American statistician
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 .[ 1]
Education
Dever is a graduate of the University of Louisville .[ 1] Majoring in mathematics there, she was encouraged by a faculty member, Steven Seif, to continue in statistics.[ 2] She earned a master's degree in biostatistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ,[ 1] [ 2] and completed her Ph.D. in survey methodology at the University of Maryland, College Park .[ 1] Her 2008 dissertation, Sampling Weight Calibration with Estimated Control Totals , was supervised by Richard Valliant.[ 3]
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).[ 4]
Recognition
In 2015 Dever was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association .[ 5]
References
^ a b c d "Jill Dever" , Experts , RTI International , March 26, 2016, retrieved 2020-04-09
^ a b "Interview with Jill A. Dever, Statistics Program Director at RTI International" , This is Statistics , American Statistical Association , October 6, 2015, retrieved 2020-04-09
^ Jill Dever at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
^ Reviews of Practical Tools for Designing and Weighting Survey Samples :
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^ Fellows , ASA Survey Research Methods Section, retrieved 2020-04-09