Nancy Reid
Nancy Reid | |
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Nancy Reid at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2018 | |
| Born | Nancy Margaret Reid September 17, 1952 |
| 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. |
| Doctoral students | Ana-Maria Staicu |
| Website | utstat |
Nancy Margaret Reid OC FRS FRSC (born September 17, 1952) is a Canadian theoretical statistician. She is a professor at the University of Toronto where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Statistical Theory. In 2015 Reid became Director of the Canadian Institute for Statistical Sciences.
Reid has served as President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Statistical Society of Canada. She is co-editor of the Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application.
In 1992, Reid received the COPSS Presidents' Award for outstanding contributions to statistics. 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.