Cathryn S. Dippo is an American statistician. She became a fellow of the

American Statistical Association The American Statistical Association (ASA) is the main professional organization for statisticians and related professionals in the United States. It was founded in Boston, Massachusetts on November 27, 1839, and is the second oldest continuousl ...

in 1989.

Education

She obtained a Ph.D. in

mathematical statistics Mathematical statistics is the application of probability theory, a branch of mathematics, to statistics, as opposed to techniques for collecting statistical data. Specific mathematical techniques which are used for this include mathematical an ...

from George Washington University.

Work

In the mid-1980s she began the National Science Foundation/

/ BLS Senior Research Fellow Program. In the late 1980s she began the BLS Behavioral Science Research Center. She retired as associate commissioner of the Office of Survey Methods Research at the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the first decade of the 2000s. While at the Bureau of Labor Statistics she also chaired the Current Population Survey Redesign and the FedStats R&D Working Group. She also worked as a referee for statistical journals.

Affiliations

From 1985 to 1986 she was a chairperson of the methodology section of the Washington Statistical Society (WSS); the WSS is a chapter of the

. From 1986 to 1988 she was a representative-at-large of the WSS. In 1989 she became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, which she also became a lifetime member of at some point. She served as president of the WSS from 1989 to 1990. She was a Curtis Jacobs Memorial Award Coordinator for the WSS, and on their Curtis Jacobs Memorial Committee, from 1991 to 1993. In 1991 she also received the WSS Presidents' Award as part of the ASA-150 Committee. From 1992 to 1993 she was on the WSS's Committee on ASA Fellows. She also became a member of the Caucus for Women in Statistics.

References

External links

Writings by Cathryn S. Dippo at JSTOR
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