Virginia A. Clark

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.

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. "Virginia Ann (Leader) Clark, 1928–2018", Peninsula Daily News, February 21, 2018 – via Legacy.com; also in the Sequim Gazette.
  3. Biostatistics faculty, University of California, Los Angeles, retrieved 2020-06-15
  4. Reviews of Applied Statistics:
    • Atiqullah, M., Mathematical Reviews, MR 0336917CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Rasch, D., zbMATH, Zbl 0292.62046CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Ursianu, Emiliana, zbMATH, Zbl 1059.62075CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Galbraith, Jane (1975), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General), 138 (2): 259, doi:10.2307/2984654, JSTOR 2984654CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Sprent, P. (April 1975), International Statistical Review, 43 (1): 117, doi:10.2307/1402667, JSTOR 1402667CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Imrey, Peter B. (March 1976), Journal of the American Statistical Association, 71 (353): 245, doi:10.2307/2285782, JSTOR 2285782CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Huitson, A. (September 1976), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series D (The Statistician), 25 (3): 236, doi:10.2307/2987845, JSTOR 2987845CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Carter, Nancy J. (September 1988), Journal of the American Statistical Association, 83 (403): 912, doi:10.2307/2289337, JSTOR 2289337CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Wise, Steven L. (Summer 1990), Journal of Educational Statistics, 15 (2): 175–178, doi:10.2307/1164769, JSTOR 1164769CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • The American Statistician, 58 (3): 262, August 2004, JSTOR 27643573CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Amin, Raid W. (November 2004), Technometrics, 46 (4): 491–492, JSTOR 25470909CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  5. Reviews of Survival Distributions:
    • Grimm, H., zbMATH, Zbl 0334.62044CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Lee, P. N. (1976), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C (Applied Statistics), 25 (3): 303, doi:10.2307/2347245, JSTOR 2347245CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Heil, Peter F. (November 1976), Technometrics, 18 (4): 501, doi:10.2307/1268667, JSTOR 1268667CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  6. Reviews of Computer-Aided Multivariate Analysis:
    • Fang, Kai-tai, zbMATH, Zbl 0888.62050CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Martyna, J., zbMATH, Zbl 1053.62066CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Jackson, J. Edward (August 1985), Technometrics, 27 (3): 318–319, doi:10.2307/1269717, JSTOR 1269717CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Nordheim, Erik V. (September 1986), Journal of the American Statistical Association, 81 (395): 862–863, doi:10.2307/2289032, JSTOR 2289032CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Gentle, J. E. (December 1991), Biometrics, 47 (4): 1633–1634, doi:10.2307/2532420, JSTOR 2532420CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • SW (June 1997), Journal of the American Statistical Association, 92 (438): 799, doi:10.2307/2965745, JSTOR 2965745CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Biometrics, 53 (2): 782, June 1997, doi:10.2307/2533984, JSTOR 2533984CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Ziegel, Eric R. (November 2004), Technometrics, 46 (4): 495, JSTOR 25470914CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Ravi, Sreenivasan (2005), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society), 168 (4): 870, JSTOR 3559948CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  7. Reviews of Processing Data:
    • BMS: Bulletin of Sociological Methodology, 37: 70, December 1992, JSTOR 24358777CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Tompkins, Diane L. (August 1993), The American Statistician, 47 (3): 235, doi:10.2307/2684986, JSTOR 2684986CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Biometrics, 49 (3): 959, September 1993, doi:10.2307/2532229, JSTOR 2532229CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Chalmers, C. P. (1994), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series D (The Statistician), 43 (1), doi:10.2307/2348945, JSTOR 2348945CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  8. Review of Basic Statistics:
    • Richardson, Alice (December 2010), International Statistical Review / Revue Internationale de Statistique, 78 (3): 453–454, JSTOR 27919870CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  9. Review of Practical Multivariate Analysis:
    • Technometrics, 54 (1): 105, February 2012, JSTOR 41714848CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  10. ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2020-06-15
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