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Nancy Reid
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Nancy Margaret Reid OC FRS FRSC[2] (born September 17, 1952[3]) is a Canadian theoretical statistician. She is a professor at the University of Toronto where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Statistical Theory.[4][5] In 2015 Reid became Director of the Canadian Institute for Statistical Sciences.[6][7]
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Born | Nancy Margaret Reid (1952-09-17) September 17, 1952 (age 71) |
Alma mater | University of Waterloo University of British Columbia Stanford University (PhD) |
Spouse | Donald A. S. Fraser |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Statistical Sciences |
Institutions | University of British Columbia, University of Toronto |
Thesis | Influence Functions for Censored Data (1979) |
Doctoral advisor | Rupert G. Miller Jr.[1] |
Website | utstat |
Reid has served as President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Statistical Society of Canada.[6] She is co-editor of the Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application.[8]
In 1992, Reid received the COPSS Presidents' Award for outstanding contributions to statistics.[9] She is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the Royal Society of Canada; a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences; and an Officer of the Order of Canada.[10]