Huldah Bancroft

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]

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]