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|File:Mary van Kleeck LOC hec.10458.jpg]] Join us at the History of Women in Statistics Wikipedia Edit-a-thon and help to improve Wikipedia articles related to women statisticians. This event is presented by the American Statistical Association with support from [http://wikidc.org Wikimedia DC].

  • When: Friday, March 11, 2022, from 3-5pm eastern time
  • Where: Online -- Zoom link will be made available to those who register
  • Organizers

: [https://community.amstat.org/historyofstats/home History of Statistics interest group] of American Statistical Association

: Peter Meyer and Ariel Cetrone of [http://wikimediadc.org/wiki/Home Wikimedia DC]

: Donna Lalonde, Director of Strategic Initiatives and Outreach for the ASA

  • Register: [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/history-of-women-in-statistics-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-tickets-271024249827 Eventbrite]

:Note: No experience necessary. Training will be provided for new editors.

  • Dashboard:

:Once registered, go to the event's [https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/American_Statistical_Association/Historic_of_Women_in_Statistics?enroll=lakseyxv dashboard page]. New editors, select 'Sign up', existing editors, select 'Log in'.

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Slide deck

File:ASA 2022 Edit-a-thon.pdf

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Article work list

IMPORTANT: Use this [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M91MxI7CYKsm2aIDglJk_6x2ZnZfoxynAovnevTjtnY/edit#gid=0 Google sheet] to reserve an article before you begin editing. This will help to avoid cross editing.

Articles for creation

Existing articles for improvement

Biographies

:Stubs (short articles) for expansion

:Other articles

Concepts, terms, events, organizations

Other statisticians (other genders), concepts, organizations, etc.

