Jill A. Dever is an American statistician specializing in survey methodology who works as a senior researcher and senior director in the division for statistical & data sciences at RTI International.[1]
Education edit
Dever is a graduate of the University of Louisville.[1] Majoring in mathematics there, she was encouraged by a faculty member, Steven Seif, to continue in statistics.[2] She earned a master's degree in biostatistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,[1][2] and completed her Ph.D. in survey methodology at the University of Maryland, College Park.[1] Her 2008 dissertation, Sampling Weight Calibration with Estimated Control Totals, was supervised by Richard Valliant.[3]
Book edit
With Richard Valliant and Frauke Kreuter, Dever is a co-author of the book Practical Tools for Designing and Weighting Survey Samples (Springer, Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2013; 2nd ed., 2018).[4]
Recognition edit
In 2015 Dever was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[5]
References edit
- ^ a b c d "Jill Dever", Experts, RTI International, March 26, 2016, retrieved 2020-04-09
- ^ a b "Interview with Jill A. Dever, Statistics Program Director at RTI International", This is Statistics, American Statistical Association, October 6, 2015, retrieved 2020-04-09
- ^ Jill Dever at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Reviews of Practical Tools for Designing and Weighting Survey Samples:
- Burkholder, Iris, zbMATH, Zbl 1282.62027
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Gabler, Siegfried (2015), Methods, Data, Analyses, 9 (1): 137–139, doi:10.12758/mda.2015.005
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Ruiz Espejo, Mariano (January 2015), Journal of Official Statistics, 31 (4): 813–815, doi:10.1515/jos-2015-0047, S2CID 124229997
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Ahmed, S. Ejaz (January 2020), Technometrics, 62 (1): 140, doi:10.1080/00401706.2019.1708680, S2CID 212665124
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- Burkholder, Iris, zbMATH, Zbl 1282.62027
- ^ Fellows, ASA Survey Research Methods Section, retrieved 2020-04-09