Biography:Rebecca DerSimonian
Rebecca R. DerSimonian is an American statistician, known for her work with Nan Laird introducing the random-effects model for meta-analysis and, in their 1986 paper "Meta-analysis in clinical trials" applying meta-analysis to clinical trials.[1] She is a biostatistician in the National Institutes of Health.[2]
DerSimonian graduated in 1974 from Brandeis University,[3] and earned a Ph.D. in 1983 at Harvard University.[1] At the National Institutes of Health, she has also been active in supporting women researchers, as a member of its Women Scientist Advisors Committee and as an organizer of communications workshops for women.[4]
In 1988, as an assistant professor at Yale University, and again in 1993–1994, as a researcher with the National Institutes of Health, she visited Armenia for four months each as a Fulbright Scholar.[5] In 2017 she was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 30 Year Celebration of Dersimonian/Laird Paper, Harvard Department of Biostatistics, June 6, 2016, https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/biostatistics/2016/06/30-year-celebration-of-dersimonianlaird-paper/, retrieved 2020-06-04
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 ASA Bestows Prestigious Fellow Designation Upon 62 Statisticians, American Statistical Association, https://www.amstat.org/ASA/News/ASA-Bestows-Prestigious-Fellow-Designation-Upon-62-Statisticians.aspx, retrieved 2020-06-04
- ↑ "Class Notes: '74", Brandeis Review 13 (3): 57, Winter 1993, https://archive.org/details/brandeisreview1214bran/page/n203/mode/2up
- ↑ Anderson, Linda F. (March–April 1996), "Talking the Talk, Communication Skills for Women Scientists", NIH Catalyst 4 (2), https://nihsearch.cit.nih.gov/catalyst/back/96.03/communications.html, retrieved 2020-06-04
- ↑ Fulbright Scholars directory 1987–1988, p. 43, https://libraries.uark.edu/specialcollections/fulbrightdirectories/1987%20-%201988.pdf, retrieved 2020-06-04; Fulbright Scholars directory 1993–1994, p. 50, https://libraries.uark.edu/specialcollections/fulbrightdirectories/1993%20-%201994.pdf, retrieved 2020-06-04
External links
- Rebecca DerSimonian publications indexed by Google Scholar
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