Cleo S. Youtz (1909–2005) was an American statistician who worked for many years at Harvard University as the research assistant, collaborator, computer, and coauthor of Frederick Mosteller,[1] as manager of Mosteller's other staff,[2] and as the historian of the Harvard statistics department.
[1] Youtz was hired by Mosteller in 1957 when he was appointed chair of the newly formed department,[3] and continued working with Mosteller after he retired from teaching in 1987, until he finally left Harvard in 2003.
[4] Although Mosteller did not list Youtz as a coauthor on all of his publications, she was listed on many, including: One of the few publications crediting her as a contributor but not written with Mosteller was a festschrift for Mosteller's 70th birthday, A Statistical Model: Frederick Mosteller's Contributions to Statistics, Science, and Public Policy (1990),[5] which listed her as a collaborator on its title page and stated that "but for her modesty" she should have been listed as one of its editors.
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