Nell Sedransk

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Nell Sedransk is an American statistician who directed the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS). [1] [2] She continues to work at NISS, [3] and is a research professor of statistics at North Carolina State University. [4] Her research interests include Bayesian inference and experimental design for complex experiments, and includes participation in a study of reading comprehension. [5]

Sedransk earned her Ph.D. from Iowa State University. [1] Her 1969 dissertation was Contributions to discriminant analysis. [6] Before joining the National Institute of Statistical Sciences in 2005, [1] she was a professor of statistics at Case Western Reserve University and then, since 2000, the Chief of the Statistical Engineering Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. [7] She directed NISS from 2015 to 2017. [3]

In 2002 she was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association; her husband, Joseph Sedransk, had achieved the same honor in 1981. [8] She is also an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Nell Sedransk Named New Director of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences", Amstat News, American Statistical Association, November 1, 2015, retrieved 2017-11-21
  2. 1 2 Nell Sedransk, National Institute of Statistical Sciences, 2009-04-09, retrieved 2017-11-21
  3. 1 2 "NISS Welcomes James Rosenberger as New Director", Amstat News, American Statistical Association, October 1, 2017, retrieved 2017-11-21
  4. ↑ Faculty directory, North Carolina State University Department of Statistics, retrieved 2017-11-21
  5. ↑ "People", Online Reading Comprehension Assessments, University of Connecticut, retrieved 2017-11-22
  6. ↑ Sedransk, Nell (1969), "Contributions to discriminant analysis", Retrospective Theses and Dissertations, Iowa State University Digital Repository, doi: 10.31274/rtd-180813-1626 , retrieved 2017-11-21
  7. ↑ Author biography from Zhang, Nien Fan; Sedransk, N.; Jarrett, D.G. (April 2003), "Statistical uncertainty analysis of key comparison ccem-k2", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 52 (2): 491–494, Bibcode:2003ITIM...52..491Z, doi: 10.1109/tim.2003.811669
  8. ↑ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, archived from the original on 2017-12-01, retrieved 2017-11-21
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