American Naval statistician
Beatrice Shulamit Orleans (November 7, 1918 - October 22, 2011)[ 1] statistician for the United States Navy ,[ 2] Naval Sea Systems Command .[ 3]
She was elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1979.[ 4]
Orleans was originally from New York City . She did her undergraduate studies at Hunter College ,[ 2] [ 5] Columbia University in statistics, circa 1944.[ 2] [ 6] George Washington University , American University , and the USDA Graduate School . Prior to going to work for the Navy circa 1953, she worked for the Educational Testing Service , served as an aviation psychologist for the United States Air Force , and became head of statistics at the Air Force Human Resources Research Laboratory . She became head of the Navy's Statistical Engineering Branch in approximately 1963.[ 6]
She lived to be 92 years old, and died of respiratory failure at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C. , on October 22, 2011.[ 2]
References
^ "Beatrice S Orleans" . Retrieved December 21, 2020 .^ a b c d "Beatrice S. Orleans, statistician" , The Washington Post ^ Development and Testing of a Bayesian Sequential Testing Methodology for Assessing the Reliability of Defense Systems (PDF) , Defense Technical Information Center, March 22, 1978, p. 82^ ASA Fellows list the original on 2017-12-01, retrieved 2017-11-10 ^ Commencement (PDF) , Hunter College, February 1, 1939, retrieved 2017-11-10 ^ a b About the authors. From Orleans, Beatrice S.; Myers, Stanley (October 1970), "Developing a statistically designed experiment for comparing technical manuals", Naval Engineers Journal , 82 (5): 87–101, doi :10.1111/j.1559-3584.1970.tb04363.x
