Sophie Schbath
{{short description|French statistician}}
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Sophie Schbath (born 1969) is a French statistician whose research concerns the statistics of pattern matching in strings and formal languages, particularly as applied to genomics. She is a director of research for the French National Institute for Research in Agriculture, Food, and Environment (INRAE), and a former president of the French BioInformatics Society.
Education and career
Schbath was born on 19 December 1969 in Nantes. She earned a master's degree in stochastic modeling and statistics in 1992 from Paris-Sud University,{{r|cv}} and completed a Ph.D. in 1995 at Paris Descartes University. Her dissertation was Étude asymptotique du nombre d'occurrences d'un mot dans une chaîne de Markov et application à la recherche de mots de fréquence exceptionnelle dans les séquences d'ADN.{{r|cv|mg}} She earned a habilitation in 2003 at the University of Évry Val d'Essonne.{{r|cv}}
After postdoctoral research in 1996 at the University of Southern California, Schbath became a researcher for INRAE. She became a director of research in 2006, and director of research (1st class) in 2018. She was president of the French BioInformatics Society from 2010 to 2016.{{r|cv}}
Books
Schbath is the coauthor of the book ADN, mots et modèles, with S. Robin and F. Rodolphe, BELIN, 2003, translated into English as DNA, Words and Models: Statistics of Exceptional Words, Cambridge University Press, 2005.{{r|dwm}}
She is also one of the contributors to the book Applied Combinatorics on Words, which lists its author as the collective pseudonym M. Lothaire.{{r|acw}}
References
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Reviews of Applied Combinatorics on Words:
- {{citation
| last = Allouche | first = Jean-Paul
| journal = zbMATH
| title = none
| zbl = 1133.68067}}
- {{citation
| last = Bóna | first = Milós
| date = September 2006
| issue = 3
| journal = SIAM Review
| jstor = 20453845
| pages = 600–601
| title = none
| volume = 48}}
- {{citation
| last = Baeza-Yates | first = Ricardo
| journal = Mathematical Reviews
| mr = 2165687
| title = none
| year = 2007}}
Reviews of DNA, Words and Models:
- {{citation
| last = Dasgupta | first = Nairanjana
| date = February 2007
| issue = 1
| journal = Technometrics
| jstor = 25471291
| pages = 106–107
| title = none
| volume = 49| doi = 10.1198/tech.2007.s461
| s2cid = 26281348
}}
- {{citation
| last = Davis | first = J. Wade
| date = December 2007
| issue = 480
| journal = Journal of the American Statistical Association
| jstor = 27640000
| page = 1475
| title = none
| volume = 102| doi = 10.1198/jasa.2007.s232
| s2cid = 117361711
}}
- {{citation
| last = Burns | first = Daniel M. Jr.
| journal = Mathematical Reviews
| mr = 2214200
| title = none
| year = 2008}}
- {{citation
| last = Brendel | first = Volker
| date = March 2008
| issue = 1
| journal = Biometrics
| jstor = 25502052
| pages = 312–313
| title = none
| volume = 64| doi = 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2008.00962_4.x
}}
}}
External links
- [http://genome.jouy.inra.fr/~schbath/ Home page]
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