Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/History of Statistics Edit-a-thon



History of Statistics Edit-a-thon presented with support from Wikimedia DC

When
 * December 8, 2023

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 * Edward L. Kaplan
 * The Ghost Map
 * Paul Meier (statistician)
 * Medical statistics
 * Clinical epidemiology
 * Infectious disease statistical models
 * George C. Shattuck
 * Edward Dana Durand (AKA E. Dana Durand)  (Pre-1925 (fair use) photo available here. Download it to your device, upload to Commons, add to article)
 * Carroll W. Doten
 * William S. Rossiter
 * Robert E. Chaddock
 * Edmund E. Day
 * Stuart Arthur Rice
 * F. Leslie Hayford
 * Ralph J. Watkins
 * William R. Leonard
 * Walter E. Hoadley
 * Raymond T. Bowman
 * T. A. Bancroft
 * Franklin A. Graybill
 * Ralph A. Bradley
 * I. Richard Savage
 * J. Stuart Hunter
 * Mitchell H. Gail
 * Jon R. Kettenring
 * Jonas H. Ellenberg
 * W. Michael O'Fallon
 * Richard L. Scheaffer
 * Miron L. Straf
 * Robert L. Mason (statistician)
 * Fritz J. Scheuren
 * Peter A. Lachenbruch
 * Sastry G. Pantula
 * Robert N. Rodriguez
 * Nathaniel Schenker
 * David R. Morganstein
 * Joseph W. Duncan UN Source, page 37
 * James F. Holmes, former acting Census Bureau director,
 * Washington Statistical Society based on historical info on the WSS
 * Analysis of variance table -- a new article could explain how to interpret one. Analysis of variance and Mixed-design analysis of variance refer to such tables, without a full clear explanation. Bring sources for this.
 * International Statistical Congress based on
 * Improve any biography from this List of statisticians
 * Improve any biography from this List of women in statistics
 * Vincent Barabba   (The last source is House testimony. (Add external link section to articles and then testimony to the external link section)
 * Clifford Hildreth
 * Isador Lubin
 * Edward Fulton Denison -- ASA Fellow, significant economist -- draw from sources on talk page, and any ASA sources
 * John Whitefield Kendrick -- ASA Fellow, significant economist -- draw from sources on talk page, and any ASA sources
 * Morris H. Hansen article could refer to Hansen Lecture and include his picture and Census-history details from
 * S. N. D. North - (Upload photo from Census source to Commons and add to article)
 * William Rush Merriam - Add references, follow guidance in template (reorder text).
 * Carroll D. Wright - - Follow guidance in template (improve/add inline citations)

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