Yvonne Millicent Mahala Bishop (died May 26, 2015)[1] was an English-born[2] statistician who spent her working life in America. She wrote a "classic" book on multivariate statistics, and made important studies of the health effects of anesthetics and air pollution. Later in her career, she became the Director of the Office of Statistical Standards in the Energy Information Administration.
Yvonne Bishop | |
|---|---|
| Died | May 26, 2015 |
| Title | Director of the Office of Statistical Standards, Energy Information Administration |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Thesis | Multi-Dimensional Contingency Tables: Cell Estimates (1967) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Statistics |
| Sub-discipline | Biostatistics |
| Institutions | Harvard School of Public Health, United States Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration |
| Notable works | Discrete Multivariate Analysis: Theory and Practice |
Education
editBishop completed her Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1967; her dissertation was Multi-Dimensional Contingency Tables: Cell Estimates.[3] As a student, she also made significant contributions to a national study of the side-effects of halothane anesthetics,[4] and temporarily moved to Stanford University to take part in the study.[5]
Writing of her during this period, Frederick Mosteller says that she already had significant experience in biology. She had worked in the fishing and fishery industry, but moved to health and medicine after experiencing too much discrimination as a woman in the fisheries. Mosteller writes that she had "a remarkable ability to get things done", and that she wrote several chapters of the halothane report.[5]
Career
editAfter completing her doctorate, Bishop worked for the Children's Cancer Research Foundation, and as a faculty member in the biostatistics department of the Harvard School of Public Health.[6] At Harvard, she became one of the lead researchers of the Harvard Six Cities study, an influential work on the effects of air pollution on public health.[7][8] In 1975, she was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[9]
By 1982 Bishop had moved to Washington, D.C., where she was listed as deputy assistant director for energy data operations at the United States Department of Energy.[10] In 1996 she was listed as Director of the Office of Statistical Standards in the Energy Information Administration.[11]
Book
editWith Stephen Fienberg and Paul W. Holland, Bishop became the author of a book on multivariate statistics, Discrete Multivariate Analysis: Theory and Practice (MIT Press, 1975; Springer, 2007).[12] By 1980 the book had already become regarded as a "classic" in the field.[13]
References
edit- ^ "Dr. Yvonne M. Bishop", Paid death notices, The Washington Post, 2015-06-06
- ^ "Obituaries for October 2015". Amstat News. October 2015. Retrieved 2020-02-11.
- ^ Bishop, Yvonne Millicent Mahala, Multi-Dimensional Contingency Tables: Cell Estimates, MR 2623783, ProQuest 302255816
- ^ National Research Council Subcommittee on the National Halothane Study (1969), Bunker, John P. (ed.), The National Halothane Study: A Study of the Possible Association Between Halothane Anesthesia and Postoperative Hepatic Necrosis, National Academies
- ^ a b Mosteller, Frederick (2010), The Pleasures of Statistics: The Autobiography of Frederick Mosteller, Springer, pp. 78–79, ISBN 9780387779560
- ^ "Association News", American Journal of Public Health, 63 (7): 576–666, July 1973, doi:10.2105/ajph.63.7.576-b
- ^ The Department of Biostatistics: A Timeline, Harvard Department of Biostatistics, 2015-03-03, retrieved 2017-11-23
- ^ Laird, Nan; Zelen, Marvin (2012), "Harvard University Department of Biostatistics", in Agresti, Alan; Meng, Xiao-Li (eds.), Strength in Numbers: The Rising of Academic Statistics Departments in the U. S., Springer, pp. 77–90, doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-3649-2_7, ISBN 9781461436492. See especially p. 83.
- ^ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2017-11-15
- ^ Eldridge, Marie D.; Wallman, Katherine K.; Wulfsberg, Rolf M.; Bailar, Barbara A.; Bishop, Yvonne M.; Kibler, William E.; Orleans, Beatrice S.; Rice, Dorothy P.; Schaible, Wesley; Selig, Seymour M.; Sirken, Monroe G. (May 1982), "Preparing Statisticians for Careers in the Federal Government: Report of the ASA Section on Statistical Education Committee on Training of Statisticians for Government", The American Statistician, 36 (2): 69–81, doi:10.1080/00031305.1982.10482784
- ^ Residential Energy Consumption Survey Quality Profile (PDF), U.S. Department of Energy, March 1996
- ^ Reviews of Discrete Multivariate Analysis:
- Good, I. J., Mathematical Reviews, MR0381130
- Beniger, James R. (September 1975), Contemporary Sociology, 4 (5): 507–509, doi:10.2307/2063625, JSTOR 2063625
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Haberman, Shelby J. (July 1976), Annals of Statistics, 4 (4): 817–820, doi:10.1214/aos/1176343556, JSTOR 2958194
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Plackett, R. L. (1976), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General), 139 (3): 402–403, doi:10.2307/2344845, JSTOR 2344845
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Imrey, Peter B. (March 1977), Applied Psychological Measurement, 1 (2): 297–306, doi:10.1177/014662167700100218, S2CID 119687899
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Olkin, Ingram (April 1977), "A Statistical Technique", Science, 196 (4286): 156–157, doi:10.1126/science.196.4286.156, JSTOR 1743674, PMID 17757564
- Nerlove, Marc; Press, S. James (May 1978), Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 84 (3): 470–480, doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1978-14496-6, MR 1567059
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Sokal, Robert R. (September 1978), The Quarterly Review of Biology, 53 (3): 361, doi:10.1086/410783, JSTOR 2823622
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Farkas, George (May 1979), American Journal of Sociology, 84 (6): 1483–1486, doi:10.1086/226953, JSTOR 2777911
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- ^ Srivastava, Rajendra K. (August 1980), "Discrete Multivariate Analysis Books: A Review", Journal of Marketing Research, 17 (3): 395–402, doi:10.1177/002224378001700316, JSTOR 3150541, S2CID 169211753