E-mail:
June[dot]Juritz[at]uct[dot]ac[dot]za
Qualifications and Experience
June Juritz has lectured in the
department since 1969 and was appointed to an Associate Professorship in
1982. When her youngest child began school, she started studying
part-time through UNISA, receiving a BSc in 1965 and a BSc(Hons) with
distinction in 1966. She completed her MSc (1969) The generalized
partial correlation coefficient and PhD (1973) Aspects of noncentral
multivariate $t-$distributions at UCT (before the child matriculated!).
She held a visiting lectureship at
Stanford University in 1976 and has also spent extended periods of study
leave at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, where,
during 1988, she worked with Professor Sir David Cox on the analysis of
AIDS data. She held a temporary lectureship in the Department of
Statistical Science at University College, London, in 1989. In 1984, she
organized a Repeated Measures Seminar which was lead by Professor Ingram
Olkin of Stanford University. She presented papers entitled Teaching
applied statistics using BMDP at the Second International Conference on
Teaching Statistics in Vancouver, Canada, in 1986, and The analysis of
the survival times of AIDS patients at the 47th Session of the
International Statistical Institute in Paris in 1989.
She is a Fellow of the South African
Statistical Association, and was, in 1985, the association's first woman
president. She has served on the Education Committee of the association.
She is also a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.
Research Interests
June Juritz has a broad interest in
multivariate analysis, but focuses her research on the generalized
linear model. She is a specialist in medical applications of statistics,
and consults regularly at the Institute for Biostatistics of the MRC.
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