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Nancy J. Kirkendall
Director: Statistics and Methods Group
E-mail: nancy.kirkendall@eia.doe.gov
Phone: (202) 287-1706
Fax: (202) 287-1705
Energy Information Administration, EI-70
1000 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Washington, DC 20585
Duties
 The Statistics and Methods Group (SMG) provides quality oversight for the EIA. Programs include managing the forms clearance process, coordinating the advisory meetings of the American Statistical Association's Committee on Energy Statistics, managing and improving EIA's performance measurement system, directing EIA's standards and quality guidelines programs, and administering EIA's independent expert review and technical training programs. SMG also leads EIA-wide teams in solving problems, conducts data discrepancy analysis, and provides assistance in improving survey forms and definitions.
Staff
 spacer Stanley Freedman: Division Director
 spacer Renee Miller: Division Director
 spacer Phillip Tseng: Senior Operations Research Analyst
Biography
Dr. Kirkendall started her public service career in 1980 as a mathematical statistician in the Energy Information Administration's (EIA) Office of Energy Data Operations. She moved to the Office of Statistical Standards in 1983 and served as EIA's Chief Mathematical Statistician until 1996. From 1996 through 1999 she worked in the Statistical Policy Branch of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). In that position, she was the desk officer for the Census Bureau, the chair of the Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology, and a leader or liaison for many interagency projects of the Federal statistical system. 
Dr. Kirkendall returned to EIA as a senior level SMG mathematical statistician in 1999, and became director in 2002. In all her EIA positions she has focused on the identification and resolution of data quality issues and the implementation of quality programs.
From 1986 through 2003 Dr. Kirkendall taught time series analysis at the George Washington University. Her private industry experience includes working as a systems engineer at the MITRE Corporation on technical issues related to air traffic control; as an operations research analyst at Computer Sciences Corporation in Saigon, South Viet Nam on management information systems; and as a member of the technical staff of BELLCOMM, supporting the space program.  
Dr. Kirkendall is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and a member of the OMB's Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology. She has been an active member of the Washington Statistical Society (she is a past president) and the American Statistical Association (she is a past vice president). She received the prestigious American Statistical Association Founders Award in 2000 for her contributions to the discipline of statistics and the association.
Dr. Kirkendall received B.S. and M.S. degrees in mathematics from Ohio State University. She received a Ph.D. in statistics from George Washington University.