Jane F. Gentleman

Jane Forer Gentleman is an American and Canadian statistician, the second female president (after Agnes M. Herzberg) of the Statistical Society of Canada,[1] and the first winner of the Janet L. Norwood Award For Outstanding Achievement By A Woman In The Statistical Sciences.[1][2]

She is the daughter of Joseph Forer, a U.S. attorney known for his progressive stances on segregation and political discrimination, and his wife Florence, a schoolteacher.[3] She did her undergraduate studies at the University of Chicago, and earned a master's degree there. She completed her Ph.D. in statistics in 1973 at the University of Waterloo.[2] Her dissertation was A Statistical Analysis of Mortality Data for Smokers and Non-Smokers, and for Males and Females.[4]

She stayed at Waterloo as a faculty member, teaching there for 14 years before joining Statistics Canada for another 9 years.[2] At Waterloo, Mary E. Thompson (later to become president of the Statistical Society of Canada herself) remembers Gentleman as "a fine role model and mentor". She was president of the Statistical Society of Canada for 1997–1998. In 1999, she moved to the National Center for Health Statistics in Washington, D.C..[1]

Gentleman was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1983.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Thompson, Mary E. (2014), "Reflections on women in statistics in Canada", in Lin, Xihong; Genest, Christian; Banks, David L.; Molenberghs, Geert; Scott, David W.; Wang, Jane-Ling, Past, Present, and Future of Statistical Science, CRC Press, pp. 203–216, ISBN 9781482204988
  2. 1 2 3 First Annual Janet L. Norwood Award, University of Alabama School of Public Health, retrieved 2017-11-27
  3. ↑ "Florence Forer", Paid death notices, The Washington Post, March 29, 2005, retrieved 2017-11-27
  4. ↑ "Ph.D.'s in Probability and Statistics Awarded by Universities in Canada: 1973–1977", The Canadian Journal of Statistics, 5 (2): 259–262, 1977, JSTOR 3314786
  5. ↑ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2017-11-27
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