Biography:Katherine Wallman
Katherine Wallman | |
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| Chief Statistician of the United States | |
| In office November 1992 – January 3, 2017 | |
| President | George H. W. Bush Bill Clinton George W. Bush Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Hermann Habermann |
| Succeeded by | Nancy Potok |
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| Born | New Jersey, U.S. |
| Education | Wellesley College (BA) |
Katherine K. Wallman was an American statistician who served as the Chief Statistician of the United States from 1992 to 2017.[1] In that role at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, she provided coordination, guidance, and oversight for the Federal Statistical System of the United States.[2] She died in January, 2024.
In 1983 Wallman was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[3] She was the president of the American Statistical Association in 1992,[4] and Chairwoman of the United Nations Statistical Commission in 2004-5.[1] She has made several appearances on C-SPAN .[5]
Wallman organized efforts to pass and implement the 2002 CIPSEA law which standardized confidentiality-protection and information-sharing by U.S. federal government statistical agencies.[6]
Works
- Wallman, Katherine K; Harris-Kojetin, Brian A; U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Implementing the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act of 2002, https://www.amstat.org/sections/srms/Proceedings/y2004/Files/Jsm2004-000643.pdf, retrieved 2013-12-05
See also
- List of presidents of the American Statistical Association
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Brief Bio: Katherine K. Wallman, Chief Statistician, U.S. Office of Management and Budget", UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistics Division, http://unstats.un.org/unsd/statcom/statcom_seminar/bio/k_wallman.pdf, retrieved 2013-12-05
- ↑ Wallman, Katherine K.. "Statistical Programs of the United States Government". Office of Management and Budget. https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/pcast-wallman.pdf.
- ↑ View/Search Fellows of the ASA , accessed 2016-10-22.
- ↑ "Katherine K. Wallman's biosketch". The Albany Chapter of The American Statistical Association. http://acasa.firstduty.org/archive/confweb99/abstract/kathyw.htm.
- ↑ "Katherine Wallman - Bio". C-SPAN Video Library. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/katherinewallman.
- ↑ CIPSEA at 15 Years: Benefits to Federal Statistics—A Seminar in Honor of Katherine K. Wallman at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
External links
- "Katherine Wallman - Bio". C-SPAN Video Library. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/katherinewallman.
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