Nancy Reid

{{Infobox scientist

| name = Nancy Reid

| birth_name = Nancy Margaret Reid

| honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|OC|FRS|FRSC|size=100%}}

| image = Nancy Reid Royal Society.jpg

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| caption = Nancy Reid at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2018

| birth_date = {{birth date and age |1952|9|17|mf=y}}

| birth_place = St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada

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| fields = Statistical Sciences

| workplaces = University of British Columbia, University of Toronto

| alma_mater = University of Waterloo
University of British Columbia
Stanford University (PhD)

| thesis_title = Influence Functions for Censored Data

| thesis_url = https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:nm865vy4821/BIO%2046.pdf

| thesis_year = 1979

| doctoral_advisor = Rupert G. Miller Jr.{{MathGenealogy|id=15889|title=Nancy Margaret Reid}}

| academic_advisors =

| doctoral_students = Ana-Maria Staicu

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| awards = {{Plainlist|

COPSS Presidents' Award (1992)
Krieger–Nelson Prize (1995)
Florence Nightingale David Award (2009)
COPSS Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship (2023)

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| website = {{URL|https://utstat.toronto.edu/reid/}}

| spouse = Donald A. S. Fraser

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Nancy Margaret Reid {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|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.{{cite news |title=Nancy Reid announced as Inaugural Myles Hollander Distinguished Lecturer |url=https://imstat.org/2020/10/02/nancy-reid-announced-as-inaugural-myles-hollander-distinguished-lecturer/ |access-date=28 October 2021 |work=Institute of Mathematical Statistics |date=October 2, 2020}} In 2015 Reid became Director of the Canadian Institute for Statistical Sciences.

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.

Education

Nancy Reid was born in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.

She studied mathematics and statistics at the University of Waterloo, earning her B.Math in 1974. She earned her M.Sc. at the University of British Columbia in 1976. At Stanford University she worked with Rupert G. Miller, Jr., receiving her Ph.D. in 1979. Reid did postdoctoral work with David Cox at the Imperial College London from 1979 to 1980.{{cite web |title=Nancy M. Reid |url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/20038993.html |website=National Academy of Sciences |access-date=28 October 2021}}

Career and research

From 1980 to 1985, Reid was an associate professor at the University of British Columbia. She then joined the University of Toronto and has remained there ever since, becoming a full professor in 1988.{{cite web|url=http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/reid.htm|title=Nancy Margaret Reid|work=Biographies of Women Mathematicians|access-date=2011-01-28|author=Larry Riddle|publisher=Agnes Scott College}}

Reid was the first woman to hold a Canada Research Chair in statistics.{{cite book |last1=Lin |first1=Xihong |last2=Genest |first2=Christian |last3=Banks |first3=David L. |last4=Molenberghs |first4=Geert |last5=Scott |first5=David W. |last6=Wang |first6=Jane-Ling |title=Past, Present, and Future of Statistical Science |date=March 26, 2014 |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=978-1482204964 |page=209 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1H3SBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA209 |access-date=28 October 2021}}

As Chair of the “Long Range Plan Steering Committee for Mathematics and Statistics” Reid shaped Canadian national policy on mathematical sciences, leading to the creation of the virtual distributed Canadian Institute for Statistical Sciences (CANSSI) in 2012. She has been the Director of CANSSI since 2015.{{cite web |title=CANSSI's Collaborating Centres Train Future Statisticians to Make Sense of Big Health Data |url=http://www.canssi.ca/news-events/canssis-collaborating-centres-train-future-statisticians-to-make-sense-of-big-health-data/ |website=CANSSI |access-date=28 October 2021}}

Reid studies the foundations and properties of methods of statistical inference in order to discover how inferential statements can accurately and effectively summarize complex data sets.{{Cite web|url=http://www.utstat.utoronto.ca/reid/statement.html|title=Nancy Reid, Toronto|website=www.utstat.utoronto.ca|access-date=2017-10-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171106033717/http://www.utstat.utoronto.ca/reid/statement.html|archive-date=2017-11-06|url-status=dead}}

Reid served as Editor-in-Chief of The Canadian Journal of Statistics from 1995 to 1997 and the Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application (2018–).{{cite web |title=Editor of the Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application - Volume 5, 2018 |url=https://www.annualreviews.org/db/directory?2018,statistics |website=Annual Reviews Directory |access-date=28 October 2021}}

