Linda Jean Young (born 1952)[1] is the Chief Mathematical Statistician and Director of Research and Development at the National Agricultural Statistics Service.[2] Her research interests include integrating diverse data especially that involving spatial data, agricultural data, and statistical ecology.
Linda Jean Young | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1952 |
| Alma mater | Oklahoma State University West Texas State University |
| Occupation | Statistician |
Young earned BS and MS degrees in mathematics from West Texas State University in 1974 and 1976, respectively.[3] She completed her PhD in 1981 from Oklahoma State University. Her dissertation, Estimation and Testing Procedures for the Parameters of the Negative Binomial Distribution, was supervised by John Leroy Folks.[3][4] She has served on the faculty of three land grant institutions: Oklahoma State University, the University of Nebraska, and the University of Florida.[3]
With Jerry H. Young, she is the author of the book Statistical Ecology: A Population Perspective (Kluwer, 1998).
She is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.[3]
References
edit- ^ Birthdate from Worldcat
- ^ Dr. Linda J. Young: Chief Mathematical Statistician and Director of Research and Development, National Agricultural Statistics Service, retrieved 2017-10-10
- ^ a b c d Curriculum vitae (PDF), University of Florida, retrieved 2017-10-10
- ^ Linda J. Young at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
External links
edit- Linda J. Young publications indexed by Google Scholar