Arlene Ash
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Arlene Sandra Ash is an American statistician who works on risk adjustment in health services. She is a professor of Quantitative Health Sciences in the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and chief of the Biostatistics and Health Services Research division there.{{r|profile}}
Ash did her undergraduate studies in mathematics at Harvard College. She earned a master's degree in mathematics from Washington University in St. Louis, and a PhD in statistics from the University of Illinois at Chicago.{{r|profile}} Ash taught mathematics in the Peace Corps in the 1960s, helped start two feminist health centers in Chicago in the 1970s, and founded a company, DxCG Inc., to apply her risk adjustment models. Since 1978, she has been involved as an expert witness in public policy issues, including the environmental impact of a nuclear power plant and equity in pay for women teachers. Before joining the University of Massachusetts she taught at Boston University.{{r|amstat}}
Beyond health, Ash is also interested in electoral integrity, and has chaired the American Statistical Association Subcommittee on Electoral Integrity.{{r|amstat|excellence}} She has also been involved in the anti-nuclear movement and has worked for equal pay for women.{{r|amstat}}
She was President of the Caucus for Women in Statistics in 1986. She became a fellow of the American Statistical Association{{r|profile}} in 1998 and is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.{{r|isi}} In 2010 she won the Long-Term Excellence Award of the American Statistical Association Section on Health Policy Statistics.{{r|excellence}}
References
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{{citation|url=https://www.umassmed.edu/qhs/news/2010/11/dr-arlene-ash-long-term-excellence-award/|title=Dr. Arlene Ash receives Long-Term Excellence Award from the ASA|publisher=University of Massachusetts Medical School|accessdate=2017-10-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171021004435/https://www.umassmed.edu/qhs/news/2010/11/dr-arlene-ash-long-term-excellence-award/|archive-date=2017-10-21|url-status=dead}}
{{citation|url=https://www.isi-web.org/index.php/about-isi/who-is-isi/members/indivual|title=Individual members|publisher=International Statistical Institute|accessdate=2018-12-18|archive-date=2017-07-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170729010059/https://www.isi-web.org/index.php/about-isi/who-is-isi/members/indivual|url-status=dead}}
{{citation|url=https://profiles.umassmed.edu/display/130117|title=Arlene S Ash PhD|work=UMass Profiles|publisher=University of Massachusetts Medical School|accessdate=2017-10-20}}
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External links
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