Influential Statisticians of Yesteryear Active in the Washington Statistical Society

摘要

The Washington Statistical Society (WSS) is the Washington, D.C., area chapter of the American Statistical Association (ASA). It has a rich history that is described on the WSS web pages. In this article, we profile some influential statisticians of yesteryear who were active in WSS. The statisticians profiled are Joseph Adna Hill, the Chief Statistician of the Bureau of the Census and originator of the Huntington-Hill apportionment method; Ewan Clague, the distinguished and long-serving Commissioner of Labor Statistics; Meyer A. Girshick, notable both as an applied statistician and researcher in decision theory and sequential analysis; Morris H. Hansen, considered one of the twentieth century's most influential survey statisticians; Jerome Cornfield, a leader in transforming biostatistics into a subject with major concerns with clinical, biomedical, and epidemiological research; Margaret E. Martin, a key person in the development of the federal statistical system; Samuel W. Greenhouse, a pioneer in the use of statistical methods in epidemiological research and clinical trials; W. Edwards Deming, the renowned quality management expert; and Joseph Waksberg,a major developer of modern statistical survey methods.