Cathryn S. Dippo is an American

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. She became a fellow of the

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in 1989.

Education

She obtained a Ph.D. in

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from

George Washington University , mottoeng = "God is Our Trust" , established = , type = Private federally chartered research university , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $2.8 billion (2022) , presi ...

Work

In the mid-1980s she began the

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/ 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

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in the first decade of the 2000s. While at the

she also chaired the Current Population Survey Redesign and the FedStats R&D Working Group. She also worked as a

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for statistical journals.

Affiliations

From 1985 to 1986 she was a chairperson of the

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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

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, 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

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References

External links

Writings by Cathryn S. Dippo at JSTOR
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