Gertrude Mary Cox
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Gertrude Mary Cox (1900-1978) was an influential American statistican and founder of the department of Experimental Statistics at North Carolina State University. She was later appointed director of both the Institute of Statistics of the Consolidated University of North Carolina and the Statistics Research Division of North Carolina State University. Her most important and influential research dealt with experimental design. She held important administrative posts in the American Statistical Association and International Statistical Institute.
Gertrude Cox was born in Dayton, Iowa on January 13, 1900. Cox graduated from Iowa State College with a B.S. degree in Mathematics and received her Masters degree in statistics in 1931 from Iowa State.