Huldah Bancroft
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Huldah Bancroft (died September 25, 1966)[1] was an American biostatistician at Tulane University, known for her textbook on biostatistics and for her research on tropical infectious diseases including typhoid fever and leprosy.
Education and career
[edit]Bancroft graduated from the University of Michigan in 1915;[2] she earned a master's degree at Columbia University and, in 1944, a Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University,[3] where she had been working as an assistant professor of biometrics. In 1947 she moved from Case to Tulane University,[4] where she was appointed as an associate professor in the newly founded Department of Tropical Diseases and Public Health.[2] By 1961 she had retired.[5]
Book
[edit]She published her book Introduction to Biostatistics with Harper & Row in 1957.[6] A second edition, revised by Johannes Ipsen and Polly Feigl, was published as Bancroft's Introduction to Biostatistics in 1971.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Deaths", The Michigan Alumnus, vol. 63, no. 7, p. 30, March 1976
- ^ a b "News by classes", The Michigan Alumnus, vol. 54, p. 133, November 15, 1947
- ^ Commencement, Case Western Reserve University, 1944 – via Docplayer.net
- ^ "News about Members", The American Statistician, 1 (2): 15–16, October 1947, doi:10.1080/00031305.1947.10501554
- ^ Fisher, Jr., Edgar J. (January 1961), "Public Health Reports", Public Health Reports, 76 (1 ed.): 73–77, PMC 1929591, PMID 13699946,
Dr. Huldah Bancroft, biostatistician, retired from Tulane Medical School, analyzed the data and prepared the report for publication
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Reviews of Introduction to Biostatistics:
- The Quarterly Review of Biology, 34 (4): 339, December 1959, JSTOR 2815926
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Brožek, Josef (December 1958), "Book notices", Human Biology, 30 (4): 352–356, JSTOR 41449219
- Lerner, Monroe (March 1958), "Introduction to Biostatistics", American Journal of Public Health and the Nation's Health, 48 (3): 399, doi:10.2105/ajph.48.3.399-a
- A.J.R. (May 1958), "Review", South African Medical Journal: 531
- Weiss, Francis Joseph (October 10, 1958), Science, New Series, 128 (3328): 835, doi:10.1126/science.128.3328.832, JSTOR 1754925
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- The Quarterly Review of Biology, 34 (4): 339, December 1959, JSTOR 2815926
- ^ Reviews of Bancroft's Introduction to Biostatistics:
- Grimshaw, J. J. (March 1972), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series D, 21 (1): 96–97, doi:10.2307/2986867, JSTOR 2986867
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - 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, JSTOR 25416195, PMC 2599140, S2CID 52331534
- Hills, Michael (1972), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C, 21 (2): 214–215, doi:10.2307/2346504, JSTOR 2346504
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Simpson, J. A. (April 1971), Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, vol. 34 (2 ed.), p. 208, doi:10.1136/jnnp.34.2.208-a, PMC 493764
- Grimshaw, J. J. (March 1972), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series D, 21 (1): 96–97, doi:10.2307/2986867, JSTOR 2986867