Karen Kafadar
Karen Kafadar is an American statistician. She is Commonwealth Professor of Statistics at the University of Virginia, and chair of the statistics department there. She was editor-in-chief of Technometrics from 1999 to 2001,[1] and was president of the International Association for Statistical Computing for 2011–2013.[2] In 2017 she was elected president of the American Statistical Association for the 2019 term.[3]
Education and career
Kafadar earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics and a master's degree in statistics from Stanford University, both in 1975.[3][4] She completed her PhD in statistics from Princeton University in 1979 under the supervision of John Tukey; her dissertation was Robust Confidence Intervals for the One- and Two- Sample Problem.[3][4][5] Before moving to the University of Virginia in 2014, Kafadar was Rudy Professor of Statistics at
Awards and honors
Kafadar is a fellow of the American Statistical Association (since 1994) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2012), and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (2007).[3][4]
References
- S2CID 6343441
- ^ IASC Presidents, retrieved 2017-10-10
- ^ a b c d e Talley, Jill (July 1, 2017), "Karen Kafadar Elected ASA President", AMStat News
- ^ a b c d Curriculum vitae (PDF), January 9, 2017, retrieved 2017-10-10
- ^ Karen Kafadar at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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