Nicole Alana Lazar (born December 14, 1966, in Washington, D.C.) is a statistician who holds triple citizenship as an American, Canadian, and Israeli.[1] She is a professor of statistics at Pennsylvania State University.[2] Previously she was a professor at the University of Georgia, where she was interim Department Head of the statistics department from 2014 to 2016.[2] Her research interests include empirical likelihood, functional neuroimaging, model selection and the history and sociology of statistics.[3]

Lazar graduated magnum cum laude from Tel Aviv University in 1988. After earning a master's degree in statistics from Stanford University in 1993,[1] she completed her Ph.D. in 1996 at the University of Chicago, under the supervision of Per Mykland.[1][4] She joined the Carnegie Mellon University faculty in 1996, and moved to Georgia in 2004.[1] In 2015 she became editor-in-chief of The American Statistician.[5]

She is the author of a book, The Statistical Analysis of Functional MRI Data (Springer, 2008).[6][7][8] One of her columns, "The Arts: Digitized, Quantified, and Analyzed", was selected for the anthology The Best Writing on Mathematics 2014.[9]

In 2014 she was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association "for foundational statistical contributions to the area of empirical likelihood; for the development of new statistical methods for the analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data; and for developing, reforming, and enhancing statistical education."[10] In 2021 she was named a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.[11]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Curriculum vitae Archived 2017-08-30 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 2016-07-14.
  2. 1 2 Archived 2023-06-10 at the Wayback Machine, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Statistics, retrieved 2024-01-03
  3. ↑ Faculty profile Archived 2016-08-01 at the Wayback Machine, University of Georgia Department of Statistics, retrieved 2016-07-14.
  4. ↑ Nicole Lazar at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ↑ ASA announces new editors of three journals, American Statistical Association, June 5, 2014, retrieved 2016-07-14.
  6. ↑ Thompson, Wesley K. (March 2009), "The Statistical Analysis of Functional MRI Data by Lazar, N. A.", Book Reviews, Biometrics, 65 (1): 334–335, doi:10.1111/j.1541-0420.2009.01208_9.x.
  7. ↑ Achard, Sophie (January 2009), "The Statistical Analysis of Functional MRI Data", Book Review 3, Journal of Statistical Software, 29, doi:10.18637/jss.v029.b03
  8. ↑ Ghosh, Jayanta K. (August 2009), "The Statistical Analysis of Functional MRI Data by Nicole A. Lazar", International Statistical Review, 77 (2): 312–313, doi:10.1111/j.1751-5823.2009.00085_14.x.
  9. ↑ Congratulations to Columnist Nicole Lazar and CHANCE, Scott Evans, American Statistical Association, November 2014, retrieved 2016-07-14.
  10. ↑ ASA Honors 63 New Fellows (PDF), American Statistical Association, June 11, 2014, archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016, retrieved 2016-07-11.
  11. ↑ IMS names 2021 Fellows, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, retrieved October 14, 2021
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