Aparna V. Huzurbazar
{{short description|American statistician}}
{{infobox scientist
|name=Aparna V. Huzurbazar
|nationality=American
|education=Claremont McKenna College
University of Colorado Boulder
Colorado State University (PhD)
|occupation=Statistician
|spouse=Brian J. Williams
|father=V. S. Huzurbazar
|relatives=Snehalata V. Huzurbazar (sister)
}}
Aparna V. Huzurbazar is an American statistician known for her work using graphical models to understand time-to-event data. She is the author of a book on this subject, Flowgraph Models for Multistate Time-to-Event Data (Wiley, 2004).{{r|fgm}}
Huzurbazar is a research scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
She graduated in 1988 with two bachelor's degrees from two different universities: one in mathematics from Claremont McKenna College, and another in aerospace engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder. She completed a Ph.D. in statistics in 1994 at Colorado State University.{{r|lanl}} Her dissertation, supervised by Ronald W. Butler, was Prediction in Stochastic Networks.{{r|mgp}}
She took a faculty position at the University of Florida, but then moved to the University of New Mexico in 1996, and moved again to Los Alamos in 2007.{{r|lanl}}
Huzurbazar is the daughter of noted Indian statistician V. S. Huzurbazar
and the sister of noted statistician Snehalata V. Huzurbazar;{{r|vsh}}
her husband, Brian J. Williams of Los Alamos, is also a statistician.{{r|samsi}}
All four are Fellows of the American Statistical Association; Aparna was elected as a Fellow in 2008, her father in 1983, Williams in 2015, and her sister in 2017.{{r|fasa}}
Huzurbazar was also elected as a member of the International Statistical Institute in 2006.{{r|lanl}}
References
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Reviews of Flowgraph Models for Multistate Time-to-Event Data:
- {{citation
| last = Commenges | first = Daniel
| date = September 2005
| doi = 10.1081/bip-200067992
| issue = 5
| journal = Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics
| pages = 883–884
| title = none
| volume = 15| s2cid = 121421535
}}
- {{citation
| date = December 2005
| issue = 4
| journal = Quarterly of Applied Mathematics
| jstor = 43638704
| page = 795
| title = none
| volume = 63}}
- {{citation
| last = Breneman | first = James E
| date = February 2006
| doi = 10.1198/tech.2006.s364
| issue = 1
| journal = Technometrics
| jstor = 25471138
| pages = 154–155
| title = none
| volume = 48| s2cid = 33310379
}}
- {{citation
| last = Andersen | first = Per Kragh
| date = September 2006
| doi = 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2006.00588_2.x
| issue = 3
| journal = Biometrics
| jstor = 4124610
| pages = 941–942
| title = none
| volume = 62}}
- {{citation
| last = Klein | first = John P.
| date = September 2006
| doi = 10.1198/jasa.2006.s132
| issue = 475
| journal = Journal of the American Statistical Association
| jstor = 27590817
| pages = 1316–1317
| title = none
| volume = 101| s2cid = 118046841
}}
}}
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Category:American people of Indian descent
Category:American statisticians
Category:American women statisticians
Category:Claremont McKenna College alumni
Category:University of Colorado Boulder alumni
Category:Colorado State University alumni
Category:University of Florida faculty
Category:University of New Mexico faculty
Category:Elected Members of the International Statistical Institute