Biography:Cleo Youtz

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Short description: American statistician

Cleo S. Youtz (1909–2005) was an American statistician who worked for many years at Harvard University as the research assistant, collaborator, computer, and coauthor of Frederick Mosteller,[1] as manager of Mosteller's other staff,[2] and as the historian of the Harvard statistics department.[1] Youtz was hired by Mosteller in 1957 when he was appointed chair of the newly formed department,[3] and continued working with Mosteller after he retired from teaching in 1987, until he finally left Harvard in 2003.[4]

Selected publications

Although Mosteller did not list Youtz as a coauthor on all of his publications, she was listed on many, including:

  • Mosteller, Frederick; Youtz, Cleo (1961), "Tables of the Freeman–Tukey transformations for the binomial and Poisson distributions", Biometrika 48: 433–440, doi:10.1093/biomet/48.3-4.433 
  • Mosteller, Frederick; Siegel, Andrew F.; Trapido, Edward; Youtz, Cleo (August 1981), "Eye fitting straight lines", The American Statistician 35 (3): 150–152, doi:10.1080/00031305.1981.10479335 
  • "How medical professionals evaluate expressions of probability", New England Journal of Medicine 315 (12): 740–744, September 1986, doi:10.1056/nejm198609183151206 
  • Reagan, Robert T.; Mosteller, Frederick; Youtz, Cleo (1989), "Quantitative meanings of verbal probability expressions", Journal of Applied Psychology 74 (3): 433–442, doi:10.1037/0021-9010.74.3.433 
  • Mosteller, Frederick; Youtz, Cleo (1990), "Quantifying probabilistic expressions", Statistical Science 5 (1): 2–34 

One of the few publications crediting her as a contributor but not written with Mosteller was a festschrift for Mosteller's 70th birthday, A Statistical Model: Frederick Mosteller's Contributions to Statistics, Science, and Public Policy (1990),[5] which listed her as a collaborator on its title page and stated that "but for her modesty" she should have been listed as one of its editors.[6]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Meng, Xiao-Li (2012), "55 Years of Harvard Statistics: Stories, Snapshots, and Statistics", in Agresti, Alan; Meng, Xiao-Li, Strength in Numbers: The Rising of Academic Statistics Departments in the U. S., Springer, pp. 91–109, doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-3649-2_8, ISBN 9781461436492 ; see especially p. 92.
  2. ↑ Mosteller, Frederick (2010), The Pleasures of Statistics: The Autobiography of Frederick Mosteller, Springer, New York, p. 53, doi:10.1007/978-0-387-77956-0, ISBN 978-0-387-77955-3 
  3. ↑ Petrosino, Anthony (2006), "Charles Frederick [Fred Mosteller (1916-2006)"], JLL Bulletin, https://www.jameslindlibrary.org/articles/charles-frederick-fred-mosteller-1916-2006/ 
  4. ↑ Frederick Mosteller — Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences
  5. ↑ Moses, Lincoln E. (March 1992), "Review of A Statistical Model", Contemporary Sociology 21 (2): 288–289, doi:10.2307/2075520 
  6. ↑ Fienberg, S. E.; Hoaglin, D. C.; Kruskal, W. H. (1990), A Statistical Model: Frederick Mosteller's Contributions to Statistics, Science, and Public Policy, Springer Series in Statistics, Springer-Verlag, New York, p. viii, doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-3384-8, ISBN 0-387-97223-4 



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