Nancy E. Heckman

Nancy E. Heckman is a Canadian statistician, interested in nonparametric regression, smoothing, functional data analysis, and applications of statistics in evolutionary biology. She is 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

  1. ↑ "Nancy E. Heckman", Faculty directory, University of British Columbia Department of Statistics, retrieved 2017-10-15
  2. ↑ Nancy E. Heckman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ Nancy E. Heckman, Statistical Society of Canada, retrieved 2017-10-15
  4. ↑ 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, Past, Present, and Future of Statistical Science, CRC Press, pp. 203–216, ISBN 9781482204988 . See in particular p. 210.
  5. ↑ 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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