Mary Ellen Bock | |
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Mary Ellen Johnston Bock | |
Alma mater | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Statistics |
Institutions | Purdue University |
Thesis | Certain Minimax Estimators of the Mean of a Multivariate Normal Distribution (1974) |
Mary Ellen Johnston Bock is a retired American statistician, now a professor emeritus at Purdue University [1] after becoming the first female full professor of statistics and the first female chair of the department there. [2] She was president of the American Statistical Association in 2007. [3]
As an undergraduate at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Bock earned a bachelor's degree in the German language in 1967. [1] She switched to mathematics for her graduate studies at the same university, completing her PhD in 1974 under the supervision of Robert B. Ash with a dissertation on Certain Minimax Estimators of the Mean of a Multivariate Normal Distribution. [1] [4] [5]
As chair of statistics at Purdue from 1995 to 2010, Bock led the department through a period of growth, and took a multidisciplinary approach to the subject that included computational statistics as well as application areas including biostatistics, statistical finance, and environmental statistics. [2]
Bock is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, [1] and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. [6] She won the Founders Award of the American Statistical Association in 2013. [1]
Mary Ellen Bock | |
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Mary Ellen Johnston Bock | |
Alma mater | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Statistics |
Institutions | Purdue University |
Thesis | Certain Minimax Estimators of the Mean of a Multivariate Normal Distribution (1974) |
Mary Ellen Johnston Bock is a retired American statistician, now a professor emeritus at Purdue University [1] after becoming the first female full professor of statistics and the first female chair of the department there. [2] She was president of the American Statistical Association in 2007. [3]
As an undergraduate at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Bock earned a bachelor's degree in the German language in 1967. [1] She switched to mathematics for her graduate studies at the same university, completing her PhD in 1974 under the supervision of Robert B. Ash with a dissertation on Certain Minimax Estimators of the Mean of a Multivariate Normal Distribution. [1] [4] [5]
As chair of statistics at Purdue from 1995 to 2010, Bock led the department through a period of growth, and took a multidisciplinary approach to the subject that included computational statistics as well as application areas including biostatistics, statistical finance, and environmental statistics. [2]
Bock is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, [1] and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. [6] She won the Founders Award of the American Statistical Association in 2013. [1]