Lowell Reed
Lowell J. Reed | |
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| Born | January 8, 1886 |
| Died | April 29, 1966 (aged 80) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania |
| Known for | Reed–Frost model |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | Johns Hopkins University |
| Doctoral advisor | Oliver Edmunds Glenn |
| Doctoral students | Joseph Berkson Morton Kramer Jacob Yerushalmy |
Lowell Jacob Reed (January 8, 1886 – April 29, 1966) was 7th president of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He was born in Berlin, New Hampshire.[1]
He had a long career as a research scientist in biostatistics and public health administration at Hopkins, where he was previously dean and director of the School of Public Health and later as vice president in charge of medical activities. He was an Invited Speaker at the ICM in 1924 in Toronto. In 1927 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[2] As a researcher, he developed a well known statistical technique for estimating the ED-50, and his work with epidemiologist Wade Hampton Frost on the Reed–Frost epidemic models also remains well known. He died in Berlin, New Hampshire in 1966.[3]
Selected publications
- with Raymond Pearl: "On the rate of growth of the population of the United States since 1790 and its mathematical representation." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 6, no. 6 (1920): 275–288.
- with Raymond Pearl: "Skew-growth curves." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 11, no. 1 (1925): 16–22.
- with Raymond Pearl: "On the summation of logistic curves." Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 90, no. 4 (1927): 729–746. doi:10.2307/2341367
- with Hugo Muench: "A simple method of estimating fifty per cent endpoints." American journal of epidemiology 27, no. 3 (1938): 493–497.
- with Margaret Merrell: "A short method for constructing an abridged life table." American Journal of Hygiene 30 (1939).
- with Raymond Pearl and Joseph F. Kish: "The logistic curve and the census count of 1940." Science (New York, NY) 92, no. 2395 (1940): 486–488. doi:10.1126/science.92.2395.486
References
- ^ Robert Cecil Cook, ed. (1956). Who's who in American Education: A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Living Educators of the United States. Marquis Who's Who. Vol. 17. University of Michigan. p. 209.
- ^ View/Search Fellows of the ASA, accessed 2016-07-23.
- ^ Dr. Lowell Reed, A biostatistician; Former President of Johns Hopkins Is Dead at 80 The New York Times. Retrieved July 28, 2012.
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