Amarjot Kaur

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Amarjot Kaur
NationalityIndian
Alma mater Panjab University
Occupation Statistician
Employer Merck Research Laboratories

Amarjot Kaur is an Indian statistician who in 2016 became the president of the International Indian Statistical Association. She works for Merck Research Laboratories, [1] as Executive Director of Clinical Biostatistics and Research Decision Sciences. [2] She is also the 2017 treasurer of the American Statistical Association, [3] and in 2013 she chaired the American Statistical Association Community of Applied Statisticians. [4]

Before joining Merck, Kaur earned her Ph.D. at Panjab University in Chandigarh, India, [5] where she also worked as a lecturer. [2] At Panjab, in the 1990s, Kaur published research in mathematical statistics on tests for stochastic dominance. [T2O] She joined Merck after postdoctoral research at Pennsylvania State University. [2] At Merck, she became the chief statistician on the Multinational Etoricoxib and Diclofenac Arthritis Long-term (MEDAL) programme, a large international study of treatments for arthritis. [CVO]

In 2014, she was elected to be a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. [6]

Selected publications

T2O.Kaur, Amarjot; Rao, B. L. S. Prakasa; Singh, Harshinder (December 1994), "Testing for second-order stochastic dominance of two distributions", Econometric Theory, 10 (5): 849–866, doi:10.1017/S0266466600008884, JSTOR   3532856
CVO.Cannon, Christopher P; Curtis, Sean P; FitzGerald, Garret A; Krum, Henry; Kaur, Amarjot; Bolognese, James A; Reicin, Alise S; Bombardier, Claire; Weinblatt, Michael E; Van Der Heijde, Désirée; et al. (MEDAL programme steering committee) (2006), "Cardiovascular outcomes with etoricoxib and diclofenac in patients with osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis in the Multinational Etoricoxib and Diclofenac Arthritis Long-term (MEDAL) programme: a randomised comparison", The Lancet, 368 (9549): 1771–1781, doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(06)69666-9, PMID   17113426, S2CID   18464206

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