Nancy Reid

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Nancy Reid

OC FRS FRSC
Nancy Reid Royal Society.jpg
Nancy Reid at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2018
Born
Nancy Margaret Reid

(1952-09-17) September 17, 1952 (age 68)
NationalityCanadian
Alma materUniversity of Waterloo
University of British Columbia
Stanford University (PhD)
Spouse(s)Donald A. S. Fraser
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsStatistical Sciences
InstitutionsUniversity of Toronto
ThesisInfluence Functions for Censored Data (1979)
Doctoral advisorRupert G. Miller Jr.[1]
Websitewww.utstat.utoronto.ca/reid/

Nancy Margaret Reid OC FRS FRSC[2] (born September 17, 1952[3]) is a Canadian theoretical statistician.[4]

Education[]

Reid was educated at the University of Waterloo, the University of British Columbia and Stanford University (PhD).

Career and research[]

From 1980-1985 Reid was an associate professor at the University of British Columbia, she then joined the University of Toronto and has remained there ever since, becoming a full professor in 1988.[3] She served as President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1997, and of the Statistical Society of Canada in 2004–5.

Reid studies the foundations and properties of methods of statistical inference in order to discover how inferential statements can accurately and effectively summarize complex data sets.[5]

Awards and honours[]

Reid won the COPSS Presidents' Award in 1992, the Krieger–Nelson Prize in 1995,[6] the Statistical Society of Canada Gold Medal[7] and Florence Nightingale David Award[8] in 2009, and the Statistical Society of Canada Distinguished Service Award in 2013.[9]

In 1989 she was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[10] She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2001.[11] She is also a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.[12] In 2015 she was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh,[13] and in 2016 a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences.[14] She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ Nancy Margaret Reid at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Anon (2018). "Professor Nancy Reid OC FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Larry Riddle. "Nancy Margaret Reid". Biographies of Women Mathematicians. Agnes Scott College. Retrieved 2011-01-28.
  4. ^ "Nancy Reid, Toronto". www.utstat.utoronto.ca.
  5. ^ "Nancy Reid, Toronto". www.utstat.utoronto.ca. Archived from the original on 2017-11-06. Retrieved 2017-10-26.
  6. ^ "Reid, Nancy". ISIHighlyCited.com. Retrieved 2011-01-28.[permanent dead link]
  7. ^ "Award Winners". Statistical Society of Canada. Retrieved June 9, 2013.
  8. ^ Florence Nightingale David Award, Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies, retrieved 2018-11-04
  9. ^ "2013 SSC Award Winners". Statistical Society of Canada. Archived from the original on June 5, 2013. Retrieved June 9, 2013.
  10. ^ "View/Search Fellows of the ASA". Retrieved 2016-11-19.
  11. ^ "Search Fellows". Royal Society of Canada. Retrieved June 9, 2013.
  12. ^ "Honored Fellows". Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Archived from the original on 2014-03-02. Retrieved 2017-11-24.
  13. ^ "Professor Nancy Margaret Reid CorrFRSE - The Royal Society of Edinburgh". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 2018-01-28.
  14. ^ "National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected". News from the National Academy of Sciences. National Academy of Sciences. May 3, 2016. Retrieved 2016-05-14..

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