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{{short description|20th-century American-Canadian statistician}}
'''Jane Forer Gentleman''' is an American and Canadian statistician, the second female president (after [[Agnes M. Herzberg]]) of the [[Statistical Society of Canada]],{{r|ppf}} and the first winner of the Janet L. Norwood Award For Outstanding Achievement By A Woman In The Statistical Sciences.{{r|ppf|norwood}}
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She is the daughter of [[Joseph Forer]], a U.S. attorney known for his progressive stances on segregation and political discrimination, and his wife Florence, a schoolteacher.{{r|florence}}
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She did her undergraduate studies at the [[University of Chicago]], and earned a master's degree there. She completed her Ph.D. in statistics in 1973 at the [[University of Waterloo]].{{r|norwood}} Her dissertation was ''A Statistical Analysis of Mortality Data for Smokers and Non-Smokers, and for Males and Females''.{{r|diss}}
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She stayed at Waterloo as a faculty member, teaching there for 14 years before joining [[Statistics Canada]] for another 9 years.{{r|norwood}}
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At Waterloo, [[Mary E. Thompson]] (later to become president of the Statistical Society of Canada herself) remembers Gentleman as "a fine role model and mentor".
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She was president of the Statistical Society of Canada for 1997–1998.
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In 1999, she moved to the [[National Center for Health Statistics]] in [[Washington, D.C.]].{{r|ppf}}
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Gentleman was elected as a [[Fellow of the American Statistical Association]] in 1983.{{r|fasa}}
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==See also==
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'''Jane F. Gentleman''' (born 1940) is an American-Canadian statistician, the second female president (after [[Agnes M. Herzberg]]) of the [[Statistical Society of Canada]], and the first winner of the [[Janet L. Norwood]] Award For Outstanding Achievement By A Woman In The Statistical Sciences.<ref name=norwood>
{{citation
|url=http://www.soph.uab.edu/awards/norwoodaward/firstaward
|title=First Annual Janet L. Norwood Award
|publisher=University of Alabama School of Public Health
|date=2002
|accessdate=2017-11-27}}</ref><ref name="ppf">{{citation
| last = Thompson | first = Mary E. | author-link = Mary E. Thompson
| last = Thompson | first = Mary E. | author-link = Mary E. Thompson
| editor1-last = Lin | editor1-first = Xihong
| editor1-last = Lin | editor1-first = Xihong
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| publisher = CRC Press
| publisher = CRC Press
| title = Past, Present, and Future of Statistical Science
| title = Past, Present, and Future of Statistical Science
| year = 2014}}</ref>
| year = 2014}}</ref><ref name=Calendar>
{{citation
| title = 2004-2005 Calendar
| publisher = Caucus for Women in Statistics
| url =
| pages =
| date = 2004}}</ref><ref name=UoWalumni>
{{cite journal
| title = Jane Gentleman, PhD'73 Statistics
| journal = Alumni News
| publisher = University of Waterloo
| date = 2005}}</ref><ref>
{{cite journal
| title = Gentleman, Jane Forer
| journal = American Men & Women of Science
| publisher = Bowker
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=lldYAAAAMAAJ
| pages = 81
| date = 1982
| accessdate = 5 July 2019}}</ref><ref name=Gale>
{{cite journal
| title = Gentleman, Jane Forer
| journal = American Men & Women of Science
| publisher = Thomson/Gale
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=lldYAAAAMAAJ
| pages = 83
| date = 2009
| accessdate = 5 July 2019}}</ref>


