Elizabeth Margosches
{{short description|American statistician}}
Elizabeth Helen Margosches is an American statistician who worked on risk assessment for the United States Environmental Protection Agency.{{r|fasa|interviewing|washstat}}
Education and career
Margosches graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1969.{{r|interviewing}}
After earning a master's degree at Rutgers University, she earned a second master's degree in public health at the University of Michigan in 1975.{{r|umich}} She completed her Ph.D. in biostatistics at Michigan in 1980;{{r|washstat}} her dissertation was Nonparametric Tolerance Intervals For Sequential Monitoring.
She joined the Environmental Protection Agency in 1980, after completing her doctorate.{{r|washstat}}
Service
Margosches was president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics for the 1998 term,{{r|cws}} and chaired the Committee on Women in Statistics of the American Statistical Association in 2005.{{r|washstat}}
Recognition
In 2007, Margosches was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association "for significant impact on scientific policy issues at the Environmental Protection Agency; for recruitment and mentoring of women in government agencies; and for exemplary service to the profession".{{r|fasa}}
References
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{{citation|url=https://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2007/pdfs/JSM2007AwardsBook.pdf|page=27|title=Plenary & Awards Sessions presented at the 167th Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah|author=American Statistical Association, Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies, and Institute of Mathematical Statistics|year=2007|accessdate=2018-12-24}}
{{citation|url=http://news.blogs.brynmawr.edu/2012/02/02/bryn-mawr-haverford-career-exploration-days/|title=Interviewing Potential Bosses: Bi-College Career-Exploration Days in D.C.|publisher=Bryn Mawr College|date=February 2, 2012|accessdate=2018-12-24}}
{{citation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TjgXAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA140|page=140|title=Proceedings of the Board of Regents|date=October 1975|publisher=University of Michigan}}
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