Nell Sedransk is an American statistician who directed the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS). [1] [2] She continues to work at NISS, [3] and is a research professor of statistics at North Carolina State University. [4] Her research interests include Bayesian inference and experimental design for complex experiments, and includes participation in a study of reading comprehension. [5]
Sedransk earned her Ph.D. from Iowa State University. [1] Her 1969 dissertation was Contributions to discriminant analysis. [6] Before joining the National Institute of Statistical Sciences in 2005, [1] she was a professor of statistics at Case Western Reserve University and then, since 2000, the Chief of the Statistical Engineering Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. [7] She directed NISS from 2015 to 2017. [3]
In 2002 she was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association; her husband, Joseph Sedransk, had achieved the same honor in 1981. [8] She is also an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. [2]
References
- ^ a b c "Nell Sedransk Named New Director of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences", Amstat News, American Statistical Association, November 1, 2015, retrieved 2017-11-21
- ^ a b Nell Sedransk, National Institute of Statistical Sciences, 2009-04-09, retrieved 2017-11-21
- ^ a b "NISS Welcomes James Rosenberger as New Director", Amstat News, American Statistical Association, October 1, 2017, retrieved 2017-11-21
- ^ Faculty directory, North Carolina State University Department of Statistics, retrieved 2017-11-21
- ^ "People", Online Reading Comprehension Assessments, University of Connecticut, retrieved 2017-11-22
- ^ Sedransk, Nell (1969), "Contributions to discriminant analysis", Retrospective Theses and Dissertations, Iowa State University Digital Repository, doi: 10.31274/rtd-180813-1626, retrieved 2017-11-21
- ^ Author biography from Zhang, Nien Fan; Sedransk, N.; Jarrett, D.G. (April 2003), "Statistical uncertainty analysis of key comparison ccem-k2", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 52 (2): 491–494, Bibcode: 2003ITIM...52..491Z, doi: 10.1109/tim.2003.811669
- ^ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, archived from the original on 2017-12-01, retrieved 2017-11-21