Mary Grace Kovar
Mary Grace Kovar (July 6, 1929 – September 21, 2015) was an American statistician.Kovar worked as chief of the Analytical Coordination Branch of the Division of Analysis at the National Center for Health Statistics.
For many years she was the coordinator of ''Health, United States'', a series of books reporting the health statistics of Americans. By 1996, she had retired from the NCHS, and had become a senior research scientist at NORC at the University of Chicago. She was a vice president at NORC by 2000.
She married Earl S. Pollack, a biostatistician at the National Institutes of Health. Pollack died in 2012.
The topics of some of Kovar's best-cited publications include trends in blood lead levels, infant nutrition and its effects on health, patterns of sensitivity to allergens,, longitudinal studies of aging, and a comparison of the results of in-person interviews versus telephone surveys.
Kovar was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1979, seven years after Pollack. She became a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1990. Provided by Wikipedia
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Charges for care in institutions for the aged and chronically ill, United States, May-June 1964.
Washington : U.S. Public Health Service : [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1967Format: Book
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Employment during pregnancy ; legitimate live births, United States, 1963.
Washington : U.S. Public Health Service : [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1968Format: Government Document Book
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The Longitudinal study of aging, 1984-90
Washington, DC : United States Government Printing Office, 1992Format: Government Document Book
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Aging in the eighties, ability to perform work-related activities, data from the supplement on aging to the National Health Interview Survey : United States, 1984
[Hyattsville, Md.] : U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, 1987Format: Government Document Book
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Aging in the eighties : preliminary data from the supplement on aging to the national health interview survey, United States, January-June 1984
Hyattsville, Md. : U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Center for Health Statistics, 1986Format: Government Document Book
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Differentials in expectation of additional children among mothers of legitimate live births, United States, 1964-1966
Rockville, Md. : U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Health Services and Mental Health Administration, National Center for Health Statistics, 1972Format: Government Document Book
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Aging in the eighties : people living alone--two years later : data from the 1984 and 1986 longitudinal study of aging interviews
[Hyattsville, Md.] : [U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control], 1988Format: Government Document Book
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Data systems of the National Center for Health Statistics through the 1980's.
Hyattsville, Md. : [Washington, D.C.?] :; Hyattsville, Md. : [Washington, D.C.? :] : U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Center for Health Statistics ; [Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., distributor], 1989Format: Government Document Book
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Disability among older people : United States and Canada
Hyattsville, Md. : Washington, DC : U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics ; For sale by U.S. G.P.O., 1995Format: Government Document Book
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Data systems of the National Center for Health Statistics.
Hyattsville, Md. : U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Center for Health Statistics, 1989Format: Government Document Book
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Visits for medical and dental care during the year preceding childbirth, United States, 1963 births.
Washington : U.S. Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare, Public Health Service : [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print Off.], 1968Format: Government Document Book
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Variations in birth weight ; legitimate live births, United States, 1963.
Washington : U.S. Health Services and Mental Health Administration : [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1968Format: Government Document Book
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Differentials in expectation of additional children among mothers of legitimate live births, United States, 1964-1966.
Rockville, Md. : U.S. National Center for Health Statistics : [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., Washington], 1972Format: Government Document Book
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Infant mortality rates : relationships with mother's reproductive history, United States
Rockville, Md. : U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Health Services and Mental Health Administration, National Center for Health Statistics, 1973Format: Government Document Book
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Infant mortality rates : socioeconomic factors, United States
Rockville, Md. : U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Health Services and Mental Health Administration, National Center for Health Statistics, 1972Format: Government Document Book
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Expenses for hospital and institutional care during the last year of life for adults who died in 1964 or 1965, United States
Rockville, Md. : U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Health Services and Mental Health Administration, National Center for Health Statistics, 1971Other Authors: “…Kovar, Mary Grace…”
Format: Government Document Book
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The supplement on aging to the 1984 National Health Interview Survey : includes descriptions of the sample, questionnaire content, and survey operations, and presents strategies an...
Hyattsville, Md. : Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Center for Health Statistics ; For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1987Other Authors: “…Kovar, Mary Grace…”
Format: Government Document Book
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The supplement on aging to the 1984 National Health Interview Survey : includes description of the sample, questionnaire content, and survey operations, and presents strategies and...
Hyattsville, Md. : Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Center for Health Statistics ; For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1987Other Authors: “…Kovar, Mary Grace…”
Format: Government Document Book
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The National Health Interview Survey : design 1973-84 and procedures 1975-83.
Hyattsville, Md. : Washington, D.C. :; Hyattsville, Md. : Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Center for Health Statistics ; For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1985Other Authors: “…Kovar, Mary Grace…”
Format: Government Document Book
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A study of the effect of remuneration upon response in the health and nutrition examination survey, United States
Rockville, Md. : Washington :; Rockville, Md. : Washington : U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Health Resources Administration, National Center for Health Statistics ; For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1975Other Authors: “…Kovar, Mary Grace…”
Format: Government Document Book