==Background==
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Jane F. Gentleman was born Jane Forer in 1940 in Washington, DC. She is the daughter of [[Joseph Forer]], a American attorney known for his progressive stances on segregation and political discrimination, and Florence Roberts, a public school teacher and viola player.<ref name=Calendar/><ref name=florence>{{citation|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?n=florence-forer&pid=3346353|title=Florence Forer|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=March 29, 2005|department=Paid death notices|accessdate=2017-11-27}}</ref> She received a BA in Mathematics (1962) and MS in Statistics (1965) from the [[University of Chicago]].<ref>
{{cite journal
| title = Jane Gentleman, PhD'73 Statistics
| journal = The University of Chicago Magazine, Volume 80
| publisher = University of Chicago Alumni Association
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=mBjtAAAAMAAJ
| pages = 58
| date = 2005
| accessdate = 5 July 2019}}</ref> In 1973, she completed ar doctorate in statistics at the [[University of Waterloo]].<ref name=norwood/><ref name=UoWalumni/><ref>
{{cite journal
| title = Doctorates
| journal = Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
| publisher = University of Waterloo
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=JQM5AAAAIAAJ
| pages = 16
| date = 1974
| accessdate = 5 July 2019}}</ref><ref>
{{cite journal
| title = Doctorates
| journal = Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
| publisher = University of Waterloo
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=-roSAQAAMAAJ
| pages = 16
| date = 1975
| accessdate = 5 July 2019}}</ref><ref>
{{cite journal
| title = Department of Statistics
| journal = Notices of the American Mathematical Society
| publisher = American Mathematical Society
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=pNwzAAAAIAAJ
| pages = 307
| date = 1974
| accessdate = 5 July 2019}}</ref> Her dissertation was ''A Statistical Analysis of Mortality Data for Smokers and Nonsmokers, and for Males and Females''.<ref name=diss>{{citation|title=Ph.D.'s in Probability and Statistics Awarded by Universities in Canada: 1973–1977|journal=The Canadian Journal of Statistics|volume=5|issue=2|year=1977|pages=259-262|jstor=3314786}}</ref>

==Career==

In 1962, Gentleman started her career as a statistical programmer at the University of Chicago's Economics department and School of Business. In 1965, Gentleman conducted research as an associate member of technical staff at [[Bell Laboratories]] ([[AT&T]]) in [[Murray Hill, New Jersey]] through 1968. In 1968, Gentleman worked for a year as a statistical programmer in the Department of Mathematics at the Imperial College in London.<ref name=Calendar/>

From 1969 to 1984, Gentleman moved to the Department of Statistics at the University of Waterloo, where she taught statistics and became a tenured Associate Professor. In 1982, she became a senior research statistician for [[Statistics Canada]], which provides the national government with social and economic statistics. In 1991, she became chief of the Health Status and Vital Statistics section and also, starting in 1996, editor-in-chief of Health Reports. In 1997, she became assistant director of Analytic Methods through 1999.<ref name=norwood/><ref name=Calendar/><ref name=UoWalumni/><ref name=SCAN>
{{cite journal
| title = Statistics Canada Well Represented in American Statistical Association
| journal = SCAN
| publisher = American Statistical Association
| date = October 1987
| page = 2}}</ref>

In 1999, Gentleman moved to the [[National Center for Health Statistics]] (NCHS), part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ([[CDC]]) in [[Hyattsville, Maryland]], where she served as director of Health Interview Statistics until her retirement in 2014.<ref name=norwood/><ref name="ppf"/><ref name=Calendar/><ref name=UoWalumni/><ref>
{{cite web
| title = Early Release Program Races to Publish Timely Survey Results
| publisher = Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
| url = https://blogs-origin.cdc.gov/inside-nchs/2013/11/20/early-release-program-races-to-publish-timely-survey-results/
| date = 20 November 2013
| accessdate = 5 July 2019}}</ref>

From 1983 to 1985, Gentleman served as president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics. From 1988 to 1990, she served as vice president of the American Statistical Association. From 1993-1995, she served as council member of the International Statistical Institute. From 1996 to 1998, she served as president of the Statistical Society of Canada. From 2002 to 2004, she served again as vice president of the American Statistical Association.<ref name=Calendar/><ref name=UoWalumni/><ref name=SCAN/>

Gentleman has served as associate editor and a section editor for ''The American Statistician'', editorial board member and a section co-editor for ''The Canadian Journal of Statistics'', editorial board member for ''Survey Methodology'', and editor-in-chief of ''Health Reports''.<ref name=Calendar/>

In addition, Gentleman had a cross-appointment with the University of Waterloo’s Department of Computer Science (1973-1977), served as a statistical consultant for the Ontario Ministry of Labour (1979-1983), and was a visiting associate professor at Stanford University's Department of Statistics (summer 1981).{{citation needed}}

==Awards==

In 2002, Gentleman received the first-ever "[[Janet L. Norwood]] Award For Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Statistical Sciences."<ref name=norwood/>