  • George C. Shattuck [https://archive.org/details/probonopublicosh00mass2] [https://cambridge.dlconsulting.com/?a=d&d=Chronicle19221021-01.2.4&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------]
  • Edward Dana Durand (AKA E. Dana Durand) [https://www.census.gov/history/www/census_then_now/director_biographies/directors_1909_-_1921.html] [https://hoover.archives.gov/research/manuscript-collections/durand] (Pre-1925 (fair use) photo available [https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2014683666/ here]. Download it to your device, upload to Commons, add to article)
  • Carroll W. Doten [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01621459.1942.10500658?journalCode=uasa20]
  • William S. Rossiter
  • Robert E. Chaddock [https://www.irwincollier.com/columbia-statistician-robert-chaddock-and-his-statistical-laboratory-1912/]
  • Edmund E. Day
  • Stuart Arthur Rice [https://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2010/09/01/rice9_10/]
  • F. Leslie Hayford
  • Ralph J. Watkins [https://www.census.gov/history/www/programs/economic/the_watkins_commission.html]
  • William R. Leonard
  • Walter E. Hoadley [https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/roho/ucb/text/hoadley_walter.pdf]
  • Raymond T. Bowman [https://www.nytimes.com/1971/11/03/archives/dr-raymoncibo-wrnan8dies.html]
  • T. A. Bancroft [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00031305.1987.10475473?journalCode=utas20]
  • Franklin A. Graybill
  • Ralph A. Bradley [https://projecteuclid.org/journals/statistical-science/volume-16/issue-1/A-conversation-with-Ralph-A-Bradley/10.1214/ss/998929483.full] [https://ani.stat.fsu.edu/newsletter/Fall2001.pdf]
  • I. Richard Savage [https://projecteuclid.org/journals/statistical-science/volume-14/issue-1/A-conversation-with-I-Richard-Savage-with-the-assistance-of/10.1214/ss/1009211808.full] [http://archives.news.yale.edu/v32.n32/story28.html]
  • J. Stuart Hunter [https://asq.org/about-asq/honorary-members/hunter] [https://asuengineeringonline.com/about/a-conversation-stu-hunter]
  • Mitchell H. Gail [https://dceg.cancer.gov/about/staff-directory/gail-mitchell] [https://irp.nih.gov/pi/mitchell-gail]
  • Jon R. Kettenring [https://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2016/05/02/kettenring16/]
  • Jonas H. Ellenberg [https://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2016/06/01/jellenberg16/] [https://www.dbei.med.upenn.edu/bio/jonas-h-ellenberg-phd] [https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p4930409]
  • W. Michael O'Fallon
  • Richard L. Scheaffer
  • Miron L. Straf
  • Robert L. Mason (statistician) [https://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2015/03/01/bob-mason/]
  • Fritz J. Scheuren
  • Peter A. Lachenbruch [https://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2015/02/01/peterlachenbruch_feb2015/]
  • Sastry G. Pantula [http://spantula.academic.csusb.edu/sastry-pantula.html] [https://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2021/01/01/my-asa-story-sastry-pantula/] [https://afapc.oregonstate.edu/feature-story/member-spotlight-sastry-g-pantula]
  • Robert N. Rodriguez [https://www.niss.org/people/robert-rodriguez] [http://miamioh.edu/cas/_files/documents/statistics/colloquia-flyers/bob-rodriguez-flyer.pdf]
  • Nathaniel Schenker [https://www.niss.org/people/nathaniel-schenker] [https://jpsm.umd.edu/facultyprofile/schenker/nathaniel]
  • David R. Morganstein
  • Joseph W. Duncan [https://unstats.un.org/unsd/statcom/70th-anniversary/documents/UN_Statistical_Chairs_booklet_WEB.pdf UN Source, page 37]
  • James F. Holmes, former acting Census Bureau director, [https://www.census.gov/history/www/census_then_now/notable_alumni/james_holmes.html]
  • Washington Statistical Society based on [http://washstat.org/wsshist.html historical info on the WSS]
  • Analysis of variance table -- a new article could explain how to interpret one. Analysis of variance and Mixed-design analysis of variance refer to such tables, without a full clear explanation. Bring sources for this.
  • International Statistical Congress based on {{cite journal|last=Randeraad|first=Nico|title=The International Statistical Congress (1853—1876): Knowledge Transfers and their Limits|journal=European History Quarterly| date=January 2011 |volume=41|issue=1|pages=50-65|doi=10.1177/0265691410385759|url=http://ehq.sagepub.com/content/41/1/50.short}}
  • Improve any biography from this List of statisticians
  • Improve any biography from this List of women in statistics
  • Vincent Barabba [https://www.census.gov/history/pdf/Barabba_Oral_History.pdf] [https://www2.calstate.edu/impact-of-the-csu/alumni/Honorary-Degrees/Pages/vincent-p-barabba.aspx] [https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO00/20200729/110948/HHRG-116-GO00-Wstate-BarabbaV-20200729.pdf] (The last source is House testimony. (Add external link section to articles and then testimony to the external link section)
  • Clifford Hildreth
  • Isador Lubin[http://www.bls.gov/bls/history/commissioners/lubin.htm][https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60F1FFB355513728DDDA10894DF405B888BF1D3][https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/oral-histories/lubini][https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2016875663/][https://books.google.com/books/about/Remembering_Isador_Lubin_1896_1978.html?id=8Qt6AAAAIAAJ][http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/hec2009013405/][http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/hec2009009166/][http://books.google.com.au/books/about/Economic_trends_testimony_of_Isador_Lubi.html?id=6OhZAAAAYAAJ][http://www.newschool.edu/public-engagement/milano-school-scholarships-awards/][http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,765611,00.html] [http://www.jta.org/1966/06/10/archive/dr-isidor-lubin-honored-on-70th-birthday-lauded-for-his-activities]
  • Edward Fulton Denison -- ASA Fellow, significant economist -- draw from sources on talk page, and any ASA sources
  • John Whitefield Kendrick -- ASA Fellow, significant economist -- draw from sources on talk page, and any ASA sources
  • Morris H. Hansen article could refer to [http://washstat.org/hansen/Morris Hansen Lecture] and include his picture and Census-history details from [https://www.census.gov/history/www/census_then_now/notable_alumni/morris_h_hansen.html][https://www.census.gov/history/pdf/Hansen_Oral_History.pdf]
  • S. N. D. North - [https://www.census.gov/history/www/census_then_now/director_biographies/directors_1893_-_1909.html#merriam](Upload photo from Census source to Commons and add to article)
  • William Rush Merriam[https://www.census.gov/history/www/census_then_now/director_biographies/directors_1893_-_1909.html#merriam] - Add references, follow guidance in template (reorder text).
  • Carroll D. Wright - [https://www.dol.gov/general/aboutdol/hallofhonor/2015-wright] - Follow guidance in template (improve/add inline citations)
  • Paul Meier - add using sources below

