Mary Ellen Bock

Mary Ellen Bock
Mary Ellen Johnston Bock
Alma materUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
InstitutionsPurdue 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 byShanti S. Gupta
Succeeded byRebecca 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.