title: Polly Feigl
text: # Polly Feigl
  
  Polly Feigl is an American biostatistician known for her work on survival distributions of patients with varying exponentially distributed survival rates, and on clinical trials for cancer. She is a professor emerita of biostatistics at the University of Washington.
  
  ## Education and career
  
  Feigl majored in mathematics at the University of Chicago, and has a master's degree and Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Minnesota.
  
  ## Book
  
  Feigl is the coauthor, with Johannes Ipsen, of Bancroft's Introduction to Biostatistics (2nd edition, Harper and Row, 1971), a revised edition of a widely used 1957 textbook by Huldah Bancroft.
  
  ## Recognition
  
  Fiegl was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1979.
  
  