Biography:Virginia Thompson Holran

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Short description: American statistician

Virginia Thompson Holran (April 13, 1913 – July 1980)[1] was an American statistician who became director of statistics and research for the Institute of Life Insurance in 1944.[2] There, she was also the editor for the annual Life Insurance Fact Book.[3]

In 1964 she was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association for "services to the American Statistical Association, especially for the development of corporate memberships".[4]

In her retirement in the 1960s and 1970s she served on the board of education of Bridgeport, Connecticut.[5]

References

  1. "Virginia Holran", Social Security Death Index, https://www.fold3.com/record/61511647-virginia-holran, retrieved 2019-01-19 
  2. Johnson, Holgar J.; Bowen, Croswell (1967), Speaking with One Voice, Appleton-Century-Crofts, p. 170, https://books.google.com/books?id=Dpo1AQAAIAAJ 
  3. Penn, William S. (April 1967), "Marketing Abstracts", Journal of Marketing 31 (2): 72–89, doi:10.1177/002224296703100215 
  4. "New ASA Fellows – 1964", The American Statistician 19 (1): 36–37, February 1965, doi:10.1080/00031305.1965.10480393 
  5. Connecticut State Registry and Manual, State of Connecticut, 1976, p. 357, https://archive.org/details/regist76conn/page/356