Equivalence - Amanda L Golbeck

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Auteur(s) : Amanda L Golbeck

Editeur : Crc Press

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/04/2017

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 634

Expédition : 916

Dimensions : 23.1 x 15.5 x 3.6

ISBN : 9781482249446

Résumé :

This biography centers on the late Elizabeth Leonard Scott's use of statistical reasoning to promote the status of women in academia. Scott (1917- 1988) was a professor of statistics at the University of California at Berkeley (UCB). She was known for her scientific research in mathematical statistics, astronomy, and biostatistics, but she is especially remembered for her work on the status of academic women.

Biographie:

Amanda L. Golbeck is professor of biostatistics and associate dean for academic affairs in the Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. She has had a long-term interest in gender equity issues in academe that stems from her early association with Scott. Golbeck was the lead editor of Leadership and Women in Statistics (Chapman & Hall/CRC Press) and has had a number of published articles on gender issues in the statistics profession. In 2016, the Committee on Presidents of Statistical Societies selected Golbeck to receive the COPSS Elizabeth L. Scott Award.

Sommaire:

Introduction. Framing the local research questions (1968). West Point and the field artillery family (ancestry I). Collecting, managing, and summarizing the local data (1969). Aunt Phoebe the astronomer (ancestry II). Reporting the local data (1970). Becoming an outlier. Using the local data for advocacy (1971). 10,000 hours of professional practice. Regressing national data (1972). The UC - Berkeley department of statistics. Focusing on salary data (1973). With Jerzy Neyman. Advocating for data quality improvement (1974). Loyalty oath, civil rights, free speech. Using statistical reasoning toward affirmative action (1975). Productivity as a statistical scientist. Creating the salary evaluation kit (1976). Influencing academic salaries (1977). Continuing efforts to further the careers of academic women (1978 - 1981). After Neyman. (1982 - 1988).