She served as President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1996–1997),

and of the Statistical Society of Canada (2004–2005).{{cite web |title=Profile: Nancy Reid |date=November 17, 2016 |url=https://imstat.org/2016/11/17/profile-nancy-reid/ |website=Institute of Mathematical Statistics |access-date=28 October 2021}}

Awards and honours

Reid won the COPSS Presidents' Award in 1992,{{cite web |title=COPSS Presidents' Award |url=http://www-personal.umich.edu/~guojian/copss_winners.html |website=University of Michigan |access-date=28 October 2021}}

the Krieger–Nelson Prize in 1995,{{cite web |url=http://hcr3.isiknowledge.com/author.cgi?id=4694 |title=Reid, Nancy |work=ISIHighlyCited.com |access-date=2011-01-28 }}{{Dead link|date=April 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

the Statistical Society of Canada Gold Medal{{cite web |title=Award Winners |work=Statistical Society of Canada |access-date=June 9, 2013 |url=http://www.ssc.ca/en/award-winners }}

and Florence Nightingale David Award{{citation|url=http://community.amstat.org/copss/awards/fn-david|title=Florence Nightingale David Award|publisher=Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies|access-date=2018-11-04}} in 2009,

and the Statistical Society of Canada Distinguished Service Award in 2013.{{cite web |title=2013 SSC Award Winners |work=Statistical Society of Canada |access-date=June 9, 2013 |url=http://www.ssc.ca/en/award-winners/award-winners-2013#service |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130605174344/http://ssc.ca/en/award-winners/award-winners-2013#service |archive-date=June 5, 2013 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}

She was made an Officer of the Order of Canada (awarded 2014, invested 2015) "for her leadership in the field of statistical inference, which has helped to facilitate sound public policy decision making."{{cite web |author=Office of the Secretary to the Governor General |title=Dr. Nancy Margaret Reid |url=https://www.gg.ca/en/honours/recipients/146-11092 |website=The Governor General of Canada |access-date=28 October 2021}}

In 2022, Reid won the Guy medal in Gold "for her pioneering work on higher-order approximate inference which provides a foundational basis for optimal information extraction from data, and has wide-ranging impact on the practice of data analysis".{{cite web |last1=Statistics news |title=Announcing our Honours recipients for 2022 |url=https://rss.org.uk/news-publication/news-publications/2022/general-news/announcing-our-honours-recipients-for-2022/ |website=Royal Statistical Society |access-date=13 July 2022}}{{Cite web |title=Guy Medals 2022 |url=https://rss.org.uk/training-events/events/honours/guy-medal/ |access-date=2022-07-28 |website=RSS}}

In 1989 she was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.{{cite web |url=http://www.amstat.org/awards/fellowslist.cfm |title=View/Search Fellows of the ASA |access-date=2016-11-19 }}

She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2001.{{cite news |title=Search Fellows |work=Royal Society of Canada |access-date=June 9, 2013 |url=http://rsc-src.ca/en/search-fellows }}

She is also a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.{{cite web|url=http://www.imstat.org/awards/honored_fellows.htm|title=Honored Fellows|publisher=Institute of Mathematical Statistics|access-date=2017-11-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302125855/http://www.imstat.org/awards/honored_fellows.htm|archive-date=2014-03-02|url-status=dead}}

In 2015 she was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh,{{Cite news|url=https://www.rse.org.uk/fellow/nancy-reid/|title=Professor Nancy Margaret Reid CorrFRSE - The Royal Society of Edinburgh|work=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|access-date=2018-01-28|language=en-GB}}

and in 2016 a foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences.{{cite web|url=http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/may-3-2016-NAS-Election.html|title=National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected|department=News from the National Academy of Sciences|publisher=National Academy of Sciences|date=May 3, 2016|access-date=2016-05-14}}.

