Julie Legler

Julie M. Legler is an American biostatistician and statistics educator. She is a professor of statistics at St. Olaf College.[1]

Legler did her undergraduate studies at the University of Minnesota, and continued there for a master's degree.[2] As a doctoral student in biostatistics at Harvard University, she became one of the early recipients of the Gertrude Cox Scholarship of the American Statistical Association's Committee on Women in Statistics.[3] Her 1993 dissertation, supervised by Louise M. Ryan, was Statistical Analysis for Multiple Binary Outcomes: The Analysis of Birth Defects Data.[4]

After working for seven years in the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health,[2] she moved to St. Olaf, a small liberal arts college that attracted her with its enthusiastic students and low-pressure atmosphere.[5] At St. Olaf, she has directed the statistics program and headed the Center for Interdisciplinary Research,[1] a program that finds projects in other disciplines to which statistics students can contribute.[5] She has also directed the St. Olaf program for Collaborative Undergraduate Research and Inquiry.[2] Legler chaired the Joint Committee on Undergraduate Statistics of the American Statistical Association and Mathematical Association of America in 2009.

She is one of eight co-authors of the textbook STAT2: Building Models for a World of Data (Macmillan, 2013).[2]

In 2013, Legler was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[6]

References
  1. "Julie Legler", Faculty and staff, St. Olaf College, retrieved 2017-11-20
  2. Julie M. Legler, Macmillan Learning, retrieved 2017-11-20
  3. Cox Scholarship Recipients, American Statistical Association Committee on Women in Statistics, retrieved 2017-11-20
  4. Dissertations 1947–2018, Harvard Department of Biostatistics, retrieved 2017-11-20
  5. Pope, Loren (2012), Colleges that Change Lives: 40 Schools that Will Change the Way You Think about Colleges, Penguin, p. 244, ISBN 9780143122302
  6. ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, archived from the original on 2019-11-21, retrieved 2017-11-20
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