Delores Conway

Delores Ann Conway is an American statistician and economist known for her work on the statistics of real estate markets. She is Professor of Real Estate Economics and Statistics in the Simon Business School of the University of Rochester.[1]

Education and career

Conway graduated in 1971 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with a bachelor's degree in mathematics, earning a second bachelor's degree in computer methods and statistics in 1972. She went to Stanford University for graduate study in statistics, earning a master's degree in 1975 and completing her Ph.D. in 1979.[2] Her dissertation, Multivariate Distribution with Specified Marginals, was supervised by Ingram Olkin.[3]

She became an assistant professor of business at the University of Chicago in 1979,[2] as the first female faculty member in the University of Chicago Booth School of Business,[1] and moved to the USC Marshall School of Business as an associate professor in 1985. At USC, she directed the Casden Real Estate Economics Forecast, beginning in 2004.[2] She moved to the University of Rochester as associate dean in 2009.[1]

Recognition

In 1997, Conway was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[2]

Personal life

After moving to Rochester, Conway married the president of the university, Joel Seligman.[4]

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References
  1. "Delores Conway", Faculty Profile, University of Rochester, Simon Business School, retrieved 2020-04-23
  2. Curriculum vitae (PDF), University of Southern California, January 2008, retrieved 2020-04-23
  3. Delores Conway at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Goodman, James (July 25, 2015), "Seligman leading UR's evolution", Democrat & Chronicle
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