Mary Ellen Bock | |
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Mary Ellen Johnston Bock | |
Alma mater | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Statistics |
Institutions | Purdue University |
Thesis | Certain Minimax Estimators of the Mean of a Multivariate Normal Distribution (1974) |
Mary Ellen Johnston Bock is a retired American statistician, now a professor emeritus at Purdue University[1] after becoming the first female full professor of statistics and the first female chair of the department there.[2] She was president of the American Statistical Association in 2007.[3]