Jana Asher

Jana Asher
Jana Asher at the Pax House in Kenya, in 2011
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma materCarnegie Mellon University
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
InstitutionsSlippery Rock University
Doctoral advisorStephen Fienberg

Jana Lynn Asher is a statistician known for her work on human rights and sexual violence. She is an Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Slippery Rock University.[1] She was a co-editor of the book Statistical Methods for Human Rights with David L. Banks and Fritz Scheuren.[2]

Asher volunteers for the American Statistical Association in several roles, including as the Program Chair for 2022 for its Section on Survey Research Methods. She was elected as the Council for Sections Representative to the ASA's Board of Directors for the 2023-25 term.[3] [4][5] Asher was appointed to be the Chair of the Committee on the History of Statistics of the International Statistical Institute.

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