Английская Википедия:Deborah A. Nolan

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Шаблон:Short description Deborah A. Nolan is an American statistician and statistics educator. She is a professor of statistics at the University of California, Berkeley, where she chairs the department of statistics.Шаблон:R

Education and career

Nolan graduated from Vassar College in 1977;Шаблон:R she gained her first experience in statistics in a summer job at Vassar, doing statistical analyses for author Caroline Bird. After graduating, she began working as an applications programmer for IBM. Needing to learn more statistics for her work, she studied at Columbia University for a year, and then entered full-time graduate study in statistics at Yale University.Шаблон:R At Yale, the applied side of her research included work confirming the logarithmic spiral shape of snail shells.Шаблон:R Her dissertation, supervised by David Pollard,Шаблон:R concerned central limit theorems,Шаблон:R and was titled U-Processes.Шаблон:R She completed her Ph.D. in 1986, and became a faculty member at Berkeley in the same year,Шаблон:R the first new female regular-rank faculty member in the department since Elizabeth Scott in 1951.Шаблон:R

Books

Nolan is the author of several statistics books:

  • Stat Labs: Mathematical Statistics Through Applications (with Terry Speed, Springer, 2000)Шаблон:R
  • Teaching Statistics: A Bag of Tricks (with Andrew Gelman, Oxford University Press, 2002)Шаблон:R
  • XML and Web Technologies for Data Sciences with R (with Duncan Temple Lang, Springer, 2014)Шаблон:R
  • Data Science in R: A Case Studies Approach to Computational Reasoning and Problem Solving (with Duncan Temple Lang, CRC Press, 2015)

Recognition

She is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.Шаблон:R

References

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External links

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