st: Ana Timberlake obituary

[Ronan Conroy <rconroy@rcsi.ie>]

There is a moving tributary to Ana Timberlake, founder of Timberlake  
Consultants, the UK distributors of Stata, in the Guardian. It is a  
measure of the esteem and affection in which she was held by so many  
people that her obituary appeared in a national newspaper.

One of her own pieces of research was the re-analysis of the results  
of Robert Borkenstein's 1964 Grand Rapids study, upon which the  
British breathalyser test had been based in the mid-1960s. The  
original data had not been statistically adjusted and earlier analysis  
had suggested that driving improved with the intake of a small amount  
of alcohol. However, after Ana had standardised the data (for weather,  
vehicle age, driving experience, and so on), it became clear (much to  
the chagrin of the brewers) that alcohol intake did indeed make  
driving capability progressively worse. [description from the Guardian  
piece}

Those of us who met her will remember her fondly, and I am sure that  
our thoughts are with her family at this time.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2010/feb/28/ana-timberlake-obituary

Ronan Conroy
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