Equivalence

Elizabeth L. Scott at Berkeley

Amanda L. Golbeck (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

634 Seiten

2017
CRC Press (Verlag)
978-1-138-08669-2 (ISBN)

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Equivalence: Elizabeth L. Scott at Berkeley is the compelling story of one pioneering statistician’s relentless twenty-year effort to promote the status of women in academe and science. Part biography and part microhistory, the book provides the context and background to understand Scott’s masterfulness at using statistics to help solve societal problems. In addition to being one of the first researchers to work at the interface of astronomy and statistics and an early practitioner of statistics using high-speed computers, Scott worked on an impressively broad range of questions in science, from whether cloud seeding actually works to whether ozone depletion causes skin cancer. Later in her career, Scott became swept up in the academic women’s movement. She used her well-developed scientific research skills together with the advocacy skills she had honed, in such activities as raising funds for Martin Luther King Jr. and keeping Free Speech Movement students out of jail, toward policy making that would improve the condition of the academic workforce for women. The book invites the reader into Scott’s universe, a window of inspiration made possible by the fact that she saved and dated every piece of paper that came across her desk.

Amanda L. Golbeck is professor of biostatistics and associate dean for academic affairs in the Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. She has had a long-term interest in gender equity issues in academe that stems from her early association with Scott. Golbeck was the lead editor of Leadership and Women in Statistics (Chapman & Hall/CRC Press) and has had a number of published articles on gender issues in the statistics profession. In 2016, the Committee on Presidents of Statistical Societies selected Golbeck to receive the COPSS Elizabeth L. Scott Award.

Introduction. Framing the local research questions (1968). West Point and the field artillery family (ancestry I). Collecting, managing, and summarizing the local data (1969). Aunt Phoebe the astronomer (ancestry II). Reporting the local data (1970). Becoming an outlier. Using the local data for advocacy (1971). 10,000 hours of professional practice. Regressing national data (1972). The UC - Berkeley department of statistics. Focusing on salary data (1973). With Jerzy Neyman. Advocating for data quality improvement (1974). Loyalty oath, civil rights, free speech. Using statistical reasoning toward affirmative action (1975). Productivity as a statistical scientist. Creating the salary evaluation kit (1976). Influencing academic salaries (1977). Continuing efforts to further the careers of academic women (1978 - 1981). After Neyman. (1982 - 1988).

Erscheinungsdatum	03.06.2017
Zusatzinfo	50 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	2150 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
ISBN-10	1-138-08669-X / 113808669X
ISBN-13	978-1-138-08669-2 / 9781138086692
Zustand	Neuware