Nan Laird | |
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| Born | Nan McKenzie Laird September 18, 1943 |
| Education | Rice University University of Georgia Harvard University |
| Known for | Expectation-maximization algorithm, DerSimonian-Laird estimator |
| Awards | (2021) International Prize in Statistics (2016) 25th Annual Distinguished Statistician Lecture from UCONN, the American Statistical Association and Pfizer (2011) 25th Annual Lowell Reed Lecturer from the American Public Health Association (2011) Samuel S. Wilks Award, from the American Statistical Association |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health |
| Thesis | Log-linear models with random parameters: an empirical Bayes approach (1975) |
| Doctoral advisor | Arthur P. Dempster[1] |
| Doctoral students | Christl Donnelly,[1] Rebecca DerSimonian, Fong Wang Clow, Joseph W. Hogan, Garrett M. Fitzmaurice, Nicholas J. Horton, Stephen Lake and Steve Horvath |
| Website | www |
Nan McKenzie Laird (born September 18, 1943) is the Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of Public Health, Emerita in Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She served as Chair of the Department from 1990 to 1999. She was the Henry Pickering Walcott Professor of Biostatistics from 1991 to 1999.
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mathgenewas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Ryan, Louise (2015-11-01). "A Conversation with Nan Laird". Statistical Science. 30 (4). arXiv:1512.03533. doi:10.1214/15-STS528. ISSN 0883-4237. S2CID 61945850.