Nancy Reid
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About
Statistician who served as president of both the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Statistical Society of Canada.
Before Fame
She studied at the University of Waterloo and the University of British Columbia before receiving her Ph.D. in statistics from Stanford University in 1979.
Trivia
She was the first female recipient of the 1992 Committee of Statistical Societies' Presidents' Award.
Family Life
She was born and raised in Canada, and she taught for five years at the University of British Columbia before joining the faculty at the University of Toronto.
Associated With
She and her contemporary and fellow statistician, Mir Ali, both studied and taught in Canada.