RTI Supports Cox Race,
Honors Namesake
Roy W. Whitmore, RTI International
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This year, as RTI celebrates its own
50th anniversary, the institute proudly
honors Cox and her contributions to
the field of applied statistics.
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Getrude
Cox
elected into the International
Statistical Institute in 1949, serv-
ing as president of the American
Statistical Association in 1956 (a
position currently held by Sally
Morton, who directs statistical
and epidemiological research at
RTI), and being elected to the
National Academy of Sciences
in 1975.
RTI has recognized Cox by
naming a building on its main
campus for her and, begin-
ning in 2003, joining with the
Washington Statistical Society
From left: William G. Cochran, Gertrude M. Cox, George W. snedecor, and C. P.
to sponsor the Gertrude M. Cox
Winsor in 1940
Award for contributions in sur-
vey methodology, experimental
design, biostatistics, or statistical
computing.
I
n honor of the 20th anniver- early planning for a new research
sary of the Gertrude M. Cox institute in North Carolina. That
This year, as RTI celebrates its
Scholarship, sponsored by the institute became RTI. When the
own 50th anniversary, the institute
AsA Committee on women in institute was fully formed, Cox
proudly honors Cox and her con-
Statistics and the Caucus for became director of the statistics
tributions to the field of applied
Women in Statistics, RTI research division, a position she
statistics. We congratulate the
International is lending support held until her retirement in 1964.
organizers of the Cox Scholarship
to this year’s Cox Scholarship Cox’s team was highly sought
and the race on two decades of
Race. An anticipated event dur- after from the beginning. All but
supporting the future achieve-
ing the annual Joint Statistical two of RTI’s first 20 research con-
ments of women in statistics.
Meetings, the race will take place tracts were in statistics, including
For more information about
on Tuesday, August 4. the institute’s first education proj-
the scholarship or to register for
RTI proudly traces its early ect, its first private-sector contract,
the race in advance, visit http://
history to the “first lady of sta- and its first international project.
caucusforwomeninstatistics.com
tistical science,” who led the Cox’s notable achievements
or
www.amstat.org/committees/
committee that, in 1958, did the include becoming the first woman
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