* 1983: [[Fellow of the American Statistical Association]]<ref name=Calendar/><ref name=UoWalumni/><ref name=SCAN/><ref name=fasa>
{{citation
|url=http://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/ASA-Fellows-list.aspx
|title=ASA Fellows list
|publisher=American Statistical Association
|date=
|accessdate=2017-11-27}}</ref>
* 1990: Member of the International Statistics Institute<ref name=Calendar/><ref name=UoWalumni/>
* 2002: Janet L. Norwood Award<ref name=Calendar/><ref name=UoWalumni/><ref>
{{cite web
|title=Janet L. Norwood Award
|publisher=University of Alabama at Birmingham
|url=https://www.soph.uab.edu/?q=awards/norwoodaward
|date=
|accessdate=2017-11-27}}</ref><ref>
{{cite web
|title=Call for Nominations the Eighteenth Annual Janet L. Norwood Award
|publisher=University of Alabama at Birmingham
|url=https://www.soph.uab.edu/awards/norwoodaward/nominations
|date=2019
|accessdate=2017-11-27}}</ref>
* 2005: Faculty of Mathematics Alumni Achievement Medal, University of Waterloo

==Personal==

In 1959, Jane Forer married Bernard Munk; they had one child. In 1967, she married W. Morven Gentleman; they had one child.<ref name=florence/>

At Waterloo, [[Mary E. Thompson]] (later, also president of the Statistical Society of Canada) has called Gentleman "a fine role model and mentor."<ref name="ppf"/>

==Works==

Gentleman has written or contributed to more than 180 articles, edited a book, and contributed to five other books, as well as reviewed many works. Selected works include:

'''Doctoral Thesis:'''
* ''A Statistical Analysis of Mortality Data for Smokers and Nonsmokers and for Males and Females'' (1973)<ref>
{{cite book
| last = Gentleman
| first = J.F.
| date = 1973
| title = A Statistical Analysis of Mortality Data for Smokers and Nonsmokers and for Males and Females
| publisher = University of Waterloo}}</ref>

'''Books edited:'''
* ''Case Studies in Data Analysis'' (1994)<ref>
{{cite book
| editor1 = Jane F. Gentleman
| editor2 = G.A. Whitmore
| title = Case Studies in Data Analysis
| publisher = Springer-Verlag
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=hZ0ACAAAQBAJ
| date = 1994
| accessdate = 5 July 2019}}</ref>

'''Books and Special Issues edited or contributed to:'''

* ''Proc. of Computer Science and Statistics'', 12th Annual Symposium on the Interface (1979)
* ''A Special Issue of Papers Presenting Current Statistical Work at Statistics Canada'' (1988)
* ''The Oxford Dictionary of Statistical Terms, Sixth Edition'' (2003)
* ''Statistical Journal of the International Association for Official Statistics'', Volume 28, Numbers 1-2 (2012)
* ''Proceedings of the National Center for Health Statistics' June 25, 2007m conference commemorating the National Health Interview Survey’s 50th anniversary'' (2008, 2015)

'''Articles written or contributed to:'''

