Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/HistofStats2022

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Articles for creation

• Women Statisticians

Existing articles for improvement

Biographies

Stubs (short articles) for expansion

• Selma Fine Goldsmith - Expand using these sources ->
• Eva E. Jacobs
• Cathie Marsh - Add sections, reformat/reword
• Svetlana Antonovska - Create infbox. Add photo to box.
• M. J. Bayarri
• Jean Helen Thompson - Add sections
• Jane Worcester - Create external links section. add this as an external link to her photo.
• Beatrice S. Orleans - Add sections
• Lila Knudsen Randolph - Add sections

Other articles

• Elizabeth Scott (mathematician)
• Florence Nightingale David
• Frances Wood
• Janet L. Norwood Sources:
• Martha Farnsworth Riche - of Census Bureau and BLS
• Mary Somerville
• Hilda Hudson
• Janet Lane-Claypon
• Edna Paisano
• Aryness Joy Wickens
• Stella Cunliffe
• Yvonne Bishop
• Gertrude Mary Cox
• Evelyn Fix
• Mary N. Torrey
• Jane Loevinger
• Kate Claghorn
• E. C. Pielou
• Jane Fawcett
• Mary Eleanor Spear
• Eleanor Josephine Macdonald
• Bertha C. Boschulte
• Esther Seiden
• Margaret K. Butler
• Rita Zemach
• Martha S. Hearron
• Dorothy Adkins
• Constance van Eeden
• Kirstine Smith
• Mavis Batey
• Florence Nightingale
• Helen Alma Newton Turner
• Mindel C. Sheps
• Marie D. Eldridge
• Charlotte Kipling
• Dorothy Brady
• Joan Clarke
• Mary Grace Kovar
• Jean Valentine
• Helen Berg
• Beatrice Aitchison
• Isobel Loutit
• Joan Staniswalis
• Mildred Barnard
• Lenore E. Bixby
• Florence Nightingale David
• Kathryn Chaloner
• Jeanne Clare Ridley
• Julie E. Backer
• Helen Abbey
• Olive Jean Dunn
• Clara Collet
• Connie M. Borror
• Edith Abbott
• Hilda Geiringer
• Mavis B. Carroll
• Dorothy Swaine Thomas
• Margaret Jarman Hagood
• Margaret Gurney
• Katharine Coman
• Shirley Kallek
• Helen M. Walker
• Lila Elveback
• Frances Wood
• Irene Barnes Taeuber
• Enid Charles
• Ethel M. Elderton
• Martha Aliaga
• Betty Allan
• Anita K. Bahn
• Huldah Bancroft
• Kimiko O. Bowman
• Barbara Boyes
• Virginia A. Clark
• Besse Day
• Betty Flehinger
• Alice Lee
• Carol Fitz-Gibbon
• Dorothy M. Gilford
• María Elena González Mederos
• Ingrid C. Kildegaard
• Jessamine S. Whitney
• Hilda Mary Woods
• Cleo Youtz
• Betty Webb
• Jane Wadsworth
• Hildegarde Kneeland
• Helen Humes Lamale
• Regina Loewenstein
• Margaret P. Martin - Univ of Minnesota statistician
• Margaret Merrell
• Ida Craven Merriam
• Irene Montie
• Pamela Morse
• Mary Gibbons Natrella
• Ethel Newbold
• Vera Nyitrai
• Mollie Orshansky
• Gladys L. Palmer
• Ruth Rice Puffer
• Dorothy P. Rice
• Rosedith Sitgreaves
• Mary van Kleeck
• Improve any biography from this List of women in statistics
• Irene Hess
• Cynthia Rudin
• Susan Murphy
• Arlene Ash
• Katherine K. Wallman, now Chief Statistician of the U.S.UN Source see page 65
• Margaret E. Martin, economist/statistician at Bureau of the Budget; influential on U.S. economic statistics
• Helen M. Walker
• Lynne Billard

