Fiona Alison Steele, is a British

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. Since 2013, she has been Professor of Statistics at the

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(LSE). After graduating with a degree in mathematics and statistics from the

University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh (, ; abbreviated as ''Edin.'' in Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a Public university, public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Founded by the City of Edinburgh Council, town council under th ...

in 1992, Steele completed her master's degree (in 1993) and

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in statistics (in 1996) at the

University of Southampton The University of Southampton (abbreviated as ''Soton'' in post-nominal letters) is a public university, public research university in Southampton, England. Southampton is a founding member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universit ...

. She then joined the LSE as a

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in statistics and research methodology. She was appointed to a research lectureship at the

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in 2001. In 2005 moved to the

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to be a reader in social statistics; she was promoted to

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three years later. Steele was also Director of Bristol's Centre for

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ling from 2010 until she took up her post at the LSE in 2013."Steele, Prof. Fiona Alison"
''Who's Who'' (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2017). Retrieved 2 May 2018."Professor Fiona Steele"
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''British Academy''. 2 May 2018. According to her

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profile, her research relates to the "development and application of statistical methods for the analysis of longitudinal data, including multilevel event history models and simultaneous equation models" and their "applications in

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and education".

Honours

In 2008, Steele was awarded the

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in Bronze. The following year she was elected a

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(FBA), the United Kingdom's

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for the humanities and social sciences. She was appointed

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(OBE) in the

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for services to social science and

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(CBE) in the

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for services to statistics in the social sciences.

Selected works

* (Co-authored with P. Clarke, G. Leckie, J. Allan and D. W. Johnston) "Multilevel structural equation models for longitudinal data where predictors are measured more frequently than outcomes: an application to the effects of stress on cognitive function of nurses", ''Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A'' (2016). * (Co-authored with R. French and M. Bartley) "Adjusting for selection bias in longitudinal analyses of the relationship between employment transitions and health using simultaneous equations modelling", ''Epidemiology'', vol. 24, no. 5 (2013), pp. 703–11. * (Co-authored with P. Clarke and E. Washbrook) "Modelling household decisions using longitudinal data from household panel surveys, with applications to residential mobility", ''Sociological Methodology'', vol. 43, no. 1 (2013), pp. 225–76. * (Co-authored with J. Rasbash and J. Jenkins) "A multilevel simultaneous equations model for within-cluster dynamic effects, with an application to reciprocal parent-child and sibling effects", ''Psychological Methods'', vol. 18, no. 1 (2013), pp. 87–100. * (Co-authored with W. Sigle-Rushton and Ø. Kravdal) "Consequences of family disruption on children's educational outcomes in Norway", ''Demography'', vol. 46, no. 3 (2009), pp. 553–74. * (Co-authored with D. J. Bartholomew, I. Moustaki and J. Galbraith) ''Analysis of Multivariate Social Science Data'', 2nd edition (CRC Press, 2008).

References

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