Rebecca Killick

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Rebecca Killick is a British statistician whose work concerns non-stationary processes and changepoint detection. They [1] are a professor of statistics at Lancaster University, [2] an affiliate of the centre for health informatics, computing, and statistics in the Lancaster University Medical School, [3] and co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Statistical Software . [4]

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Education and career

Killick completed a Ph.D. at Lancaster University in 2012, with the dissertation Novel methods for changepoint problems supervised by Idris Eckley. [5]

After a year as a postdoctoral researcher, she returned to Lancaster University as a lecturer in mathematics and statistics in 2013, and added an affiliation with the centre for health informatics, computing, and statistics in 2021. [3] She was promoted to full professor in 2022. [6]

Recognition

Killick was named as 2019 Young Statistician of the Year by the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics. [7] She was elected to the UK Young Academy in 2023, as part of its inaugural cohort of members. [8]

References

  1. ↑ Killick uses they/them/their pronouns; see their Lancaster University Medical School profile.
  2. ↑ "Professor Rebecca Killick", Mathematical Sciences people, Lancaster University, retrieved 2025-07-31
  3. 1 2 "Rebecca Killick", Medical School people, Lancaster University, retrieved 2025-07-31
  4. ↑ Journal of Statistical Software, Foundation for Open Access Statistics, retrieved 2025-07-31
  5. ↑ Rebecca Killick at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ↑ "Rebecca Killick becomes a Professor of Statistics", Centre for Marketing Analytics and Forecasting, Lancaster University, 8 August 2022, retrieved 2025-07-31
  7. ↑ Lancaster statistician first from UK to achieve a prestigious European accolade, Lancaster University, 22 March 2019, retrieved 2025-07-31
  8. ↑ Lancaster statistician joins first UK-wide 'Young Academy', Lancaster University, 10 January 2023, retrieved 2025-07-31
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