Gertrude Mary Cox
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Gertrude Mary Cox was an American statistician and founder of the department of Experimental Statistics at North Carolina State University.
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Charles ClarkeAlso won Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society
William KruskalAlso won Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Jacob MincerAlso won Fellow of the American Statistical Association
R. G. D. AllenAlso won Fellow of the American Statistical Association
William Gemmell CochranAlso won Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society
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Gertrude Mary Cox was an American statistician and founder of the department of Experimental Statistics at North Carolina State University. She was later appointed director of both the Institute of Statistics of the Consolidated University of North Carolina and the Statistics Research Division of North Carolina State University. Her most important and influential research dealt with experimental design; In 1950 she published the book Experimental Designs, on the subject with W. G. Cochran, which became the major reference work on the design of experiments for statisticians for years afterwards. In 1949 Cox became the first woman elected into the International Statistical Institute and in 1956 was President of the American Statistical Association.
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