Marie Davidian is an American
biostatistician
Biostatistics (also known as biometry) are the development and application of statistical methods to a wide range of topics in biology. It encompasses the design of biological experiments, the collection and analysis of data from those experimen ...
known for her work in
longitudinal data analysis and
precision medicine
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* Accuracy and precision, measurement deviation from true value and its scatter
* Significant figures, the number of digit ...
. She is the J. Stuart Hunter Distinguished Professor of Statistics at
North Carolina State University
North Carolina State University (NC State) is a public land-grant research university in Raleigh, North Carolina. Founded in 1887 and part of the University of North Carolina system, it is the largest university in the Carolinas. The universi ...
. She was president of the
American Statistical Association
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for 2013.
Education and career
Davidian was born in
Washington, D.C.
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She did her undergraduate studies at the
University of Virginia
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, initially in
mechanical engineering
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but changing her major to
applied mathematics
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after becoming fascinated by statistics in a class taught by David P. Harrington.
She completed her PhD in 1986 from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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, under the supervision of
Raymond J. Carroll
Raymond James Carroll is an American statistician, and Distinguished Professor of statistics, nutrition and toxicology at Texas A&M University. He is a recipient of 1988 COPSS Presidents' Award and 2002 R. A. Fisher Lectureship. He has made fun ...
, with a dissertation on ''Variance Function Estimation in Heteroscedastic Regression Models''.
She joined the North Carolina State faculty in 1987,
and also holds an adjunct professorship at
Duke University.
Books
Davidian is the author of ''Nonlinear Models for Repeated Measurement Data'' (with D. M. Giltinan, CRC Press, 1995) and editor of ''Longitudinal Data Analysis'' (with Fitzmaurice, Verbeke, and Molenberghs, CRC Press 2008).
Awards and honors
Davidian is a fellow of the
American Statistical Association
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, the
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
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, and the
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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, and an elected member of the
International Statistical Institute
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.
She is the 2007 winner of the Janet L. Norwood Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Statistical Sciences,
the 2009 winner of the
George W. Snedecor Award
The Snedecor Award, named after George W. Snedecor, is given by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies to a statistician for contribution to biometry.
Winners
* 1977: A. P. Dawid
* 1978: Bruce W. Turnbull
* 1979: Ethel S. Gilb ...
"for fundamental contributions to the theory and methodology of longitudinal data, especially nonlinear mixed effects models; for significant contributions to the analysis of clinical trials and observational studies, and for leadership as president of ENAR, as editor, and as a member of the International Biometric Society council",
and the 2011 winner of the
Florence Nightingale David Award
The Florence Nightingale David Award is an award given every two years (in odd-numbered years) jointly by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies and Caucus for Women in Statistics to a distinguished female statistician.
Description
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"for important contributions to the development of methods for analyzing data from longitudinal studies and clinical trials, and for outstanding leadership and dedication to the statistical profession".
She was named Hunter Distinguished Professor in 2017, after previously holding the William Neal Reynolds Professorship since 2005.
References
External links
Home page*
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American statisticians
Women statisticians
University of Virginia alumni
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
North Carolina State University faculty
Duke University faculty
Elected Members of the International Statistical Institute
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Presidents of the American Statistical Association
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