Ingrid C. Kildegaard

Ingrid C. Kildegaard
Died(1984-09-02)September 2, 1984
Haines Falls, New York
NationalityAmerican
EducationCentral Michigan University
Alma materUniversity of Minnesota
OccupationStatistician

Ingrid Christensen Kildegaard (died September 2, 1984 in Haines Falls, New York) was an American statistician and market researcher who worked at the Advertising Research Foundation as a vice president and technical director.[1]

Early life

Kildegaard graduated from Central Michigan University (Michigan State Teachers College) in 1936.[2][3] She did her graduate studies at the University of Minnesota, completing a master's degree in statistics there in 1950.[1][3][4]

Career

She joined the Advertising Research Foundation in 1956 and was promoted to director of technical services in 1965.[5] At around that time, she became involved in discussions with the United States Census Bureau over whether they should survey ownership of advanced television sets capable of color and of receiving UHF signals.[6] In 1970 she served as chair of the Subsection on Statistics in Marketing of the American Statistical Association.[7] She retired in 1982.[1]

Recognition

In 1967, she was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[8] The Market Research Council added her to their Hall of Fame in 2007.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Ingrid C. Kildegaard", Obituaries, The New York Times, September 7, 1984
  2. ^ "Deaths", News Notes, Centralight, p. 27, January 1985
  3. ^ a b Harris, William T. (1950), "Alumni Information" (PDF), Press releases from April–May 1950, University of Minnesota News Service, p. 13
  4. ^ University of Minnesota March Commencement (PDF), March 16, 1950, p. 23
  5. ^ Rostworowski, Christina (January 1966), "News and notes", Public Opinion Quarterly, 30 (1): 153–158, doi:10.1086/267390, ARF has also announced the appointment of Ingrid C. Kildegaard as Director of Technical Services. Miss Kildegaard has been with ARF since 1956 and has for some years been Assistant Technical Director. She is Chairman of the Committee on Statistics in Marketing of the American Statistical Association, Chairman of the Federal Statistics Users' Board of Trustees, and a member of the Committee on the Standard Geographic Unit of the American Marketing Association.
  6. ^ "Census may count UHF, color sets" (PDF), Broadcasting: 93, March 29, 1965
  7. ^ "Front matter", Journal of the American Statistical Association, 65 (330), June 1970, JSTOR 2284561
  8. ^ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, archived from the original on November 21, 2019, retrieved November 3, 2017
  9. ^ Hall of Fame Winners, Market Research Council, retrieved November 3, 2017


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