Marie Wann

Marie Di Mario Wann (1911–1996)[1] was an American statistician and author. She wrote a book about her experiences in post-war Germany, worked as a statistician for several US government agencies, helped found the Committee on Women in Statistics of the American Statistical Association, and led the Caucus for Women in Statistics.

Education and career

Wann graduated from Hunter College in 1931, and earned a master's degree from Columbia University in 1934. She completed a Ph.D. in educational research at Columbia University in 1943.[2] Her dissertation was A Study of Fact and Attitude About Gonorrhea as Demonstrated by Questionnaire Study.[3]

Wann was chief of the Response Errors Studies Branch in the Statistical Methods Division of the United States Census Bureau before moving to the Statistical Research Division in 1963 as a research editor.[4] In 1964 she was appointed as chief of the Branch of Planning and Programs in the Division of Statistics in the United States Bureau of Mines.[5] In 1967 she became chief statistician of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.[6] Later in the same year she moved to the Office of Statistical Standards of the Bureau of the Budget.[7]

Service and personal life

Wann was the author of the book Dependent Baggage—Destination Germany (Macmillan, 1955), describing her travels to Germany as the wife of the American Director of Education and Cultural Affairs in Allied-occupied Germany.[8] Her husband, Harry Arthur Wann, died in 1965; they had married in 1942 and had two daughters.[9]

Wann became a founding member of the Committee on Women in Statistics of the American Statistical Association, founded in 1972,[10] and she served as the second president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics, following Donna Brogan, in 1974 and 1975.[11] In 1981 she became the founding chair of the Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics.[12][13]

Recognition

In 1974, Wann was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[14]

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References
  1. "Marie Dimario Wann", Find a Grave, retrieved 2018-12-20
  2. Columbia University Catalog for 1943–1944 and 1944–1945, Columbia University, 1897, p. 297
  3. Worldcat catalog entry for Wann, Marie (di Mario) (1943), A study of fact and attitude about gonorrhea as demonstrated by questionnaire study, Columbia University, retrieved 2018-12-20.
  4. "Personal News", The American Statistician, 17 (5): 7, 26–27, December 1963, doi:10.1080/00031305.1963.10479644, JSTOR 2685667
  5. "Personal News", The American Statistician, 18 (4): 11, 47–48, October 1964, doi:10.1080/00031305.1964.10479694, JSTOR 2685667
  6. "Personal news", The American Statistician, 21 (2): 9–10, April 1967, doi:10.1080/00031305.1967.10481796, JSTOR 2682603
  7. "Personal news", The American Statistician, 21 (5): 8–37, December 1967, doi:10.1080/00031305.1967.10479842, JSTOR 2682648
  8. Reviews of Dependent Baggage:
  9. "Harry Arthur Wann, Sr", Noblesville Daily Ledger, May 22, 1965 – via Find A Grave
  10. "New committee on women in statistics", News, The American Statistician, 26 (3): 2, June 1972, JSTOR 2682855
  11. Presidents 1971–2017 (PDF), Caucus for Women in Statistics, retrieved 2018-12-19
  12. Warren, David G. (1981), "News and Notes", Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 6 (3): 566–573, doi:10.1215/03616878-6-3-566
  13. "COPAFS establishes executive office in Washington, DC", American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, 71 (7): 705, July 1981
  14. ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, archived from the original on 2019-04-25, retrieved 2018-12-20
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