Concepts, terms, events, organizations

• Analysis of variance - edit to express in simpler language
• Coefficient of determination, which includes adjusted R-squared -- write as simply as possible; Regina's an expert on this
• Add at least a redirect for indirect seasonal adjustment - meaning seasonal adjustment of underlying time series which are then combined
• and for residual seasonality - seasonality properties of a time series left over after indirect seasonal adjustment
• evaluate whether we have enough on Lowe index?
• Statistics Without Borders
• Topics suggested by the Statistics 2013: International Year of Statistics site
• For ideas see also the very nice Statistics portal
• Same for R. A. Fisher Lectureship#R. A. Fisher Lecturers
• Tag statistics articles for WikiProject Statistics on their talk pages, with {{WikiProject Statistics | class = | importance = }} or a further filled-in version
• American Statistical Association (any update appropriate?)
• Topics suggested at WikiProject Statistics and its talk page
• Expand Census in Egypt with sources on 1848 Census listed below
• U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics - add info about Census of Jails and Annual Survey of Jails, which were important sources to seeing changes in inmate and jail staff populations during the covid period (can cite Zeng et al)

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

• George C. Shattuck
• Edward Dana Durand (AKA E. Dana Durand) (Pre-1925 (fair use) photo available here. Download it to your device, upload to Commons, add to article)
• Carroll W. Doten
• William S. Rossiter
• Robert E. Chaddock
• Edmund E. Day
• Stuart Arthur Rice
• F. Leslie Hayford
• Ralph J. Watkins
• William R. Leonard
• Walter E. Hoadley
• Raymond T. Bowman
• T. A. Bancroft
• Franklin A. Graybill
• Ralph A. Bradley
• I. Richard Savage
• J. Stuart Hunter
• Mitchell H. Gail
• Jon R. Kettenring
• Jonas H. Ellenberg
• W. Michael O'Fallon
• Richard L. Scheaffer
• Miron L. Straf
• Robert L. Mason (statistician)
• Fritz J. Scheuren
• Peter A. Lachenbruch
• Sastry G. Pantula
• Robert N. Rodriguez
• Nathaniel Schenker
• David R. Morganstein
• Joseph W. Duncan UN Source, page 37
• James F. Holmes, former acting Census Bureau director,
• Washington Statistical Society based on 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 Randeraad, Nico (January 2011). "The International Statistical Congress (1853—1876): Knowledge Transfers and their Limits". European History Quarterly. 41 (1): 50–65. doi:10.1177/0265691410385759.
• Improve any biography from this List of statisticians
• Improve any biography from this List of women in statistics
• Vincent Barabba (The last source is House testimony. (Add external link section to articles and then testimony to the external link section)
• Clifford Hildreth
• Isador Lubin
• 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 Hansen Lecture and include his picture and Census-history details from
• S. N. D. North - (Upload photo from Census source to Commons and add to article)
• William Rush Merriam - Add references, follow guidance in template (reorder text).
• Carroll D. Wright - - Follow guidance in template (improve/add inline citations)
• Paul Meier - add using sources below

Other sources

ASA resources

• ASA Publications
• Amstat News
• Celebrating Women in Statistics 2019
• Celebrating Women in Statistics 2018

Related to Egyptian census

• Sources on Egyptian censuses: and
• Saleh, Mohamed. 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. 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. 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. 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

• Memorial session at ASA's JSM 2012
• List of sources, with thanks to Chris Barker
• The 1954 Field Trial of the Salk Poliomyelitis Vaccine, by Meier
• Paul Meier’s Role in the Discovery and Evaluation of The Cutter Incident, by Chris Barker, re Polio Vaccine Safety
• Safety Testing of Poliomyelitis Vaccine, by Meier (1957)

Others

• OpenIntro Statistics textbooks
• Dictionary of epidemiology

Outcomes

Previous and subsequent statistics editathon events

• WP:Meetup/DC/Statistics Edit-a-thon from 2013, the International Year of Statistics
• WP:Meetup/DC/Statistics2017 from 2017
• WP:Meetup/DC/HistofStats2021 in 2021
• WP:Meetup/DC/History of Statistics Edit-a-thon in 2023