Biography:Mary Mulry
Mary Helen Mulry (also published as Mary Mulry-Liggan) is an American demographic statistician who works for the United States Census Bureau and has published scholarly works about census accuracy.[1]
Education and career
Mulry majored in mathematics at Texas Christian University, graduating in 1972 as the university's top mathematics student.[1][2] She went to Indiana University Bloomington for graduate study in mathematics, earning a master's degree in mathematics in 1975, a second master's degree in statistics in 1977, and a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1978.[1] Her dissertation, Equivariant [math]\displaystyle{ \mathbb{Z}_p }[/math]-Extension Properties, concerned equivariant topology and was supervised by Jan Jaworowski.[3][4]
Since completing her doctorate, Mulry has alternated between working for industry (at the System Planning Corporation, Lockheed Martin, M/A/R/C Research, and as an independent consultant) and for the United States Census Bureau (1980–1983, 1984–1997, and 2001–present). Since 2001 she has been a principal researcher for the Census Bureau, in the Center for Statistical Research and Methodology.[1]
Mulry chaired the methodology section of the Washington Statistical Society in 1986–1987.[5] She was vice president of the American Statistical Association from 2011 to 2013.
Recognition
Mulry was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1994.[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Mary H. Mulry", Our researchers (United States Census Bureau), https://www.census.gov/research/researchers/profile.php?cv_sub=alpha&cv_profile=3742, retrieved 2021-01-26
- ↑ "Senior Scholars Named At Honors Day Ceremonies", The Daily Skiff (Texas Christian University): 7, April 25, 1972, https://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/15481
- ↑ Mulry, Mary Helen (1978), Equivariant [math]\displaystyle{ \mathbb{Z}_p }[/math]-Extension Properties, Indiana University, ProQuest 302903139
- ↑ Mary Mulry at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Brock, Dwight B. (2019), "Chairpersons of Methodology Section", Washington Statistical Society History Through August, 2019, Washington Statistical Society, p. 22, http://www.washstat.org/documents/19book.pdf
- ↑ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, https://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/ASA-Fellows-list.aspx, retrieved 2021-01-26
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