Olive Jean Dunn, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Olive Jean Dunn

Date of Birth: 01-Sep-1915

Date of Death: 12-Jan-2008

Profession: professor, mathematician, statistician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Olive Jean Dunn (1 September 1915 – 12 January 2008) was an American mathematician and statistician, and professor of biostatistics at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).
She described methods for computing confidence intervals and also codified the Bonferroni correction's application to confidence intervals.
She authored the textbook, Basic Statistics: A Primer for the Biomedical Sciences in 1977.