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116:Silver Medal for meritorious service
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120:International Statistical Institute
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380:American Statistical Association
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304:Caucus for Women in Statistics
168:Cochran, Jim (April 1, 2017),
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73:Resignation and later career
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35:United States Census Bureau
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1188:American University alumni
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555:William Fielding Ogburn
232:"John Christian Bailar"
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889:Richard Loree Anderson
436:Walter Francis Willcox
234:, Paid death notices,
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141:, retrieved 2019-09-22
466:Wesley Clair Mitchell
93:University of Chicago
59:John Christian Bailar
27:American statistician
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