Nancy Reid
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.
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| Born | Nancy Margaret Reid September 17, 1952 |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Alma mater | University of Waterloo University of British Columbia Stanford University (PhD) |
| Spouse | Donald A. S. Fraser |
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| Fields | Statistical Sciences |
| Institutions | University of British Columbia, University of Toronto |
| Thesis | Influence Functions for Censored Data (1979) |
| Doctoral advisor | Rupert G. Miller Jr. |
| Website | utstat |
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.