# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/olive-jean-dunn
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:05:43.095Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/olive-jean-dunn"
name: "Olive Jean Dunn"
slug: "olive-jean-dunn"
description: "Olive Jean Dunn was an American mathematician and statistician, and professor of biostatistics at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). She described methods for computing confidence intervals and also codified the Bonferroni correction's application to confidence intervals. She authored the textbook Basic Statistics: A Primer for the Biomedical Sciences in 1977."
tagline: "American mathematician (1915-2008)"
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birthDate: "1915-09-01"
deathDate: "2008-01-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump