Biography:Gabrielle Kelly

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Short description: Irish statistician

Gabrielle Elizabeth Kelly is an Irish statistician. She is currently a professor of statistics at University College Dublin, and the former president of the Irish Statistical Association.

Her research has included studies of the correlation between birth and death dates,[1] and on correlations between student attendance at university lectures and the time of day of the lecture.[2]

Education and career

Kelly earned her bachelor's and master's degrees at University College Cork,[3] and completed a Ph.D. in statistics at Stanford University in 1981. Her dissertation, The Influence Function in the Errors in Variables Problem, was supervised by Rupert G. Miller, Jr.[4]

She became a lecturer at University College Cork after completing her doctorate, moved to the department of biostatistics at Columbia University in 1985, moved again to the University College & Middlesex School of Medicine in 1987, and took her present position as professor at University College Dublin in 1990.[3]

Recognition and service

Kelly was the president of the Irish Statistical Association from 2016 to 2018.[5]

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