* "Detecting Outliers: II. Supplementing the Direct Analysis of Residuals," ''Biometrics'' (1975)<ref>
{{cite journal
| first1 = J.F.
| last1 = Gentleman
| first2 = M.B.
| last2 = Wilk
| date = 1975
| title = Detecting Outliers: II. Supplementing the Direct Analysis of Residuals
| journal = Biometrics
| volume = 31
| pages = 387-410}}</ref>
* "The Distribution of the Frequency of Occurrence of Nucleotide Subsequences, Based on Their Overlap Capability," ''Biometrics'' (1989)<ref>
{{cite journal
| last1 = Gentleman
| first1 = Jane F.
| last2 = Mullin
| first2 = Ronald C
| date = 1989
| title = The Distribution of the Frequency of Occurrence of Nucleotide Subsequences, Based on Their Overlap Capability
| journal = Biometrics
| volume = 45
| pages = 35-52}}</ref>
* "Estimation of the Mutagenic Potency of Environmental Chemicals Using Short-Term Bioassay. Case Study in Data Analysis, No. 8," ''Canadian Journal of Statistics'' (1993) (winner of 1993 ''Canadian Journal of Statistics'' Award)<ref>
{{cite journal
| last1 = Gentleman
| first1 = Jane F.
| last2 = Whitmore
| first2 = G.A.
| date = 1993
| title = Estimation of the Mutagenic Potency of Environmental Chemicals Using Short-Term Bioassay. Case Study in Data Analysis, No. 8
| journal = Canadian Journal of Statistics
| volume = 21
| pages = 421-465}}</ref>
* "Age Differences in Married and Divorcing Couples in Canada," ''Health Reports'' (1994)<ref>
{{cite journal
| last1 = Gentleman
| first1 = Jane F.
| last2 = Park
| first2 = Evelyn
| date = 1994
| title = Age Differences in Married and Divorcing Couples in Canada
| journal = Health Reports
| volume = 6(2)
| pages = 225-240}}</ref>
* "Surgical Rates in Subprovincial Areas Across Canada: Rankings of 39 Procedures in Order of Variation," ''Canadian Journal of Surgery'' (1996)<ref>
{{cite journal
| last1 = Gentleman
| first1 = Jane F.
| last2 = Vayda
| first2 = Eugene
| last3 = Parsons
| first3 = Greg F.
| last4 = Walsh
| first4 = Michael N.
| date = 1996
| title = Surgical Rates in Subprovincial Areas Across Canada: Rankings of 39 Procedures in Order of Variation
| journal = Canadian Journal of Surgery
| volume = 39(5)
| pages = 361-367}}</ref>
* "On Judging the Significance of Differences by Examining the Overlap Between Confidence Intervals," ''The American Statistician'' (2001)<ref>
{{cite journal
| last1 = Schenker
| first1 = Nathaniel
| last2 = Gentleman
| first2 = Jane F.
| date = 2001
| title = On Judging the Significance of Differences by Examining the Overlap Between Confidence Intervals
| journal = The American Statistician
| volume = 55(3)
| pages = 182-186}}</ref>
* "The National Health Interview Survey: 50 Years and Going Strong," ''Chance'' (2008)<ref>
{{cite journal
| last1 = Gentleman
| first1 = Jane F.
| date = 2008
| title = The National Health Interview Survey: 50 Years and Going Strong
| journal = Chance
| volume = 2(2)
| pages = 40-45
| publisher = Springer and American Statistical Association}}</ref>
* Editorial on Reshaping Health Statistics, ''Statistical Journal of the International Association for Official Statistics'' (2012)<ref>
{{cite journal
| last = Gentleman
| first = Jane F.
| date = 2012
| title = Editorial on Reshaping Health Statistics
| journal = Statistical Journal of the International Association for Official Statistics
| publisher = International Statistical Institute
| volume = 28 (1-2))}}</ref>
* "Addressing Disclosure Concerns and Analysis Demands in a Real-Time Online Analytic System," ''Journal of Official Statistics'' (2013)<ref>
{{cite journal
| last1 = Krenzke
| first1 = Tom
| last2 = Gentleman
| first2 = Jane F.
| last3 = Li
| first3 = Jane
| last4 = Moriarity
| first4 = Chris
| date = 2013
| title = Addressing Disclosure Concerns and Analysis Demands in a Real-Time Online Analytic System
| journal = Journal of Official Statistics
| volume = 29(1
| pages = 99-124}}</ref>

==See also==

* [[Joseph Forer]]
* [[Janet L. Norwood]]
* [[Mary E. Thompson]]
* [[Statistical Society of Canada]]
* [[University of Waterloo]]
* [[Statistics Canada]]
* [[National Center for Health Statistics]]

==References==

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Jane F. Gentleman
Born
Jane Forer

1940
Washington, DC, USA
CitizenshipAmerican, Canadian
OccupationStatistician
Years active1962-2015
ParentJoseph Forer
AwardsJanet L. Norwood Award, University of Waterloo Faculty of Math Alumni Achievement Medal
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Chicago
Alma materUniversity of Waterloo
ThesisA Statistical Analysis of Mortality Data for Smokers and Nonsmokers, and for Males and Females (1973)
Academic work
DisciplineStatistician
Sub-disciplineData analysis and health surveys
InstitutionsBell Laboratories, University of Waterloo, Statistics Canada, National Center for Health Statistics

Jane F. Gentleman (born 1940) is an American-Canadian statistician, the second female president (after Agnes M. Herzberg) of the Statistical Society of Canada, and the first winner of the Janet L. Norwood Award For Outstanding Achievement By A Woman In The Statistical Sciences.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Background

Jane F. Gentleman was born Jane Forer in 1940 in Washington, DC. She is the daughter of Joseph Forer, a American attorney known for his progressive stances on segregation and political discrimination, and Florence Roberts, a public school teacher and viola player.[3][7] She received a BA in Mathematics (1962) and MS in Statistics (1965) from the University of Chicago.[8] In 1973, she completed ar doctorate in statistics at the University of Waterloo.[1][4][9][10][11] Her dissertation was A Statistical Analysis of Mortality Data for Smokers and Nonsmokers, and for Males and Females.[12]

