Nancy Kirkendall
American government statistician
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Nancy Jean Isner Kirkendall is an American government statistician, a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, and a past president of the Washington Statistical Society.
Education and career
Kirkendall majored in mathematics at the Ohio State University, and continued at Ohio State for a master's degree in mathematics.[1] She received a Ph.D. in mathematical statistics at George Washington University in 1974. Her dissertation, Large Sample Finite Approximations in an Infinite Dimension Distributed Lag Regression Model, was supervised by Robert H. Shumway.[2]
She has worked at the United States Census Bureau, and for the Office of Management and Budget as a senior statistician in the Statistical Policy Branch of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.[3] She directed the Statistics and Methods Group of the Energy Information Administration,[1][3] retiring in 2008,[1] before becoming a senior program officer in the Committee on National Statistics of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.[3]
She has chaired the Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology, and served as vice president of the American Statistical Association.[3] She was president of the Washington Statistical Society for 1987–1988.[4]
Recognition
Kirkendall was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1993.[5]
She was the 2000 recipient of the American Statistical Association Founders Award,[6] and the 2007 recipient of its Roger Herriot Award for Innovation in Federal Statistics.[7][8]