Cavell Brownie

Cavell Brownie (née Sherlock) is a Professor Emeritus of Statistics at the North Carolina State University. Her research considered biometric methods and wildlife sampling.

Cavell Brownie
Born
Spanish Town, Jamaica
Alma materCornell University
Scientific career
InstitutionsNorth Carolina State University
ThesisStochastic models allowing age-dependent survival rates for banding experiments on exploited bird populations. (1973)

Education and career

Brownie is African-American,[1] and was born in Jamaica.[2] She earned her doctoral degree at Cornell University in 1973, developing mathematical models to estimate bird populations.[3] Her dissertation, Stochastic Models Allowing Age-Dependent Survival Rates for Banding Experiments on Exploited Bird Populations, was supervised by D. S. Robson.[4]

Brownie was a faculty member at North Carolina State University from 1982 to 2007.[5]

Research

Brownie's research involved wildlife sampling and biometric methods.[6]

Her publications include:

  • Brownie, Cavell; Hines, James E. (1990). "Statistical Inference for Capture-Recapture Experiments". Wildlife Monographs. 107 (107): 3–97. JSTOR 3830560.
  • Brownie, Cavell (1985). "Statistical inference from band recovery data: a handbook". Wildlife Monographs.
  • Brownie, Cavell (1985). "Capture-Recapture Studies for Multiple Strata Including Non-Markovian Transitions". Biometrics. 49 (4): 1173–1187. doi:10.2307/2532259. JSTOR 2532259.

Recognition

Brownie was awarded the George W. Snedecor award in 1983 and 1990, and the North Carolina State University D.D. Mason Faculty Award in 1988.[7]

She was elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2003. The Department of Statistics at North Carolina State University award an annual Cavell Brownie Mentoring Faculty prize in her honour.[5]

Personal life

Brownie married Cecil Brownie, a Veterinarian at North Carolina State University, in August 1968.[8] Together they have two sons.[8]

References
  1. "Black History Month 2020". Amstat News. February 2020.
  2. "Scholars Meet Mentors at JSM". Amstat News. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
  3. author, United States Department of the Interior U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife (1975). Population Ecology of the Mallard. U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service.
  4. Cavell Brownie at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. "Dr. Cavell Brownie Mentoring Faculty Award". North Carolina State University. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
  6. "Celebrating Black History Month: Cavell Brownie". magazine.amstat.org. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
  7. Lin, Xihong; Genest, Christian; Banks, David L.; Molenberghs, Geert; Scott, David W.; Wang, Jane-Ling (2014-03-26). Past, Present, and Future of Statistical Science. CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4822-0498-8.
  8. "FEATURED SPEAKERS". CbVMA. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
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