Olive Jean Dunn

Olive Jean Dunn
Olive Jean Dunn in 1998
Born(1915-09-01)1 September 1915
Died12 January 2008(2008-01-12) (aged 92)
Alma mater
Known for
  • Developing methods of correcting for multiple testing
  • Basic Statistics: A Primer for the Biomedical Sciences
Scientific career
Fields
  • Mathematics
  • Statistics
Institutions
Thesis Estimation problems for dependent regression  (1956)

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.