Virginia A. Clark

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Virginia Ann Clark
Born1928 (1928)
Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S.
DiedJanuary 24, 2018(2018-01-24) (aged 89–90)
Sequim, Washington, U.S.
Alma mater
Scientific career
Fields
  • Statistican
  • educator
Institutions

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[edit]

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[edit]

Clark is the coauthor of:

  • Applied Statistics: Analysis of Variance and Regression (with Olive Jean Dunn, 1974; 3rd ed. with Ruth 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[edit]

Clark became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1974.[10]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2020-06-15
  2. ^ a b c "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:
  5. ^ Reviews of Survival Distributions:
  6. ^ Reviews of Computer-Aided Multivariate Analysis:
  7. ^ Reviews of Processing Data:
  8. ^ Review of Basic Statistics:
    • Richardson, Alice (December 2010), International Statistical Review / Revue Internationale de Statistique, 78 (3): 453–454, JSTOR 27919870{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  9. ^ Review of Practical Multivariate Analysis:
  10. ^ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2020-06-15
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