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Gertrude Mary Cox
Gertrude Mary Cox
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Gertrude Mary Cox had that rare combination of administrative strength and love for her fellow man we so desperately need at the present time. A gracious, patient, tenacious visionary, she brought out the best in people.
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In 1929 she received her B.S degree. To help pay her college expenses Gertrude did computing, George Snedecor—her calculus professor having asked her to work with the comptometers in his computing laboratory.
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Back in Iowa, she continued her interest in psychology and worked with several members of the Psychology Department—including its chairman (later, dean of the School of Industrial Science) , Harold Gaskillon the evaluation of aptitude tests, test scoring procedures, and the analysis of psychological data.
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Both as a teacher and a consultant, Gertrude particularly emphasized randomization, replication, and experimental controls as procedures essential to experimental design: "Randomization is somewhat analogous to insurance in that it is a precaution against disturbances that may or may not occur and that may or may not be serious if they do occur. It is generally advisable to take the trouble to randomize even when it is not expected that there will be any serious bias from failure to randomize.
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Take additional measurements (covariates) often to help explain final results; (7)
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Bureau of Agricultural Economics, which had been instrumental in establishing the Department, and, in particular, from the Raleigh-based Division of Agricultural Statistics of its North Carolina Research Office. She encouraged researchers in the School of Agriculture to attend her experimental design course and recruited capable applied statisticians to clevelop and teach basic statistical methods.
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Gertrude had decicled that it was necessary to bolster the methods courses with courses in statistical theory; a graduate program was in the offing. Another innovative feature of the Cox statistics program was a series of one-week working conferences on specific topics, such as agricultural economics and rural sociology, biological ant!
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Cox's Institute coordinated a number of short courses for researchers in industry and the physical sciences. One of her most important accomplishments was her successful effort, along with Boyd Harshbarger of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, to establish the Southern Regional Education Board's Committee on Statistics to develop cooperative programs for statistics teaching, research, and consulting in the South.
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Early in 1941 she persuacled Robert Monroe, one of her chief associates there, to come to Raleigh to develop a similar facility. ~ remember those old Hollerith machines at Ames and Raleigh and the tremendous leap forward when IBM entered the electronic age.
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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND HONORS Gertrude Cox's major contribution to science was her ability to organize and administer programs, but her early accomplishments in psychological statistics and experimental design were wiclely recognized.
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the Inter-American Statistical Institute. In recognition of her international reputation she was named honorary vice-presiclent of the South African Statistical Association, honorary member of the Societe Aclolphe Quetelet of BeIgium, and the Thai Statistical Association, and an honorary fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.
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her. She loved wearing dresses she had had macle from colorful Thai silk, and a grower of orchids since her visits to Hawaii in the late 1940s she struck up a close friendship with Rapee Sagarik, Thailancl's principal orchid expert.
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She even continued construction of a new house, unfortunately not completecl until a week after her death. While uncler treatment at Duke University Hospital she kept detailed recorcis of her progress, and her doctor often referred to them.
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Bartelme. The scoring of individual performance on tests scaled according to the theory of absolute scaling.
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Balanced incomplete block and lattice square designs for testing yield differences among large numbers of soybean varieties. Iowa Agric.
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Experimental Designs.
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