Nancy Reid

Nancy Margaret Reid ( born September 17, 1952) is a Canadian mathematician who deals with mathematical statistics.

Reid studied at the University of Waterloo with a Bachelor 's degree in 1974 ( in statistics), received her master's degree in 1976 at the University of British Columbia and in 1979 at Stanford University with Rupert Miller PhD ( Influence functions for censored data). From 1980, she was Assistant Professor and since 1985 associate professor at the University of British Columbia. Since 1986 she has been at the University of Toronto, where she was a professor in 1988 and 2003 University Professor. 1997-2002 she was standing there in front of the Faculty of Statistics. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Statistical Theory and Applications.

In 1995 she received the first warrior - Nelson Prize. In addition, she received the Gold Medal of the Statistical Society of Canada and the Florence Nightingale David Award ( 2009). In 2000 she gave the Forest Lectures at the annual meeting of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. In 2001 she became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

1996/97, she was President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and 2004-2005 of the Statistical Society of Canada. She was editor of the Canadian Journal of Statistics.

Writings

• By David Cox The theory and design of experiments, Chapman and Hall, CRC 2000
• Alessandra Brazzale, Anthony Davison Applied Asymptotics, Cambridge University Press 2007
• With Cox Parameter Orthogonality and Approximate Conditional Inference, J. Royal Statistical Society B, Volume 49, 1987, p 1