Lynda Carlson

{{Short description|American statistician}} {{about|the statistician|the actress|Linda Carlson}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}} {{Use list-defined references|date=April 2021}} {{Infobox scientist | honorific_prefix = | name = Lynda Carlson | honorific_suffix = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image =  | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Lynda Shirley Tepfer | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1943}} | birth_place = | death_date =  | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | other_names = | siglum = | pronounce = | citizenship = | nationality = | fields = Statistics | workplaces = {{plainlist| * U.S. Department of Energy * National Science Foundation }} | patrons = | education = | alma_mater = {{plainlist| * Brooklyn College * University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign {{small|(PhD)}} }} | thesis_title = The Closing of the Brooklyn Navy Yard: A Case Study in Group Politics | thesis_url =  | thesis_year = 1974 | doctoral_advisor =  | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | influences = | influenced = | awards = Presidential Meritorious Rank Award | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | spouse = George N. Carlson | partner =  | children = | signature =  | signature_alt = | website =  | footnotes = }}

'''Lynda Shirley Tepfer Carlson'''{{r|brooklyn}} (born 1943){{r|born}} is a retired American statistician, formerly the director of the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics of the National Science Foundation.{{r|epa}} As director of the center, she led an effort to collect information about college education by including this topic in the American Community Survey of the United States Census Bureau.{{r|meet|q12}}

==Education and career== Carlson is a 1965 graduate of Brooklyn College,{{r|brooklyn}} and earned a PhD in political science from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1974. Her dissertation was ''The Closing of the Brooklyn Navy Yard: A Case Study in Group Politics''.{{r|nybib}} She worked in the United States Department of Energy, becoming director of the Statistics and Methods Group in the Energy Information Administration, before moving to the National Science Foundation as director of the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics in 2000.{{r|epa|meet}} She retired in 2012.{{r|former}}

==Recognition== Carlson was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2000,{{r|fasa}} and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2011.{{r|aaas}} She was the 2009 winner of the Roger Herriot Award for Innovation in Federal Statistics, given jointly by the Social Statistics and Government Statistics Sections of the American Statistical Association and by the Washington Statistical Society.{{r|herriot}} She is also a recipient of the Presidential Meritorious Rank Award.{{r|epa}}

==Personal life== Carlson is married to George N. Carlson, an economist who also served the U.S. government as director of the Office of Tax Analysis in the United States Department of the Treasury.{{r|george}} They met as graduate students in the library of the University of Illinois, where they had adjacent study carrels.{{r|library}}

==References== <references>

<ref name=aaas>{{citation|publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science|title=AAAS Members Elected as Fellows|date=28 January 2011|url=https://www.aaas.org/news/aaas-members-elected-fellows-3|access-date=2021-04-07}}</ref>

<ref name=born>Birth year from [https://www.worldcat.org/identities/np-carlson,%20lynda%20tepfer$1943/ WorldCat Identities], retrieved 2021-04-07</ref>

<ref name=brooklyn>{{citation|url=https://uihistories.library.illinois.edu/cgi-bin/rview_browsepdf?REPOSID=8&ID=8124&pagenum=976|title=Board of Trustees Minutes, 1968, page 977|publisher=University of Illinois|accessdate=2021-04-07}}</ref>

<ref name=epa>{{citation|chapter-url=https://www.nap.edu/read/18950/chapter/12|chapter=Appendix B: Biographic Information of the Committee on Strengthening the US Environmental Protection Agency Laboratory Enterprise|title=Rethinking the Components, Coordination, and Management of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Laboratories|year=2014|publisher=National Academies Press|doi=10.17226/18950 |bibcode=2014nap..book18950N |isbn=978-0-309-31237-0 }}</ref>

<ref name=fasa>{{citation|url=https://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/ASA-Fellows-list.aspx|title=ASA Fellows list|publisher=American Statistical Association|access-date=2021-04-07}}</ref>

<ref name=former>{{citation|url=https://community.amstat.org/blogs/steve-pierson/2015/01/29/former-federal-statistical-agency-heads-urge-stronger-nces-as-senate-panel-advances-bill-to-weaken-it|title=Former Federal Statistical Agency Heads Urge Stronger NCES as Senate Panel Advances Bill to Weaken It|first=Steve|last=Pierson|date=30 January 2015|publisher=American Statistical Association|access-date=2021-04-07}}</ref>

<ref name=george>{{citation|url=https://econ.washington.edu/news/2014/02/07/2014-economics-distinguished-alumnus-dr-george-n-carlson-ba-64|title=2014 Economics Distinguished Alumnus: Dr. George N. Carlson, BA '64|first=Nicole|last=Johns|date=7 February 2014|publisher=University of Washington Department of Economics}}</ref>

<ref name=herriot>{{citation|url=https://community.amstat.org/socialstatisticssection/awards/cosponsored/rh|title=Roger Herriot Award|publisher=ASA Social Statistics Section|access-date=2021-04-07}}</ref>

<ref name=library>{{citation|title=The Romance of Libraries|first=Madeleine |last=Lefebvre|publisher=Scarecrow Press|year=2005|isbn=9781461707141|page=8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EdUJAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA8}}</ref>

<ref name=meet>{{citation|url=https://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2011/11/01/ncsesdirector/|magazine=Amstat News|publisher=American Statistical Association|title=Meet NCSES Director Lynda Carlson|date=1 November 2011}}</ref>

<ref name=nybib>{{citation|url=http://www.columbia.edu/~jrs9/NY-bib.html|title=Navy Yard Bibliography|first=J.|last=Stobo|publisher=Columbia University|access-date=2021-04-07}}</ref>

<ref name=q12>{{citation|url=https://www.science.org/content/article/can-question-no-12-survive-researchers-fight-retain-question-about-college-degrees|journal=Science|title=Can Question No. 12 survive? Researchers fight to retain a question about college degrees on American Community Survey|first=Jeffrey|last=Mervis|date=13 November 2014}}</ref>

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