Naomi B. Robbins

Naomi B. Robbins
Born
Naomi Bograd

(1937-05-08) May 8, 1937 (age 87)
Alma materBryn Mawr College
Cornell University (MA)
Columbia University (PhD)
OccupationStatistician
Spouse
Edward Robbins
​
(m. 1962)​
Children2

Naomi Robbins (née Bograd), also known by her initials NBR, is an American statistician, expert in data visualization, graphical data presentation consultant and author. She is the author of Creating More Effective Graphs,[1] a reference book on the graphical representation of data.

Education, early life and career

Naomi Bograd was born to Samuel Bograd and his wife.[2]

Robbins did her undergraduate studies at Bryn Mawr College,[3] and graduated in 1958 with honors in mathematics.[4] By 1961, when she joined the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, she was already a member of the technical staff of Bell Labs.[5] In 1962, she earned a master's degree from Cornell University with a thesis On a sequential process inspection scheme with an application to a detection problem.[6] She later received a teaching assistantship at Cornell.[2] Robbins completed her studies with a Ph.D. from Columbia University[3] in 1971. Her dissertation was Some characteristics of Page's procedures for detecting a change in a location parameter.[7] She continued to work for many years at Bell Labs in Whippany, New Jersey before going into private practice as a statistical consultant.[3]

Robbins also served as the 2015 chair of the Section on Statistical Graphics of the American Statistical Association.[8] In 2016, she was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[9]

Personal life

In 1962, she married Edward L. Robbins, an optometrist, originally from Jersey City, New Jersey.[10] They have two kids, Joyce and Richard.[11][12] Naomi and Edward live in Wayne, New Jersey.[13]

References

  1. ^ Robbins, Naomi B. (2005). Creating More Effective Graphs. Wiley.
  2. ^ a b "Naomi Bograd Fiancee Of Dr. Edward Robbins (Published 1962)". The New York Times. 1962-01-30. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-03-13.
  3. ^ a b c Speaker biography: Naomi Robbins, O'Reilly Strata Conference, 2011, retrieved 2017-11-18
  4. ^ "Honors", The College News, vol. 43, no. 23, Bryn Mawr College, p. 1, 1958-06-03
  5. ^ "News and Notices", The Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 32 (2): 640–650, June 1961, doi:10.1214/aoms/1177705078, JSTOR 2237781
  6. ^ Bograd, Naomi (1962), On a sequential process inspection scheme with an application to a detection problem, Cornell University
  7. ^ Robbins, Naomi B., Some characteristics of Page's procedures for detecting a change in a location parameter, Dissertation, Columbia University. As listed by WorldCat.
  8. ^ "Notes from the Section Chairs", Statistical Computing & Graphics Newsletter, vol. 25, American Statistical Association, July 2015, retrieved 2017-11-18
  9. ^ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, archived from the original on 2017-12-01, retrieved 2017-11-18
  10. ^ "Wendy Stryker, Richard Robbins", Weddings/Celebrations, The New York Times, 2004-07-04, The bridegroom ... is the son of Dr. Naomi Bograd Robbins and Dr. Edward Robbins of Wayne, N.J. His mother is a consultant on graphical data presentations in Wayne. His father is an optometrist in Ramsey, N.J.
  11. ^ "About". Joyce Robbins. 2016-04-06. Retrieved 2021-03-13.
  12. ^ "WEDDINGS/CELEBRATIONS; Wendy Stryker, Richard Robbins (Published 2004)". The New York Times. 2004-07-04. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-03-13.
  13. ^ "WEDDINGS/CELEBRATIONS; Joyce Robbins, Alan Glickman (Published 2003)". The New York Times. 2003-11-16. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-03-13.