Jill Dever
{{short description|American statistician}}
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Jill A. Dever is an American statistician specializing in survey methodology who works as a senior researcher and senior director in the division for statistical & data sciences at RTI International.{{r|rti}}
Education
Dever is a graduate of the University of Louisville.{{r|rti}} Majoring in mathematics there, she was encouraged by a faculty member, Steven Seif, to continue in statistics.{{r|tis}} She earned a master's degree in biostatistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,{{r|rti|tis}} and completed her Ph.D. in survey methodology at the University of Maryland, College Park.{{r|rti}} Her 2008 dissertation, Sampling Weight Calibration with Estimated Control Totals, was supervised by Richard Valliant.{{r|mg}}
Book
With Richard Valliant and Frauke Kreuter, Dever is a co-author of the book Practical Tools for Designing and Weighting Survey Samples (Springer, Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2013; 2nd ed., 2018).{{r|pt}}
Recognition
In 2015 Dever was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.{{r|fellow}}
References
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Reviews of Practical Tools for Designing and Weighting Survey Samples:
- {{citation
| last = Burkholder | first = Iris
| journal = zbMATH
| title = none
| zbl = 1282.62027}}
- {{citation
| last = Gabler | first = Siegfried
| doi = 10.12758/mda.2015.005
| issue = 1
| journal = Methods, Data, Analyses
| pages = 137–139
| title = none
| volume = 9
| year = 2015}}
- {{citation
| last = Ruiz Espejo | first = Mariano
| date = January 2015
| doi = 10.1515/jos-2015-0047
| issue = 4
| pages = 813–815
| journal = Journal of Official Statistics
| title = none
| volume = 31| s2cid = 124229997
| doi-access = free
}}
- {{citation
| last = Ahmed | first = S. Ejaz
| date = January 2020
| doi = 10.1080/00401706.2019.1708680
| issue = 1
| journal = Technometrics
| pages = 140
| title = none
| volume = 62| s2cid = 212665124
}}
{{citation|url=https://www.rti.org/expert/jill-dever|title=Jill Dever|work=Experts|date=March 26, 2016|publisher=RTI International|accessdate=2020-04-09}}
{{citation|url=https://thisisstatistics.org/interview-with-jill-a-dever-statisticis-program-director-at-rti-international/|title=Interview with Jill A. Dever, Statistics Program Director at RTI International|work=This is Statistics|publisher=American Statistical Association|date=October 6, 2015|accessdate=2020-04-09}}
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Category:UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health alumni