Virginia A. Clark

Short description: American statistician

Virginia Ann Clark (née Leader, 1928–2018) was an American statistician, professor emeritus of biostatistics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the coauthor of several books on statistics.

## Contents

* 1 Life
* 2 Books
* 3 Recognition
* 4 References

## Life

Clark was born in 1928,[1] in Grand Rapids, Michigan. After earning a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1950, she began working for the United States Atomic Energy Commission in Hanford, Washington. She studied the biostatistics of birth control at Harvard University in the late 1950s, earning a master's degree, and then completing a doctorate in biomedical statistics at the University of California, Los Angeles.[2]

She became a faculty member at the University of California, Los Angeles, and retired in the 1980s[2] to become an emeritus professor of biostatistics.[3] After retirement she and her husband lived in Sequim, Washington, where she died on January 24, 2018.[2]

## Books

Clark is the coauthor of:

* Applied Statistics: Analysis of Variance and Regression (with Olive Jean Dunn, 1974; 3rd ed. with Ruth M. Mickey, 2004)[4]
* Survival Distributions: Reliability Applications in the Biomedical Sciences (with Alan J. Gross, 1976)[5]
* Computer-Aided Multivariate Analysis (with Abdelmomem Afifi, 1984; 4th ed. with Susanne May, 2004)[6]
* Processing Data: The Survey Example (with Linda B. Bourque, 1992)[7]
* Basic Statistics: A Primer for the Biomedical Sciences (originally by Olive Jean Dunn; 4th ed. with Clark, 2009)[8]
* Practical Multivariate Analysis (with Abdelmomem Afifi and Susanne May, 5th ed., 2012)[9]

## Recognition

Clark became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1974.[10]

## References

1. ↑ Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2020-06-15
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Virginia Ann (Leader) Clark, 1928–2018", Peninsula Daily News, February 21, 2018, https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/peninsuladailynews/obituary.aspx?n=virginia-ann-clark-leader&pid=188238429 ; also in the Sequim Gazette.
3. ↑ Biostatistics faculty, University of California, Los Angeles, https://www.biostat.ucla.edu/faculty, retrieved 2020-06-15
4. ↑ Reviews of Applied Statistics:
* Atiqullah, M., "none", Mathematical Reviews
* Rasch, D., "none", zbMATH
* Ursianu, Emiliana, "none", zbMATH
* Galbraith, Jane (1975), "none", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General) 138 (2): 259, doi:10.2307/2984654
* Sprent, P. (April 1975), "none", International Statistical Review 43 (1): 117, doi:10.2307/1402667
* Imrey, Peter B. (March 1976), "none", Journal of the American Statistical Association 71 (353): 245, doi:10.2307/2285782
* Huitson, A. (September 1976), "none", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series D (The Statistician) 25 (3): 236, doi:10.2307/2987845
* Carter, Nancy J. (September 1988), "none", Journal of the American Statistical Association 83 (403): 912, doi:10.2307/2289337
* Wise, Steven L. (Summer 1990), "none", Journal of Educational Statistics 15 (2): 175–178, doi:10.2307/1164769
* "none", The American Statistician 58 (3): 262, August 2004
* Amin, Raid W. (November 2004), "none", Technometrics 46 (4): 491–492
5. ↑ Reviews of Survival Distributions:
* Grimm, H., "none", zbMATH
* Lee, P. N. (1976), "none", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C (Applied Statistics) 25 (3): 303, doi:10.2307/2347245
* Heil, Peter F. (November 1976), "none", Technometrics 18 (4): 501, doi:10.2307/1268667
6. ↑ Reviews of Computer-Aided Multivariate Analysis:
* Fang, Kai-tai, "none", zbMATH
* Martyna, J., "none", zbMATH
* Jackson, J. Edward (August 1985), "none", Technometrics 27 (3): 318–319, doi:10.2307/1269717
* Nordheim, Erik V. (September 1986), "none", Journal of the American Statistical Association 81 (395): 862–863, doi:10.2307/2289032
* Gentle, J. E. (December 1991), "none", Biometrics 47 (4): 1633–1634, doi:10.2307/2532420
* SW (June 1997), "none", Journal of the American Statistical Association 92 (438): 799, doi:10.2307/2965745
* "none", Biometrics 53 (2): 782, June 1997, doi:10.2307/2533984
* Ziegel, Eric R. (November 2004), "none", Technometrics 46 (4): 495
* Ravi, Sreenivasan (2005), "none", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society) 168 (4): 870
7. ↑ Reviews of Processing Data:
* "none", BMS: Bulletin of Sociological Methodology 37: 70, December 1992
* Tompkins, Diane L. (August 1993), "none", The American Statistician 47 (3): 235, doi:10.2307/2684986
* "none", Biometrics 49 (3): 959, September 1993, doi:10.2307/2532229
* Chalmers, C. P. (1994), "none", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series D (The Statistician) 43 (1), doi:10.2307/2348945
8. ↑ Review of Basic Statistics:
* Richardson, Alice (December 2010), "none", International Statistical Review / Revue Internationale de Statistique 78 (3): 453–454
9. ↑ Review of Practical Multivariate Analysis:
* "none", Technometrics 54 (1): 105, February 2012
10. ↑ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, https://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/ASA-Fellows-list.aspx, retrieved 2020-06-15

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