Nancy_E._Heckman

Nancy E. Heckman

Nancy E. Heckman

Canadian statistician

Nancy E. Heckman is a Canadian statistician, interested in nonparametric regression, smoothing, functional data analysis, and applications of statistics in evolutionary biology. From 2008 to 2018, she served as head of the statistics department at the University of British Columbia.[1]

Heckman earned her PhD in 1982 from the University of Michigan. Her dissertation, supervised by Michael B. Woodroofe, was Two Treatment Comparison with Random Allocation Rule.[2]

Heckman's publications won the Canadian Journal of Statistics Award twice, in 1998 and 2001.[3][4] She is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.[5]

References

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    "Nancy E. Heckman", Faculty directory, University of British Columbia Department of Statistics, retrieved 2017-10-15
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    Nancy E. Heckman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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    Nancy E. Heckman, Statistical Society of Canada, retrieved 2017-10-15
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    Thompson, Mary E. (2014), "Reflections on women in statistics in Canada", in Lin, Xihong; Genest, Christian; Banks, David L.; Molenberghs, Geert; Scott, David W.; Wang, Jane-Ling (eds.), Past, Present, and Future of Statistical Science, CRC Press, pp. 203–216, ISBN 9781482204988. See in particular p. 210.
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    Golbeck, Amanda L.; Olkin, Ingram; Gel, Yulia R., eds. (2015), Leadership and Women in Statistics, CRC Press, pp. 432–433, ISBN 9781482236453
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