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Gertrude Cox
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Gertrude Cox
Recognitions
- President of the American Statistical Association in 1957, and was known for her ethical concepts and eager to work hard.
- In 1970 , NC State University designated the building in which statistics was housed as Cox Hall
- In 1977 a Gertrude M. Cox Fellowship Fund was established for outstanding graduate students in statistics
- The Gertrude M. Cox Scholarship was established in 1989 to encourage more women to enter statistically oriented professions.
Contribution Towards Statistics
- Taught graduate classes about a collection of real life examples in a variety of experimental areas
- Emphasized the role of randomization and stressed the need to ascertain if the size of the experiment was sufficient to demonstrate treatment differences if they existed
- 3 principals to setting up an experiment:
1. The experimenter should set forth his or her objectives before proceeding
2. Experiment should be described in detail
3.An outline analysis should be drawn up before the experiment is started
Further Studies
- She Studied psychological Statistics and graduated as an assistant in University of California, Berkley.
- In 1940 she was appointed to organize and head a Department of Experimental Statistics in the School of Agriculture at North Carolina State College
- In 1949, she helped to establish the Department of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina
Early Studies
- Majored in Mathematics at Iowa State College
-"I majored in math because I liked it and because I could elect all the psychology and craft courses I needed."
- Received her bachelor's Degree in Mathematics in 1929
- Received her Master's Degree at the same college in 1921
Gertrude's early life
- Born on January 13, 1900 in Daytona, Iowa
- Daughter of Allen and Emma Cox
- Studied at Perry High School in Iowa
- After Graduating in 1952 she studied to become a deaconess in the methodists Episcopal church, but later realized that wasn't the path for her
- Remained unmarried and took the families of the members of her faculty for her family
http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/cox.htm
http://www.biometricsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Mary-Cox.pdf
http://www.amstat.org/about/statisticiansinhistory/index.cfm?fuseaction=biosinfo&BioID=2
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