Biography:Nell Sedransk
Nell Sedransk is an American statistician who directed the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS).[1][2] She continues to work at NISS,[3] and is a research professor of statistics at North Carolina State University.[4] Her research interests include Bayesian inference and experimental design for complex experiments, and includes participation in a study of reading comprehension.[5]
Sedransk earned her Ph.D. from Iowa State University.[1] Her 1969 dissertation was Contributions to discriminant analysis.[6] Before joining the National Institute of Statistical Sciences in 2005,[1] she was a professor of statistics at Case Western Reserve University and then, since 2000, the Chief of the Statistical Engineering Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.[7] She directed NISS from 2015 to 2017.[3]
In 2002 she was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association; her husband, Joseph Sedransk, had achieved the same honor in 1981.[8] She is also an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Nell Sedransk Named New Director of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences", Amstat News (American Statistical Association), November 1, 2015, http://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2015/11/01/nell-sedransk/, retrieved 2017-11-21
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Nell Sedransk, National Institute of Statistical Sciences, 2009-04-09, https://www.niss.org/people/nell-sedransk, retrieved 2017-11-21
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "NISS Welcomes James Rosenberger as New Director", Amstat News (American Statistical Association), October 1, 2017, http://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2017/10/01/rosenberger/, retrieved 2017-11-21
- ↑ Faculty directory, North Carolina State University Department of Statistics, http://www.stat.ncsu.edu/people/faculty.php, retrieved 2017-11-21
- ↑ "People", Online Reading Comprehension Assessments (University of Connecticut), http://www.orca.uconn.edu/people/, retrieved 2017-11-22
- ↑ Sedransk, Nell (1969), "Contributions to discriminant analysis", Retrospective Theses and Dissertations (Iowa State University Digital Repository), doi:10.31274/rtd-180813-1626, http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd/4151/, retrieved 2017-11-21
- ↑ Author biography from Zhang, Nien Fan; Sedransk, N.; Jarrett, D.G. (April 2003), "Statistical uncertainty analysis of key comparison ccem-k2", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 52 (2): 491–494, doi:10.1109/tim.2003.811669, Bibcode: 2003ITIM...52..491Z
- ↑ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, http://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/ASA-Fellows-list.aspx, retrieved 2017-11-21
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