Olive Jean Dunn

Olive Jean Dunn
Olive Jean Dunn in 1998
Born(1915-09-01)1 September 1915
Died12 January 2008(2008-01-12) (aged 92)
Alma mater
Known for
  • Developing methods of correcting for multiple testing
  • Basic Statistics: A Primer for the Biomedical Sciences[1]
Scientific career
Fields
  • Mathematics
  • Statistics
Institutions
Thesis Estimation problems for dependent regression  (1956)

Olive Jean Dunn (1 September 1915 – 12 January 2008)[1][2] was an American mathematician and statistician, and professor of biostatistics at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).[3] She described methods for computing confidence intervals[4] and also codified the Bonferroni correction's application to confidence intervals.[5][6] She authored the textbook Basic Statistics: A Primer for the Biomedical Sciences in 1977.[7]

  1. ^ a b Clark, Olive Jean Dunn, Virginia A. (2009). Basic statistics : a primer for the biomedical sciences (4th ed.). Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-24879-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ "Olive Jean Dunn". AncientFaces. Retrieved 2016-03-20.
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  5. ^ Dunn, Olive Jean (1959). "Estimation of the medians for dependent variables". Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 30 (1): 192–197. doi:10.1214/aoms/1177706374.
  6. ^ Dunn, Olive Jean (1961). "Multiple comparisons among means". Journal of the American Statistical Association. 56 (293): 52–64. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.309.1277. doi:10.1080/01621459.1961.10482090. JSTOR 2282330. S2CID 122009246.
  7. ^ Dunn, Olive Jean (1977). Basic statistics : a primer for the biomedical sciences. New York: Wiley. ISBN 978-0-471-22744-1.