Mary C. Meyer

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Mary C. Meyer is an American statistician. She is known for both theoretical and computational research in nonparametric statistics and density estimation, especially for densities with shape constraints such as convexity or monotonicity. [1] She is a professor of statistics at Colorado State University. [2]

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Education and career

Meyer obtained her Ph.D. in 1996 from the University of Michigan, under the supervision of Michael Woodroofe. Her dissertation was Shape-Restricted Inference with Applications to Nonparametric Regression, Smooth Nonparametric Function Estimation, and Density Estimation. [3] She was a faculty member in statistics at the University of Georgia before moving to Colorado State University. [1]

While a statistics professor at Colorado State University, Meyer declared that a study of salaries by CSU created salary goals for women faculty that were "substantially smaller than for men". [4] [5] This led CSU to start studying pay equity in 2015, which in turn led later that year to a quarter of female full professors receiving higher pay. [6] She has also led faculty opposition to increases in athletic spending by the university. [7]

Book

Meyer is the author of the textbook Probability and Mathematical Statistics: Theory, Applications, and Practice in R (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2019). [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 Mason Statistics welcomes eight new faculty, George Mason University, October 26, 2021, retrieved 2022-05-08
  2. "Faculty & staff", Department of Statistics, Colorado State University, retrieved 2022-05-08
  3. Mary C. Meyer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Coltrain, Nick. "Professor: CSU study based pay goals on gender". The Coloradoan.
  5. Coltrain, Nick (November 19, 2017), "CSU reports it's closing gender pay gap", The Coloradoan
  6. Coltrain, Nick. "CSU reports it's closing gender pay gap". The Coloradoan.
  7. Lyell, Kelly (February 21, 2020), "Colorado State faculty ask university leaders to cut athletic spending in historic vote", The Coloradoan
  8. Reviews of Probability and Mathematical Statistics: Hans Christian Fünning (in German), Zbl   1479.60001; James E. Helmreich, MAA Reviews