Nancy Kirkendall

Nancy Jean Isner Kirkendall is an American government statistician, a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, and a past president of the Washington Statistical Society.

Education and career

Kirkendall majored in mathematics at the Ohio State University, and continued at Ohio State for a master's degree in mathematics.[1] She received a Ph.D. in mathematical statistics at George Washington University in 1974. Her dissertation, Large Sample Finite Approximations in an Infinite Dimension Distributed Lag Regression Model, was supervised by Robert H. Shumway.[2]

She has worked at the United States Census Bureau, and for the Office of Management and Budget as a senior statistician in the Statistical Policy Branch of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.[3] She directed the Statistics and Methods Group of the Energy Information Administration,[1][3] retiring in 2008,[1] before becoming a senior program officer in the Committee on National Statistics of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.[3]

She has chaired the Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology, and served as vice president of the American Statistical Association.[3] She was president of the Washington Statistical Society for 1987–1988.[4]

Recognition

Kirkendall was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1993.[5]

She was the 2000 recipient of the Founders Award of the American Statistical Association,[6] and the 2007 recipient of its Roger Herriot Award for Innovation in Federal Statistics.[7][8]

References

  1. ^ a b c Committee on Energy Statistics (PDF), American Statistical Association, 2014, retrieved 2025-04-20
  2. ^ Nancy Kirkendall at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ a b c d Bock, Mary Ellen; Kirkendall, Nancy J., eds. (2017), "Chapter: Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff", Improving Crop Estimates by Integrating Multiple Data Sources, The National Academies Press, doi:10.17226/24892, ISBN 978-0-309-46529-8
  4. ^ Brock, Dwight B. (2019), "Presidents of the WSS, 1926–", Washington Statistical Society History Through August, 2019 (PDF), Washington Statistical Society, pp. 12–13, retrieved 2025-04-20
  5. ^ ASA Fellows, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2025-04-20
  6. ^ Founders Award, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2025-04-20
  7. ^ "Roger Herriot Award", Government Statistics Section, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2025-04-20
  8. ^ Weinberg, Daniel H. (July 2007), "Dr. Nancy Kirkendall to Receive the 2007 Herriot Award for Innovation" (PDF), Government Statistics and Social Statistics Sections Newsletter, American Statistical Association, p. 4, retrieved 2025-04-20
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