Sally Ida McClean is a Northern Irish statistician, computer scientist, and operations researcher. She is a professor of mathematics in the school of computing at Ulster University, and a former president of the

Irish Statistical Association The Irish Statistical Association is a learned society which describes itself as "Ireland's primary professional association devoted to the interests of statistics and statisticians". It was established in 1997, as an outgrowth on the annual Conf ...

. Topics in her research include

workforce modeling {{peacock, date=January 2014 Workforce modeling is the process by which the need for skilled workers at a particular point in time (demand) is matched directly with the availability and preference of skilled workers (supply). The resulting mathemat ...

, health administration, interactive architecture, and survey methodology.

Education

McClean was born in Belfast. She earned an MA in mathematics from the University of Oxford in 1970 and an MSc in mathematical statistics and operations research from

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in 1972. She completed a Ph.D. in 1976 at the Ulster University at Coleraine. Her dissertation, ''Stochastic models of manpower planning applied to several British and Irish firms'', was supervised by Andrew Young.

Books

McClean's books include: *''Statistical techniques for manpower planning'' (2nd ed., with David J. Bartholomew and Andrew F. Forbes, Wiley, 1991) *''Questionnaire design: A practical introduction'' (with Noel Wilson, University of Ulster Press, 1994)

Recognition and service

McClean is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, and Fellow of the Operational Research Society. She was the second president of the

, serving as president from 1998 to 2000.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mcclean, Sally Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Irish statisticians Women statisticians Irish women computer scientists British women computer scientists Alumni of Queen's University Belfast Alumni of the University of Oxford Alumni of Cardiff University Alumni of Ulster University Academics of Ulster University