Jill A. Dever is an American statistician specializing in survey methodology who works as a senior researcher and senior director in the division for statistical & data sciences at RTI International.
[1] Majoring in mathematics there, she was encouraged by a faculty member, Steven Seif, to continue in statistics.
[2] She earned a master's degree in biostatistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,[1][2] and completed her Ph.D. in survey methodology at the University of Maryland, College Park.
[1] Her 2008 dissertation, Sampling Weight Calibration with Estimated Control Totals, was supervised by Richard Valliant.
[3] With Richard Valliant and Frauke Kreuter, Dever is a co-author of the book Practical Tools for Designing and Weighting Survey Samples (Springer, Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2013; 2nd ed., 2018).