Jean Dickinson Gibbons (née Dickinson, born 1938)[1] is an American statistician, an expert in nonparametric statistics and an author of books on statistics.[2] She was the first chair of the Committee on Women in Statistics of the American Statistical Association,[3] and the Jean Dickinson Gibbons Graduate Program in Statistics at Virginia Tech is named for her.[2]
Despite her parents' expectations that she become a nurse or teacher,
Gibbons graduated magna cum laude in mathematics in 1958 from Duke University, and continued at Duke for a master's degree,[2][3]
with a master's thesis on Judgments Concerning Applications of Measures of Central Tendency.[4]
She went on to do graduate study at Columbia University,[2]
but completed her PhD in 1962 from Virginia Tech.[3]
Her dissertation was The Small-Sample Power of some Nonparametric Tests.[5]
Selecting and Ordering Populations: A New Statistical Methodology (with Ingram Olkin and Milton Sobel, Wiley, 1977; Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics and Cambridge University Press, 2008)[7]
Concepts of Nonparametric Theory (with John W Pratt, Springer, 1981)
^Reviews of Nonparametric Statistical Inference:
Gottfried E. Noether (April 1972), SIAM Review 14 (2): 346–348, JSTOR2028522;
J. Klotz (December 1972), Biometrics 28 (4): 1148–1149, doi:10.2307/2528658;
William D. Johnson (May 1973), Technometrics 15 (2): 421, doi:10.2307/1267003;
Eric Ziegel (November 1988), Technometrics 30 (4): 457, doi:10.2307/1269817;
Editor (September 2011), Biometrics 67 (3): 1183, JSTOR41242576.
^Reviews of Selecting and Ordering Populations: A New Statistical Methodology:
Edward J. Dudewicz (1979), Technometrics 21 (4): 582–583, doi:10.1080/00401706.1979.10489832, JSTOR1268301;
Shanti S. Gupta (July 1982), SIAM Review 24 (3): 2, doi:10.1137/1024078.
^Reviews of Rank Correlation Methods (5th ed.):
Z. Govindarajulu (1992), Technometrics 34 (1): 108, doi:10.1080/00401706.1992.10485252;
John I. Marden (1992), Journal of the American Statistical Association 87 (417): 249, JSTOR2290477.
^Review of Nonparametric Measures of Association:
Marvin J. Podgor (1994), Journal of the American Statistical Association 89 (426): 719, doi:10.2307/2290888.
^Fellows list, American Statistical Association, archived from the original on 2017-12-01, retrieved 2017-10-22
