Jill Marie Montaquila DeMatteis is an American statistician specializing in survey methodology. She has worked as a statistician in the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, and is a research associate professor at the University of Maryland, College Park[1] and a vice president in the Statistics and Evaluation Sciences Group of Westat.[2]

Education and career

DeMatteis graduated from Ashland College in 1989, majoring in mathematics and economics;[1] she credits Ashland mathematics professor Alan G. Poorman with her decision to study mathematics there.[3] After earning a master's degree in statistics from Miami University in Ohio, she became a Bureau of Labor Statistics researcher from 1991 to 1995.[1]

She moved to Westat in 1995 and returned to graduate study, completing her Ph.D. at American University in 1998.[1] Her dissertation, All-Cases Imputation Variance Estimator: A New Approach to Variance Estimation for Imputed Data, was supervised by Robert Jernigan.[3]

Service and recognition

DeMatteis was president of the Washington Statistical Society for 2006–2007,[1][4] chaired the Survey Research Methods Section of the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 2013,[1] and chaired the ASA Government Statistics Section in 2014.[5]

She was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2008.[1] In 2016 the Government Statistics Section gave her their Pat Doyle Award.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Curriculum vitae (PDF), University of Maryland, College Park, 2014, retrieved 2020-06-27
  2. ^ COVID-19: How Has It Changed Americans' Attitudes and Behaviors?, Westat, retrieved 2020-06-27
  3. ^ a b Montaquila, Jill Marie (1998), All-Cases Imputation Variance Estimator: A New Approach to Variance Estimation for Imputed Data (thesis), American University, doi:10.57912/23867076.v1, hdl:1961/thesesdissertations:2640
  4. ^ "Presidents of the WSS, 1981–", Washington Statistical Society Past and Present: 1896 to 2012 (PDF), Washington Statistical Society, 2012, p. 8, retrieved 2020-06-27
  5. ^ Government Statistics Section Officers, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2020-06-27
  6. ^ 3 Westat Statisticians Honored at 2016 JSM, Westat, 24 August 2016, retrieved 2020-06-27
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