Rita B. Zemach (née Dresner; April 3, 1926 – June 8, 2015)[1][2] was an American statistician who worked for the Michigan Department of Public Health, and helped promote women in statistics.
[3] Rita Dresner started her undergraduate studies at New York University, but transferred to Barnard College in her junior year.
[8] She later published this work, "the first significant progress on orthogonal arrays of strength 4", with Seiden in the Annals of Mathematical Statistics.
[9] Her later research concerned more applied areas of statistics, in health and resource allocation.
By 1979, she had become chief of statistics research and education for the Michigan Department of Public Health.