Marti J. Anderson is an American researcher based in New Zealand. Her ecological statistical works is interdisciplinary, ranging from marine biology and ecology to mathematical and applied statistics. Her core areas of research and expertise are: community ecology, biodiversity, multivariate analysis, resampling methods, experimental designs, and statistical models of species abundances. She is a Distinguished Professor in the New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study at

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and also the Director of the New Zealand research and software-development company, PRIMER-e (Quest Research Limited).

Academic career

Marti J. Anderson completed a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Biology at

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in 1991, advised b
Dr Gary Martin
She then pursued a Graduate Diploma of Science (Honours) in Zoology at the

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in Australia, going on to complete a PhD in Marine Ecology supervised b
Professor Antony J. Underwood
(completed in 1997). Following this, she was awarded a U2000 Postdoctoral Fellowship to continue her work in marine science as part of the Centre for Ecological Impacts of Coastal Cities at the

. During this time, she also completed a Master of Arts (MA) in Mathematical Statistics supervised b
Professor John Robinson
(completed in 1999). In 1999, she began a full-time academic position as Lecturer in th

at the

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, rising to Associate Professor in 2007. She was appointed to a Professorial Chair in Statistics at the Institute for Information and Mathematical Sciences (IIMS) at

's Albany campus in 2009. She was the first woman to be appointed to a full-time Professorial position in New Zealand in any of the fields of Mathematics, Statistics or Computer Science. She became a member of the Professoriate in the New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study (NZIAS) in 2011, and soon thereafter (2013), she was elected a

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. In 2015 she was awarded a

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for work on multivariate statistical models of ecological communities. She was awarded the title of Distinguished Professor by Massey University in 2018. Marti J. Anderson is also the sole Director of the New Zealand research and software-development compan
PRIMER-e
(Quest Research Limited).

Selected works

* * * Anderson, Marti, Ray N. Gorley, and Robert K. Clarke. Permanova+ for Primer: Guide to Software and Statistical Methods. Primer-E Limited, 2008. * * *

References

External links

Anderson on Introductions Necessary
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