Alexandra M. Schmidt
{{Short description|Brazilian biostatistician}}
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Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
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University of Sheffield
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| doctoral_advisor = Tony O'Hagan
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Alexandra M. (Alex) Schmidt is a Brazilian statistician who works as a professor of biostatistics at McGill University in Canada.{{r|profile}} She is known for her research on spatiotemporal and multivariate statistics and their applications in environmental statistics and epidemiology.{{r|liaison}}
Education and career
Schmidt earned bachelor's and master's degrees in statistics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 1994 and 1996 respectively.{{r|profile}}
She completed her Ph.D. in statistics in 2001 at the University of Sheffield. Her dissertation, Bayesian Spatial Interpolation of Pollution Monitoring Stations, was supervised by Tony O'Hagan.{{r|profile|mgp}}
She was a faculty member at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro{{r|isbapres}} before moving to McGill in 2016.{{r|profile}}
Recognition
Schmidt became an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute in 2010.{{r|profile|isimem}}
She was president of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis for the 2015 term.{{r|isbapres}}
She was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2020.{{r|fasa}}
In 2017 the Section on Statistics and the Environment of the American Statistical Association gave Schmidt their Distinguished Achievement Medal "for fundamental contributions to the development of spatio-temporal process theory, most notably to the theory of multivariate processes through coregionalization as well as the modelling of spatial covariance matrices; for related applications to the environmental and ecological science, and for service to the profession."{{r|liaison}}
Publications
- An Adaptive resampling scheme for cycle estimation, 1998
- Spatial stochastic frontier models : accounting for unobserved local determinants of inefficiency, 2006
References
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External links
- {{Google Scholar id|fYTIHUYAAAAJ}}
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Category:Brazilian statisticians
Category:Canadian statisticians
Category:Federal University of Rio de Janeiro alumni
Category:Alumni of the University of Sheffield
Category:Academic staff of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Category:Academic staff of McGill University
Category:Elected Members of the International Statistical Institute