Prof. Nancy Reid
Fellow
Current Employer
University of Toronto
Election Year
2001
Academy
Académie des sciences
Discipline
Mathematics and Computer Sciences
Department
Department of Statistics
Keywords
Theory of inference, likelihood, asymptotics, biostatistics, design of experiments
Nancy Margaret Reid has made fundamental and deep contributions to the mathematical theory of statistics. Her many articles and authoritative work on conditionality, likelihood and higher order asymptotics have been farreaching and of great importance in the foundations of statistical argument and inference.