Katherine Wallman
Katherine Wallman | |
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| Chief Statistician of the United States | |
| In office November 1992 – January 3, 2017 | |
| President | George H. W. Bush Bill Clinton George W. Bush Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Hermann Habermann |
| Succeeded by | Nancy Potok |
| Personal details | |
| Born | New Jersey, U.S. |
| Died | (aged 80)[1] |
| Education | Wellesley College (BA) |
Katherine K. Wallman (died January 17, 2024) was an American statistician who served as the Chief Statistician of the United States from 1992 to 2017.[2] In that role at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, she provided coordination, guidance, and oversight for the Federal Statistical System of the United States.[3]
She held a BA in sociology from Wellesley College.[4]
In 1983 Wallman was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[5] She was the president of the American Statistical Association in 1992,[6] and Chairwoman of the United Nations Statistical Commission in 2004–05.[2] She has made several appearances on C-SPAN.[7]
Wallman organized efforts to pass and implement the 2002 CIPSEA law which standardized confidentiality-protection and information-sharing by U.S. federal government statistical agencies.[8]
She died on January 17, 2024.[9]
Works
[edit]- Wallman, Katherine K; Harris-Kojetin, Brian A; U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Implementing the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act of 2002 (PDF), retrieved 2013-12-05
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "ICPSR Mourns the Passing of Katherine K. Wallman". www.icpsr.umich.edu. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
- ^ a b "Brief Bio: Katherine K. Wallman, Chief Statistician, U.S. Office of Management and Budget" (PDF), UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistics Division, retrieved 2013-12-05
- ^ Wallman, Katherine K. "Statistical Programs of the United States Government" (PDF). Office of Management and Budget. Archived (PDF) from the original on January 23, 2017. Retrieved March 19, 2013.
- ^ "Remembering Katherine Wallman". Census.gov. US Census Bureau.
- ^ View/Search Fellows of the ASA Archived 2016-06-16 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 2016-10-22.
- ^ "Katherine K. Wallman's biosketch". The Albany Chapter of The American Statistical Association. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
- ^ "Katherine Wallman - Bio". C-SPAN Video Library. Retrieved 2013-12-08.
- ^ CIPSEA at 15 Years: Benefits to Federal Statistics—A Seminar in Honor of Katherine K. Wallman at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
- ^ "ICPSR Mourns the Passing of Katherine K. Wallman". ICPSR. January 31, 2024. Retrieved July 3, 2024.
Further reading
[edit]- Citro, Constance F.; Wallman, Katherine K. (2016). "A Conversation with Katherine K. Wallman". International Statistical Review / Revue Internationale de Statistique. 84 (2): 210–223. doi:10.1111/insr.12153. ISSN 0306-7734. JSTOR 44162482. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
External links
[edit]- "Katherine Wallman - Bio". C-SPAN Video Library. Retrieved 2013-12-08.
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