Other sources

ASA resources

  • [https://www.amstat.org/asa/publications/home.aspx?hkey=6004b139-0129-443f-87f0-e480d02e5a11 ASA Publications]
  • [https://magazine.amstat.org/ Amstat News]
  • [https://magazine.amstat.org/statisticians-in-history/wis/ Celebrating Women in Statistics 2019]
  • [https://magazine.amstat.org/statisticians-in-history/wis_2018/ Celebrating Women in Statistics 2018]

Related to Egyptian census

  • Sources on Egyptian censuses: [http://books.google.com/books?id=i9zMIomea-8C&lpg=PA150&ots=wrgF6NcTST&dq=1848%20egyptian%20census&pg=PA150#v=onepage&q=1848%20egyptian%20census&f=false] and [http://eh.net/eha/system/files/Saleh.pdf]
  • Saleh, Mohamed. [http://www.luc.edu/orgs/meea/volume12/PDFS/Saleh_Historical%20Origins%20of%20Inter-Religion%20differences.pdf Historical Origins of Inter-Religion Differences: Evidence from 19th and 20th Century Egypt] University of Southern California, Dept of Economics, dissertation proposal.
  • Saleh, Mohamed. 2011. [http://eh.net/eha/system/files/Saleh_0.pdf The Reluctant Transformation: Modernization, Religion, and Human Capital in Nineteenth Century Egypt. working paper, Univ of Southern California.]
  • Cuno, Kenneth M., and Reimer, Michael J. 1997. [http://www.jstor.org/pss/195772 The Census Registers of Nineteenth-Century Egypt: A New Source for Social Historians.] British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 24:2. 193–216. (on JSTOR)
  • Fargues, Philippe. [http://books.google.com/books?id=5m4pQSQuLM8C&lpg=PA25&ots=xP_fM2PmTz&dq=1848%20egyptian%20census&pg=PA26#v=onepage&q=1848%20egyptian%20census&f=false Family and household in mid-nineeenth century Cairo.] In Doumani, Beshara, ed. Family history in the Middle East: household, property, and gender

Related to Paul Meier article, for expansion

  • [https://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2012/onlineprogram/ActivityDetails.cfm?SessionID=207981 Memorial session at ASA's JSM 2012]
  • [http://www.barkerstats.com/PDFs/Meier/Meier-History.pdf List of sources], with thanks to Chris Barker
  • [http://www.barkerstats.com/PDFs/Meier/Meier-salk-trial.pdf The 1954 Field Trial of the Salk Poliomyelitis Vaccine], by Meier
  • [http://www.barkerstats.com/PDFs/Meier/Society-Clinical-Trials-Meier-Cutter-Incident-History.pdf Paul Meier’s Role in the Discovery and Evaluation of The Cutter Incident], by Chris Barker, re Polio Vaccine Safety
  • [http://www.barkerstats.com/PDFs/Meier/Meier-Safety-Testing-Science-1957.pdf Safety Testing of Poliomyelitis Vaccine], by Meier (1957)

Others

  • [https://www.openintro.org/stat/textbook.php OpenIntro Statistics textbooks]
  • Dictionary of epidemiology [http://irea.ir/files/site1/pages/dictionary.pdf]

Outcomes

= Articles created =

= Articles expanded =

= Previous statistics editathon events =

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