Mary Ellen Bock
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FieldsStatistics
InstitutionsPurdue University
Thesis Certain Minimax Estimators of the Mean of a Multivariate Normal Distribution (1974)
Mary Ellen Bock | |
|---|---|
| Mary Ellen Johnston Bock | |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | Purdue University |
| Thesis | Certain Minimax Estimators of the Mean of a Multivariate Normal Distribution (1974) |
| Head of the Department of Statistics, Purdue University | |
| In office 1995–2010 | |
| Preceded by | Shanti S. Gupta |
| Succeeded by | Rebecca Doerge |
Mary Ellen Johnston Bock is a retired American statistician, now a professor emeritus at Purdue University[1] after becoming the first female full professor of statistics and the first female chair of the department there.[2] She was president of the American Statistical Association in 2007.[3]
