Ethel Marian Scott, (born July 1956) is a

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and academic, specialising in

environmental statistics Environment statistics is the application of statistical methods to environmental science. It covers procedures for dealing with questions concerning the natural environment in its undisturbed state, the interaction of humanity with the environmen ...

and

statistical modelling ''Statistical Modelling'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering statistical modelling. It is published by SAGE Publications on behalf of the Statistical Modelling Society. The editors-in-chief are Vicente Núñez-Antón ( Univers ...

. She is

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of Environmental Statistics at the

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. She is additionally vice-president (International) of the

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, and a member of the Scottish Science Advisory Council.

Biography

Scott has a degree in

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and a

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from the

. Her thesis was on the sources of error in

radiocarbon dating Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for Chronological dating, determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of carbon-14, radiocarbon, a radioactive Isotop ...

, and was supervised by Murdoch Baxter and Tom Aitchison. Her research interests include model uncertainty and sensitivity analysis, modelling how pollutants disperse in the environment, radiocarbon dating and assessing

animal welfare Animal welfare is the quality of life and overall well-being of animals. Formal standards of animal welfare vary between contexts, but are debated mostly by animal welfare groups, legislators, and academics. Animal welfare science uses measures ...

. In 2005, Scott was elected a

Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and Literature, letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". ...

(FRSE), Scotland's

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of science and letters. In the 2009 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed an

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(OBE) for services to social science. Professor Scott was awarded the

Royal Statistical Society The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) is an established statistical society. It has three main roles: a British learned society for statistics, a professional body for statisticians and a charity which promotes statistics for the public good. ...

Barnett Award in 2019 for "her outstanding, pioneering research into the application of innovative statistical techniques to environmental issues."

Selected works

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