, 1928–2018) was an American statistician, professor emeritus of biostatistics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the coauthor of several books on statistics.
Life
Clark was born in 1928,[1] in Grand Rapids, Michigan. After earning a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1950, she began working for the United States Atomic Energy Commission in Hanford, Washington. She studied the biostatistics of birth control at Harvard University in the late 1950s, earning a master's degree, and then completing a doctorate in biomedical statistics at the University of California, Los Angeles.[2]
She became a faculty member at the University of California, Los Angeles, and retired in the 1980s[2] to become an emeritus professor of biostatistics.[3] After retirement she and her husband lived in Sequim, Washington, where she died on January 24, 2018.[2]
Books
Clark is the coauthor of:
- Applied Statistics: Analysis of Variance and Regression (with Olive Jean Dunn, 1974; 3rd ed. with Ruth Mickey, 2004)[4]
- Survival Distributions: Reliability Applications in the Biomedical Sciences (with Alan J. Gross, 1976)[5]
- Computer-Aided Multivariate Analysis (with Abdelmomem Afifi, 1984; 4th ed. with Susanne May, 2004)[6]
- Processing Data: The Survey Example (with Linda B. Bourque, 1992)[7]
- Basic Statistics: A Primer for the Biomedical Sciences (originally by Olive Jean Dunn; 4th ed. with Clark, 2009)[8]
- Practical Multivariate Analysis (with Abdelmomem Afifi and Susanne May, 5th ed., 2012)[9]
Recognition
Clark became a
References
- ^ Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2020-06-15
- ^ a b c "Virginia Ann (Leader) Clark, 1928–2018", Peninsula Daily News, February 21, 2018 – via Legacy.com; also in the Sequim Gazette.
- ^ Biostatistics faculty, University of California, Los Angeles, retrieved 2020-06-15
- ^ Reviews of Applied Statistics:
- Atiqullah, M., Mathematical Reviews, )
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- Sprent, P. (April 1975), International Statistical Review, 43 (1): 117, )
- Imrey, Peter B. (March 1976), Journal of the American Statistical Association, 71 (353): 245, )
- Huitson, A. (September 1976), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series D (The Statistician), 25 (3): 236, )
- Carter, Nancy J. (September 1988), Journal of the American Statistical Association, 83 (403): 912, )
- Wise, Steven L. (Summer 1990), Journal of Educational Statistics, 15 (2): 175–178, )
- The American Statistician, 58 (3): 262, August 2004, )
- Amin, Raid W. (November 2004), Technometrics, 46 (4): 491–492, )
- ^ Reviews of Survival Distributions:
- Grimm, H., zbMATH, Zbl 0334.62044)
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- Lee, P. N. (1976), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C (Applied Statistics), 25 (3): 303, )
- Heil, Peter F. (November 1976), Technometrics, 18 (4): 501, )
- ^ Reviews of Computer-Aided Multivariate Analysis:
- Fang, Kai-tai, zbMATH, Zbl 0888.62050)
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- Fang, Kai-tai, zbMATH,
- Martyna, J., zbMATH, Zbl 1053.62066)
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link - Jackson, J. Edward (August 1985), Technometrics, 27 (3): 318–319, )
- Nordheim, Erik V. (September 1986), Journal of the American Statistical Association, 81 (395): 862–863, )
- Gentle, J. E. (December 1991), Biometrics, 47 (4): 1633–1634, )
- SW (June 1997), Journal of the American Statistical Association, 92 (438): 799, )
- Biometrics, 53 (2): 782, June 1997, )
- Ziegel, Eric R. (November 2004), Technometrics, 46 (4): 495, )
- Ravi, Sreenivasan (2005), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society), 168 (4): 870, )
- ^ Reviews of Processing Data:
- Bulletin of Sociological Methodology, 37: 70, December 1992, )
- Tompkins, Diane L. (August 1993), The American Statistician, 47 (3): 235, )
- Biometrics, 49 (3): 959, September 1993, )
- Chalmers, C. P. (1994), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series D (The Statistician), 43 (1), )
- ^ Review of Basic Statistics:
- Richardson, Alice (December 2010), International Statistical Review / Revue Internationale de Statistique, 78 (3): 453–454, )
- ^ Review of Practical Multivariate Analysis:
- Technometrics, 54 (1): 105, February 2012, )
- ^ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2020-06-15