Gertrude Mary Cox

Gertrude Mary Cox ( born January 13, 1900 in Dayton (Iowa), Webster County ( Iowa), † October 17, 1978 in Durham (North Carolina)) was an American statistician, known for his work on experimental design.

Cox wanted to become a deaconess of the Methodist, took courses in social work and spent two years as house mother for sixteen orphans, but came in Ames at Iowa State College on the run there breeding research for agriculture, the statistical method required, for statistics. In 1931 she received her master's degree in statistics at George Snedecor on statistical analysis of the success of teachers compared to the national students. She deepened her studies in the direction of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, but took off the Promotion an offer of her old teacher George Snedecor on to work at the newly founded Statistical Lab of Iowa State College. She has published with Snedecor and supported him in his book on statistical design of experiments. In 1939, she was Assistant Research Professor of Statistics. In 1940, she was professor and head of the newly founded Department of Experimental Statistics at the Faculty of Agriculture at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.

Her book on experimental designs with William Cochran was a standard work.

She was the first woman who was admitted to the International Statistical Institute (1949) and 1956-1959 President of the American Statistical Association, who. Since 1944 belonged to (as well as the Institute of Mathematical Statistics ) 1945 to 1955 she was editor of Biometrics and 1947 she was a founding member of the Biometrics Society, an honorary member in 1964 and was its president it was in 1968/69. In 1954 she was made an honorary member of the Société Adolphe Quetelet in Brussels. In 1958 she was made an honorary Doctor of Iowa State College. In 1975, she was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences and in 1957 she was made an honorary member of the Royal Statistical Society. 1970 Cox Hall North Carolina State University was named after her.

Her hobbies included batik and orchids.

Writings

• With William Cochran experimental designs, 1950, Wiley, 2nd edition 1996