Polly Feigl is an American biostatistician known for her work on survival distributions of patients with varying exponentially distributed survival rates, and on clinical trials for cancer. 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 has 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 a widely used 1957 textbook by Huldah Bancroft.[2]
Recognition
Fiegl was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1979.[3]
References
- ^ a b Polly Feigl, University of Washington Biostatistics, retrieved 2021-01-03
- ^ 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
{{citation}}: 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
{{citation}}: 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
- ^ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2021-01-03
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