American statistician
Mary Ellen Johnston Bock is a retired American statistician, now a professor emeritus at Purdue University [ 1] [ 2] president of the American Statistical Association in 2007.[ 3]
Education and career
As an undergraduate at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign , Bock earned a bachelor's degree in the German language in 1967.[ 1] 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]
Awards and honors
Bock is a fellow of the American Statistical Association , of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ,[ 1] Institute of Mathematical Statistics .[ 6] [ 1]
References
^ a b c d e "Mary Ellen Bock" , Faculty Directory , Purdue University Department of Statistics, retrieved 2017-10-14 ^ a b Srivastava, Sanvesh; Doerge, Rebecca W. (2012), "Purdue Statistics: A Journey Through Time", in Agresti, Alan; Meng, Xiao-Li (eds.), Strength in Numbers: The Rising of Academic Statistics Departments in the U. S. , Springer, pp. 229– 242, doi :10.1007/978-1-4614-3649-2_17 , ISBN 9781461436492 "Mary Ellen Bock's Era: Adapting to the Changing Times (1995–2010)" , pp. 235–238.^ Pearson, Willie; Frehill, Lisa M.; McNeely, Connie L., eds. (2015), Advancing Women in Science: An International Perspective ISBN 9783319086293 ^ Mary Ellen Bock at the Mathematics Genealogy Project ^ M. E. Bock (January 1975). "Minimax Estimators of the Mean of a Multivariate Normal Distribution" . Ann. Statist . 3 (1): 209– 218. doi :10.1214/aos/1176343009 ^ Honored Fellows , retrieved 2018-10-27
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