Career

In 1962, Gentleman started her career as a statistical programmer at the University of Chicago's Economics department and School of Business. In 1965, Gentleman conducted research as an associate member of technical staff at Bell Laboratories (AT&T) in Murray Hill, New Jersey through 1968. In 1968, Gentleman worked for a year as a statistical programmer in the Department of Mathematics at the Imperial College in London.[3]

From 1969 to 1984, Gentleman moved to the Department of Statistics at the University of Waterloo, where she taught statistics and became a tenured Associate Professor. In 1982, she became a senior research statistician for Statistics Canada, which provides the national government with social and economic statistics. In 1991, she became chief of the Health Status and Vital Statistics section and also, starting in 1996, editor-in-chief of Health Reports. In 1997, she became assistant director of Analytic Methods through 1999.[1][3][4][13]

In 1999, Gentleman moved to the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Hyattsville, Maryland, where she served as director of Health Interview Statistics until her retirement in 2014.[1][2][3][4][14]

From 1983 to 1985, Gentleman served as president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics. From 1988 to 1990, she served as vice president of the American Statistical Association. From 1993-1995, she served as council member of the International Statistical Institute. From 1996 to 1998, she served as president of the Statistical Society of Canada. From 2002 to 2004, she served again as vice president of the American Statistical Association.[3][4][13]

Gentleman has served as associate editor and a section editor for The American Statistician, editorial board member and a section co-editor for The Canadian Journal of Statistics, editorial board member for Survey Methodology, and editor-in-chief of Health Reports.[3]

In addition, Gentleman had a cross-appointment with the University of Waterloo’s Department of Computer Science (1973-1977), served as a statistical consultant for the Ontario Ministry of Labour (1979-1983), and was a visiting associate professor at Stanford University's Department of Statistics (summer 1981).[citation needed]

Awards

In 2002, Gentleman received the first-ever "Janet L. Norwood Award For Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Statistical Sciences."[1]

Personal

In 1959, Jane Forer married Bernard Munk; they had one child. In 1967, she married W. Morven Gentleman; they had one child.[7]

At Waterloo, Mary E. Thompson (later, also president of the Statistical Society of Canada) has called Gentleman "a fine role model and mentor."[2]

Works

Gentleman has written or contributed to more than 180 articles, edited a book, and contributed to five other books, as well as reviewed many works. Selected works include:

Doctoral Thesis:

  • A Statistical Analysis of Mortality Data for Smokers and Nonsmokers and for Males and Females (1973)[18]

Books edited:

  • Case Studies in Data Analysis (1994)[19]

Books and Special Issues edited or contributed to:

  • Proc. of Computer Science and Statistics, 12th Annual Symposium on the Interface (1979)
  • A Special Issue of Papers Presenting Current Statistical Work at Statistics Canada (1988)
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Statistical Terms, Sixth Edition (2003)
  • Statistical Journal of the International Association for Official Statistics, Volume 28, Numbers 1-2 (2012)
  • Proceedings of the National Center for Health Statistics' June 25, 2007m conference commemorating the National Health Interview Survey’s 50th anniversary (2008, 2015)

Articles written or contributed to:

