Cornfield, Jerome 1912-1979

Jerome Cornfield was born on October 12, 1912 in New York City. He received his B.S. (1933) from New York University in history and economics. He was a graduate student at Columbia University (1933-1934), where he studied statistics and economics, and then at the U.S. Department of Agriculture Graduate School (1936-1938), where he studied statistics and mathematics.

Cornfield's early professional work was with economic statistics, and he later entered the field of biostatistics. From 1934-1947 Cornfield worked as a statistician for the Department of Labor in the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In 1947 Cornfield served as a member of a three month mission from the Bureau of the Budget to General MacArthur in Tokyo to work out the reorganization of Japanese statistics.

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