Английская Википедия:Brenda MacGibbon

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Kathryn Brenda MacGibbon-Taylor (July 31, 1944 – October 7, 2022) was a Canadian mathematician, statistician, and decision scientist. She was a professor of mathematics at the Université du Québec à MontréalШаблон:R and was affiliated with the Group for Research in Decision Analysis.Шаблон:R

Education and career

MacGibbon began her career in pure mathematics, at McGill University. She earned a master's degree there in 1966, working with Michael Herschorn on differential equations,Шаблон:R and completed a Ph.D. in 1970, with a dissertation on topology supervised by Donald A. Dawson.Шаблон:R

As well as McGill and the Université du Québec à Montréal, she has also been affiliated with the Department of Decision Sciences and Management Information Systems at Concordia University in Montreal, where she was hired in 1986.Шаблон:R By 1993 she had moved to the Université du Québec à Montréal.Шаблон:R

Research

Although MacGibbon's research has covered a wide range of topics in statistics,Шаблон:R including applications of statistics in the study of premenstrual syndrome,Шаблон:R and the use of smart shoes to monitor the rehabilitation of patients with hip fractures,Шаблон:R she was particularly known for her work in theoretical statistics on minimax estimators with constrained parameters.Шаблон:R

Recognition

MacGibbon became the first woman to chair the Statistical Sciences Grant Selection Committee of the Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, in 1993.Шаблон:R She was a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.Шаблон:R

Personal life

MacGibbon was married to John Taylor, with whom she had 3 children. She died from complications of Alzheimer's disease and ALS on October 7, 2022, at the age of 78.