Polly Feigl

Polly Feigl is an American biostatistician known for her work on survival distributions of patients with varying exponentially distributed survival rates, and on clinical trials for cancer. She is a professor emerita of biostatistics at the University of Washington.^[1]

Education and career

Feigl majored in mathematics at the University of Chicago, and has a master's degree and Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Minnesota.^[1]

Book

Feigl is the coauthor, with Johannes Ipsen, of Bancroft's Introduction to Biostatistics (2nd edition, Harper and Row, 1971), a revised edition of a widely used 1957 textbook by Huldah Bancroft.^[2]

Recognition

Fiegl was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1979.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b Polly Feigl, University of Washington Biostatistics, retrieved 2021-01-03
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Reviews of Bancroft's Introduction to Biostatistics:
- Grimshaw, J. J. (March 1972), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series D, 21 (1): 96–97, doi:10.2307/2986867, JSTOR 2986867{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Hill, G. B. (October 9, 1971), "Statistics For medical students", The British Medical Journal, 4 (5779): 120, doi:10.1136/bmj.4.5779.120-b, JSTOR 25416195, PMC 2599140, S2CID 52331534
- Hills, Michael (1972), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C, 21 (2): 214–215, doi:10.2307/2346504, JSTOR 2346504{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Simpson, J. A. (April 1971), Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, 34 (2): 208, doi:10.1136/jnnp.34.2.208-a, PMC 493764{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
^ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, archived from the original on 2020-05-21, retrieved 2021-01-03

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[uw-1] Polly Feigl, University of Washington Biostatistics, retrieved 2021-01-03

[bib-2] Reviews of Bancroft's Introduction to Biostatistics:
Grimshaw, J. J. (March 1972), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series D, 21 (1): 96–97, doi:10.2307/2986867, JSTOR 2986867{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)

Hill, G. B. (October 9, 1971), "Statistics For medical students", The British Medical Journal, 4 (5779): 120, doi:10.1136/bmj.4.5779.120-b, JSTOR 25416195, PMC 2599140, S2CID 52331534

Hills, Michael (1972), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C, 21 (2): 214–215, doi:10.2307/2346504, JSTOR 2346504{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)

Simpson, J. A. (April 1971), Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, 34 (2): 208, doi:10.1136/jnnp.34.2.208-a, PMC 493764{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)

[3] Grimshaw, J. J. (March 1972), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series D, 21 (1): 96–97, doi:10.2307/2986867, JSTOR 2986867{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)

[4] Hill, G. B. (October 9, 1971), "Statistics For medical students", The British Medical Journal, 4 (5779): 120, doi:10.1136/bmj.4.5779.120-b, JSTOR 25416195, PMC 2599140, S2CID 52331534

[5] Hills, Michael (1972), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C, 21 (2): 214–215, doi:10.2307/2346504, JSTOR 2346504{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)

[6] Simpson, J. A. (April 1971), Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, 34 (2): 208, doi:10.1136/jnnp.34.2.208-a, PMC 493764{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)

[fasa-3] ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, archived from the original on 2020-05-21, retrieved 2021-01-03

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