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Alice S. Whittemore

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Manolio, Teri A.; Collins, Francis S.; Cox, Nancy J.; Goldstein, David B.; Hindorff, Lucia A.; Hunter, David J.; McCarthy, Mark I.; Ramos, Erin M.; Cardon, Lon R.; Chakravarti, Aravinda; Cho, Judy H.; Guttmacher, Alan E.; Kong, Augustine; Kruglyak, Leonid; Mardis, Elaine; Rotimi, Charles N.; Slatkin,
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Whittemore, A. S.; Kolonel, L. N.; Wu, A. H.; John, E. M.; Gallagher, R. P.; Howe, G. R.; Burch, J. D.; Hankin, J.; Dreon, D. M.; West, D. W.; Teh, C.-Z.; Paffenbarger, R. S. (May 1995), "Prostate Cancer in Relation to Diet, Physical Activity, and Body Size in Blacks, Whites, and Asians in the United
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Whittemore, A. S.; Wu-Williams, A. H.; Lee, M.; Shu, Z.; Gallagher, R. P.; Deng-ao, J.; Lun, Z.; Xianghui, W.; Kun, C.; Jung, D.; Teh, C.-Z.; Chengde, L.; Yao, X. J.; Paffenbarger, R. S.; Henderson, B. E. (June 1990), "Diet, Physical Activity, and Colorectal Cancer Among Chinese in North America and
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in 2016 "for her fundamental contributions to biostatistics and epidemiology, covering a wide range of topics from environmental risk assessment to genetic linkage analysis, genetic association studies and cancer epidemiology; for bringing her statistical and mathematical insight to bear on the
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Montgomery; Valle, David; Whittemore, Alice S.; Boehnke, Michael; Clark, Andrew G.; Eichler, Evan E.; Gibson, Greg; Haines, Jonathan L.; Mackay, Trudy F. C.; McCarroll, Steven A.; Visscher, Peter M. (October 2009), "Finding the missing heritability of complex diseases",
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Whittemore, A. S.; Gong, G.; Itnyre, J. (March 1997), "Prevalence and contribution of BRCA1 mutations in breast cancer and ovarian cancer: results from three U.S. population-based case-control studies of ovarian cancer",
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In 2004, she won the Janet L. Norwood Award for outstanding achievement by a woman in the statistical sciences. In 2010, the Statistics in Epidemiology section of the
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collection and interpretation of scientific data; for her leadership in large consortia of cancer studies; and for being a role model for many young scientists".
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Stanford Professor Emeritus Joseph Keller, an applied mathematician whose work investigated atomic explosions and oscillating ponytails, dies at 93
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As a professor of mathematics at Hunter College, she became interested in epidemiology and statistics, and took a fellowship to
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who studies the effects of genetics and lifestyle on cancer, after an earlier career as a pure mathematician studying
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Whittemore, Alice S.; Halpern, Jerry (March 1994), "A Class of Tests for Linkage Using Affected Pedigree Members",
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Whittemore, A. S.; Korn, E. L. (July 1980), "Asthma and air pollution in the Los Angeles area.",
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Whittemore originally studied pure mathematics. She obtained bachelor's degree in 1958 from
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gave her their Nathan Mantel Lifetime Achievement Award. She was the recipient of the
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Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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to accomplish that shift of interests, under the mentorship of
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Stanford Historical Society Oral History Program, 2015.
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Whittemore: An Oral History," 202:, and her master's degree in 1964 from 193: 793: 744: 664: 626:"Alice S. Whittemore: An Oral History" 542: 518: 432:The American Journal of Human Genetics 709:"Section Congratulates Award Winners" 706: 700: 631: 186:, and has served as president of the 816:21st-century American mathematicians 806:20th-century American mathematicians 719: 665:Bouton, Katherine (April 12, 1998), 248: 750: 678: 658: 560:Third Annual Janet L. Norwood Award 13: 851:Marymount Manhattan College alumni 759:, American Statistical Association 715:, American Statistical Association 604: 14: 897: 773: 296:American Journal of Public Health 728:Florence Nightingale David Award 585:"Alice S. 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US American
CUNY Graduate Center
Hunter College
Marymount Manhattan
AAAS fellow
Janet L. Norwood Award
Florence Nightingale David Award
ASA
R. A. Fisher Lectureship
Biostatistics
group theory
Stanford University
New York University
Hunter College
Thesis
Doctoral advisor
Gilbert Baumslag
epidemiologist
biostatistician
group theory
biomedical data science
Stanford University
International Biometric Society
Marymount Manhattan College
Hunter College
Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Frattini subgroups
Gilbert Baumslag
New York University
Joseph Keller

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