Ana G. Casís was a Panamanian sociologist, statistician, and demographer who directed the 1950 Panamanian census, and later worked for the Inter-American Statistical Institute in Washington, DC.[1] She is also known for her work with Kingsley Davis on urbanization in Latin America,[2] Davis's first work on urbanization.[3]
Casís earned a bachelor's degree in Panama in 1943, and a master's degree at Syracuse University in 1945, with the master's thesis "Population studies in Mexico, Panama, and Puerto Rico, with special reference to urbanization processes.[4]
In 1979, she was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[5]
She died before 2012, when she was listed as a deceased former member by the Washington Statistical Society.[6]
References
edit- ^ Archer, Alford (1962), The Use of Maps to Define Census Areas (Ph.D. thesis), Ohio State University; see footnote, p. 78
- ^ Davis, Kingsley; Casis, Ana (April 1946), "Urbanization in Latin America", The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly, 24 (2): 186–207, doi:10.2307/3348228, JSTOR 3348228
- ^ Hernandez, Donald J. (February 2007), "Davis, Kingsley (1908–1997)", The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Wiley, doi:10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosd003
- ^ "Students' dissertations in sociology", American Journal of Sociology, 51 (1): 55–61, July 1945, doi:10.1086/219714, JSTOR 2771576, S2CID 222427750
- ^ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2021-01-20
- ^ Allen, Rich; Conklin, Joseph (2012), Washington Statistical Society Past and Present 1896 to 2012 (PDF), Washington Statistical Society, p. 92