Mary Ellen Bock
Mary Ellen Bock | |
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| Mary Ellen Johnston Bock | |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | Purdue University |
| Thesis | Certain Minimax Estimators of the Mean of a Multivariate Normal Distribution (1974) |
| Head of the Department of Statistics, Purdue University | |
| In office 1995–2010 | |
| Preceded by | Shanti S. Gupta |
| Succeeded by | Rebecca Doerge |
Mary Ellen Johnston Bock is a retired American statistician, now a professor emeritus at Purdue University after becoming the first female full professor of statistics and the first female chair of the department there. She was president of the American Statistical Association in 2007.