She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018.{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/nancy-reid-13836/|website=royalsociety.org|publisher=Royal Society|title=Professor Nancy Reid OC FRS|location=London|author=Anon|year=2018}} One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: {{blockquote|“All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --{{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161111170346/https://royalsociety.org/about-us/terms-conditions-policies/|title=Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies|date=2016-11-11}}}}

Bibliography

=Books=

{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23213733 |title=Statistical theory and modelling : in honour of Sir David Cox, FRS |date=1991 |publisher=Chapman and Hall |editor-first=D. V. |editor-last=Hinkley |editor-first2=N. |editor-last2=Reid |editor-first3=E. J. |editor-last3=Snell |isbn=0-412-30590-9 |location=London |oclc=23213733}}
{{Cite book |last1=Cox |first1=David R. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43864220 |title=The theory of the design of experiments |date=2000 |publisher=Chapman & Hall/CRC |first2=Nancy |last2=Reid |isbn=1-58488-195-X |location=Boca Raton |oclc=43864220}}
{{Cite book |last1=Brazzale |first1=A. R. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/166126731 |title=Applied asymptotics : case studies in small-sample statistics |date=2007 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |first2=A. C. |last2=Davison |first3=N. |last3=Reid |isbn=978-0-511-28670-4 |location=Cambridge |oclc=166126731}}

=Selected papers=

{{Cite journal |last=Reid |first=Nancy |date=1981 |title=Influence Functions for Censored Data |journal=The Annals of Statistics |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=78–92 |doi=10.1214/aos/1176345334 |jstor=2240871 |issn=0090-5364|doi-access=free }}
{{Cite journal |last1=Reid |first1=N. |last2=Crépeau |first2=H. |date=1985 |title=Influence functions for proportional hazards regression |url=https://academic.oup.com/biomet/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/biomet/72.1.1 |journal=Biometrika |language=en |volume=72 |issue=1 |pages=1–9 |doi=10.1093/biomet/72.1.1 |issn=0006-3444}}
{{Cite journal |last1=Cox |first1=D. R. |last2=Reid |first2=N. |date=1987 |title=Parameter Orthogonality and Approximate Conditional Inference |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2517-6161.1987.tb01422.x |journal=Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (Methodological) |language=en |volume=49 |issue=1 |pages=1–18 |doi=10.1111/j.2517-6161.1987.tb01422.x}}
{{Cite journal |last=Reid |first=N. |date=1988 |title=Saddlepoint Methods and Statistical Inference |journal=Statistical Science |volume=3 |issue=2 |doi=10.1214/ss/1177012906 |issn=0883-4237|doi-access=free }}
{{Cite journal |last1=Fraser |first1=D. A. S. |last2=Reid |first2=N. |date=1993 |title=Third order asymptotic models: Likelihood functions leading to accurate approximations for distribution functions |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24304938 |journal=Statistica Sinica |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=67–82 |jstor=24304938 |issn=1017-0405}}
{{Cite journal |last=Reid |first=N. |date=1995 |title=The Roles of Conditioning in Inference |journal=Statistical Science |volume=10 |issue=2 |doi=10.1214/ss/1177010027 |issn=0883-4237|doi-access=free }}
{{Cite journal |last=Reid |first=N. |date=2003 |title=Asymptotics and the theory of inference |journal=The Annals of Statistics |volume=31 |issue=6 |doi=10.1214/aos/1074290325 |issn=0090-5364|doi-access=free }}
{{Cite journal |last1=Ghosh |first1=M. |last2=Reid |first2=N. |last3=Fraser |first3=D. A. S. |date=2010 |title=Ancillary statistics: a review |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24309506 |journal=Statistica Sinica |volume=20 |issue=4 |pages=1309–1332 |jstor=24309506 |issn=1017-0405}}
{{Cite journal |last=Reid |first=Nancy |date=2013 |title=Aspects of likelihood inference |journal=Bernoulli |volume=19 |issue=4 |pages=1404–1418 |doi=10.3150/12-BEJSP03 |jstor=23525757 |s2cid=16144546 |issn=1350-7265|doi-access=free |arxiv=1309.7816 }}
{{Cite journal |last1=Tang |first1=Yanbo |last2=Reid |first2=Nancy |date=2020 |title=Modified Likelihood root in High Dimensions |url=https://academic.oup.com/jrsssb/article/82/5/1349/7056110 |journal=Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology |language=en |volume=82 |issue=5 |pages=1349–1369 |doi=10.1111/rssb.12389 |s2cid=225500790 |issn=1369-7412}}