  • "Detecting Outliers: II. Supplementing the Direct Analysis of Residuals," Biometrics (1975)[20]
  • "The Distribution of the Frequency of Occurrence of Nucleotide Subsequences, Based on Their Overlap Capability," Biometrics (1989)[21]
  • "Estimation of the Mutagenic Potency of Environmental Chemicals Using Short-Term Bioassay. Case Study in Data Analysis, No. 8," Canadian Journal of Statistics (1993) (winner of 1993 Canadian Journal of Statistics Award)[22]
  • "Age Differences in Married and Divorcing Couples in Canada," Health Reports (1994)[23]
  • "Surgical Rates in Subprovincial Areas Across Canada: Rankings of 39 Procedures in Order of Variation," Canadian Journal of Surgery (1996)[24]
  • "On Judging the Significance of Differences by Examining the Overlap Between Confidence Intervals," The American Statistician (2001)[25]
  • "The National Health Interview Survey: 50 Years and Going Strong," Chance (2008)[26]
  • Editorial on Reshaping Health Statistics, Statistical Journal of the International Association for Official Statistics (2012)[27]
  • "Addressing Disclosure Concerns and Analysis Demands in a Real-Time Online Analytic System," Journal of Official Statistics (2013)[28]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e First Annual Janet L. Norwood Award, University of Alabama School of Public Health, 2002, retrieved 2017-11-27
  2. ^ a b c Thompson, Mary E. (2014), "Reflections on women in statistics in Canada", in Lin, Xihong; Genest, Christian; Banks, David L.; Molenberghs, Geert; Scott, David W.; Wang, Jane-Ling (eds.), Past, Present, and Future of Statistical Science, CRC Press, pp. 203–216, ISBN 9781482204988
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j 2004-2005 Calendar, Caucus for Women in Statistics, 2004
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h "Jane Gentleman, PhD'73 Statistics". Alumni News. University of Waterloo. 2005.
  5. ^ "Gentleman, Jane Forer". American Men & Women of Science. Bowker: 81. 1982. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  6. ^ "Gentleman, Jane Forer". American Men & Women of Science. Thomson/Gale: 83. 2009. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  7. ^ a b "Florence Forer", Paid death notices, The Washington Post, March 29, 2005, retrieved 2017-11-27
  8. ^ "Jane Gentleman, PhD'73 Statistics". The University of Chicago Magazine, Volume 80. University of Chicago Alumni Association: 58. 2005. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  9. ^ "Doctorates". Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. University of Waterloo: 16. 1974. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  10. ^ "Doctorates". Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. University of Waterloo: 16. 1975. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  11. ^ "Department of Statistics". Notices of the American Mathematical Society. American Mathematical Society: 307. 1974. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  12. ^ "Ph.D.'s in Probability and Statistics Awarded by Universities in Canada: 1973–1977", The Canadian Journal of Statistics, 5 (2): 259–262, 1977, JSTOR 3314786
  13. ^ a b c "Statistics Canada Well Represented in American Statistical Association". SCAN. American Statistical Association: 2. October 1987.
  14. ^ "Early Release Program Races to Publish Timely Survey Results". Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 20 November 2013. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  15. ^ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2017-11-27
  16. ^ "Janet L. Norwood Award". University of Alabama at Birmingham. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
  17. ^ "Call for Nominations the Eighteenth Annual Janet L. Norwood Award". University of Alabama at Birmingham. 2019. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
  18. ^ Gentleman, J.F. (1973). A Statistical Analysis of Mortality Data for Smokers and Nonsmokers and for Males and Females. University of Waterloo.
  19. ^ Jane F. Gentleman; G.A. Whitmore, eds. (1994). Case Studies in Data Analysis. Springer-Verlag. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  20. ^ Gentleman, J.F.; Wilk, M.B. (1975). "Detecting Outliers: II. Supplementing the Direct Analysis of Residuals". Biometrics. 31: 387–410.
  21. ^ Gentleman, Jane F.; Mullin, Ronald C (1989). "The Distribution of the Frequency of Occurrence of Nucleotide Subsequences, Based on Their Overlap Capability". Biometrics. 45: 35–52.
  22. ^ Gentleman, Jane F.; Whitmore, G.A. (1993). "Estimation of the Mutagenic Potency of Environmental Chemicals Using Short-Term Bioassay. Case Study in Data Analysis, No. 8". Canadian Journal of Statistics. 21: 421–465.
  23. ^ Gentleman, Jane F.; Park, Evelyn (1994). "Age Differences in Married and Divorcing Couples in Canada". Health Reports. 6(2): 225–240.
  24. ^ Gentleman, Jane F.; Vayda, Eugene; Parsons, Greg F.; Walsh, Michael N. (1996). "Surgical Rates in Subprovincial Areas Across Canada: Rankings of 39 Procedures in Order of Variation". Canadian Journal of Surgery. 39(5): 361–367.
  25. ^ Schenker, Nathaniel; Gentleman, Jane F. (2001). "On Judging the Significance of Differences by Examining the Overlap Between Confidence Intervals". The American Statistician. 55(3): 182–186.
  26. ^ Gentleman, Jane F. (2008). "The National Health Interview Survey: 50 Years and Going Strong". Chance. 2(2). Springer and American Statistical Association: 40–45.
  27. ^ Gentleman, Jane F. (2012). "Editorial on Reshaping Health Statistics". Statistical Journal of the International Association for Official Statistics. 28 (1-2)). International Statistical Institute.
  28. ^ Krenzke, Tom; Gentleman, Jane F.; Li, Jane; Moriarity, Chris (2013). "Addressing Disclosure Concerns and Analysis Demands in a Real-Time Online Analytic System". Journal of Official Statistics. 29(1: 99–124.
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