Agnes Berger
Agnes P. Berger (1916-2002) was a Hungarian-American mathematician who served as an associate professor of biostatistics at Columbia University's School of Public Health, as well as a statistical consultant at Mount Sinai. [1]
Early years
[edit]Her first experiences with mathematics were thanks to the Hungarian publication Kömal (Kozepiskolai Matematikai Lapok), a monthly magazine for high school students that included math problems. [2]
During her studies at the University of Budapest, she was a student of the prominent Hungarian mathematician Lipót Fejér, whom she would remember years later for his short, detailed classes and dramatic endings. [3] Her parents were friends with the parents of contemporary mathematician Peter Lax.[4]
She earned her doctorate.[5]
Career
[edit]Berger collaborated with other statisticians such at Jerzy Neyman.[6] She reviewed work of Joseph L. Fleiss, another statistical mathematician.[7]
Family life and last years of life
[edit]Agnes Berger married Laszlo Berger, with whom she had a son, John Joseph Berger. She died at age 85 at Lenox Hill Hospital on March 27, 2002. [1]
Some publications
[edit]- With Abraham Wald, On Distinct Hypotheses. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics (1949), Volume 20, Number 1.
- On Uniformly Consistent Tests. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics, Volume 22 (1951), Number 2.
- Remark on Separable Spaces of Probability Measures. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics (1951), Volume 22, Number 1.
- On orthogonal probability measures. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (1953), Volume 4, Number 5.
- On Comparing Intensities of Association between Two Binary Characteristics in Two Different Populations. Journal of the American Statistical Association (1961), Volume 56, Number 296.
- With Ruth Z. Gold, On Comparing Survival Times. Proceedings of the Fourth Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability, Volume 4: Contributions to Biology and Problems of Medicine (1961), Number 67.
- On comparing survival probabilities from discrete observations under unequal censoring. Statistics & Probability Letters (1983), Volume 1, Number 5.
- With Ora E. Percus, On sampling by index cases. Statistics & Probability Letters (1985), Volume 3, Number 4.
- With Guadalupe Gómez and Sylvan Wallenstein, A Homogeneity Test for Follow-up Studies. Mathematical Medicine and Biology (1988), Volume 5, Number 2.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Paid Notice: Deaths BERGER, AGNES P." The New York Times. 2002-03-29. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
- ^ Sneha, Narayan (2011). Making it in the mathematical community: the case of women mathematicians in Hungary (Master of Arts). Central European University. p. 34.
- ^ Hersh, Reuben; John-Steiner, Vera. "A Visit to Hungarian Mathematics" Archived 2013-06-27 at the Wayback Machine. The Mathematical Intelligencer 15 (2): 13-26. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
- ^ Hersh, Reuben (2014-12-29). Peter Lax, Mathematician. American Mathematical Soc. ISBN 978-1-4704-1708-6.
- ^ Mintzis, Matthew J.; Berger, Agnes P.; Greenwald, Edward; Greenwald, Edith; Golomb, Frederick (1978). "Malignant melanoma in spouses". Cancer. 42 (2): 804–807. doi:10.1002/1097-0142(197808)42:2<804::AID-CNCR2820420254>3.0.CO;2-9. ISSN 1097-0142. PMID 679166. S2CID 31381862.
- ^ Golbeck, Amanda L. (2017-04-28). Equivalence: Elizabeth L. Scott at Berkeley. CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-351-75191-9.
- ^ Fleiss, Joseph L.; Levin, Bruce; Paik, Myunghee Cho (2013-06-12). Statistical Methods for Rates and Proportions. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-118-62561-3.
