Olive Jean Dunn
American mathematician (1915-2008) · United States · On the map · Academics · Died at 92
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.
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She authored the textbook Basic Statistics: A Primer for the Biomedical Sciences in 1977.
Country
United States
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1915 to 2008 · aged 92
