Biography:Katherine Halvorsen

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Short description: American statistician

Katherine Taylor Halvorsen is an American statistician and statistics educator whose research topics have included statistical significance for contingency tables,[1] and the conditional logistic regression method for analysis of multiple risk factors in case–control studies.[2] She was co-author of four editions of Mathematics Education in the United States, a quadrennial review publication of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics,[3] and serves on the Mathematical Sciences Academic Advisory Committee of the College Board.[4]

Education and career

Halvorsen is a graduate of the University of Michigan. After earning master's degrees from Boston University[5] and in 1978, the University of Washington,[6] she completed her Ph.D. in biostatistics in 1984 at the Harvard School of Public Health, with the dissertation Estimating Population Parameters Using Information from Several Independent Sources supervised by Frederick Mosteller.[7][8] She is a professor emerita of mathematics and statistics at Smith College,[5] where she was founding director of the Five College Statistics Program in 2011.[9]

Recognition

She was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2008.[6][10]

References

  1. Pagano, Marcello; Halvorsen, Katherine Taylor (1981), "An algorithm for finding the exact significance levels of [math]\displaystyle{ r\times c }[/math] contingency tables", Journal of the American Statistical Association 76 (376): 931–934, doi:10.2307/2287590 
  2. Breslow, N. E.; Day, N. E.; Halvorsen, K. T.; Prentice, R. L.; Sabai, C. (October 1978), "Estimation of multiple relative risk functions in matched case-control studies", American Journal of Epidemiology 108 (4): 299–307, doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a112623, PMID 727199 
  3. Reviews of Mathematics Education in the United States, 2008: Martha Baklarz Croley, Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, JSTOR 41182721; Emily Hendricks, Teaching Children Mathematics, JSTOR 41199324; Barry Shealy, The Mathematics Teacher, JSTOR 20876524. 2016: Louis Freese, The Mathematics Teacher, doi:10.5951/mathteacher.111.1.0075, JSTOR 10.5951/mathteacher.111.1.0075; Tara Russo, Teaching Children Mathematics, doi:10.5951/teacchilmath.24.1.0060, JSTOR 10.5951/teacchilmath.24.1.0060; Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, doi:10.5951/mathteacmiddscho.22.7.0445, JSTOR 10.5951/mathteacmiddscho.22.7.0445
  4. Mathematical Sciences Academic Advisory Committee, College Board, https://www.collegeboard.org/about/governance/councils-advisory/math-sciences, retrieved 2021-05-16 
  5. 5.0 5.1 "Katherine Halvorsen, Professor Emerita of Mathematics & Statistics", Faculty (Smith College), https://www.smith.edu/academics/faculty/katherine-halvorsen, retrieved 2021-05-16 
  6. 6.0 6.1 Alumni News, University of Washington School of Public Health, April 2009, http://www.washington.edu/alumni/partnerships/publichealth/200904/alumni.html, retrieved 2021-05-16 
  7. Katherine Halvorsen at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  8. Biostatistics dissertations, Harvard School of Public Health, https://content.sph.harvard.edu/biostats/publications/dissertations/, retrieved 2021-05-16 
  9. Five College Statistics Program, Five College Consortium, https://www.fivecolleges.edu/statistics, retrieved 2021-05-16 
  10. ASA Fellows, Caucus for Women in Statistics, 29 March 2016, https://cwstat.org/about/people/asa-fellows/, retrieved 2021-05-16