Biography:Polly Feigl
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Short description: American biostatistician
Polly Feigl is an American biostatistician known for her work on survival distributions of patients with varying exponentially distributed survival rates and on cancer clinical trials. She is a professor emerita of biostatistics at the University of Washington.[1]
Education and career
Feigl majored in mathematics at the University of Chicago and earned a master's degree and Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Minnesota.[1]
Book
Feigl is the coauthor, with Johannes Ipsen, of Bancroft's Introduction to Biostatistics (2nd edition, Harper and Row, 1971), a revised edition of the widely used 1957 textbook by Huldah Bancroft.[2]
Recognition
Feigl was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1979.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Polly Feigl, University of Washington Biostatistics, https://www.biostat.washington.edu/people/polly-feigl, retrieved 2021-01-03
- ↑ Reviews of Bancroft's Introduction to Biostatistics:
- Grimshaw, J. J. (March 1972), "none", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series D 21 (1): 96–97, doi:10.2307/2986867
- Hill, G. B. (October 9, 1971), "Statistics For medical students", The British Medical Journal 4 (5779): 120, doi:10.1136/bmj.4.5779.120-b
- Hills, Michael (1972), "none", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C 21 (2): 214–215, doi:10.2307/2346504
- Simpson, J. A. (April 1971), "none", Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry 34 (2): 208, doi:10.1136/jnnp.34.2.208-a
- ↑ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, https://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/ASA-Fellows-list.aspx, retrieved 2021-01-03
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