Lynda Carlson

Lynda Carlson
Born
Lynda Shirley Tepfer

1943 (age 8182)
Alma mater
SpouseGeorge N. Carlson
AwardsPresidential Meritorious Rank Award
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
Institutions
Thesis The Closing of the Brooklyn Navy Yard: A Case Study in Group Politics  (1974)

Lynda Shirley Tepfer Carlson (born 1943) is a retired American statistician, formerly the director of the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics of the National Science Foundation. 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.