Nancy Reid OC FRS FRSC
Nancy Reid at theRoyal Society admissions day in London, July 2018
Born	Nancy Margaret Reid (1952-09-17)September 17, 1952 (age 73) St. Catharines, Ontario,Canada
Alma mater	University of Waterloo University of British Columbia Stanford University (PhD)
Spouse	Donald A. S. Fraser
Awards	COPSS Presidents' Award (1992) Krieger–Nelson Prize (1995) Florence Nightingale David Award (2009) COPSS Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship (2023)
Scientific career
Fields	Statistical Sciences
Institutions	University of British Columbia,University of Toronto
Thesis	Influence Functions for Censored Data (1979)
Doctoral advisor	Rupert G. Miller Jr.[1]
Doctoral students	Ana-Maria Staicu
Website	utstat.toronto.edu/reid/

Nancy Margaret ReidOC FRS FRSC^[2] (born September 17, 1952^[3]) is a Canadian theoreticalstatistician. She is a professor at theUniversity of Toronto where she holds aCanada Research Chair in Statistical Theory.^[4][5] In 2015 Reid became Director of theCanadian Institute for Statistical Sciences.^[6][7]

Reid has served as President of theInstitute of Mathematical Statistics and theStatistical Society of Canada.^[6] She isco-editor of theAnnual Review of Statistics and Its Application.^[8]

In 1992, Reid received theCOPSS Presidents' Award for outstanding contributions to statistics.^[9] She is a Fellow of theRoyal Society, theRoyal Society of Edinburgh, and theRoyal Society of Canada; a Foreign Associate of theNational Academy of Sciences; and anOfficer of the Order of Canada.^[10]

Nancy Reid was born inSt. Catharines, Ontario,Canada. She studied mathematics and statistics at theUniversity of Waterloo, earning her B.Math in 1974. She earned her M.Sc. at theUniversity of British Columbia in 1976. AtStanford University she worked withRupert G. Miller, Jr., receiving her Ph.D. in 1979. Reid did postdoctoral work withDavid Cox at theImperial College London from 1979 to 1980.^[6][5][1]

From 1980 to 1985, Reid was anassociate professor at theUniversity of British Columbia. She then joined theUniversity of Toronto and has remained there ever since, becoming afull professor in 1988.^[3]

Reid was the first woman to hold aCanada Research Chair in statistics.^[11]As Chair of the “Long Range Plan Steering Committee for Mathematics and Statistics” Reid shaped Canadian national policy on mathematical sciences, leading to the creation of the virtual distributedCanadian Institute for Statistical Sciences (CANSSI) in 2012. She has been the Director of CANSSI since 2015.^[6][7]

Reid studies the foundations and properties of methods of statistical inference in order to discover how inferential statements can accurately and effectively summarize complex data sets.^[5][12]

Reid served as Editor-in-Chief ofThe Canadian Journal of Statistics from 1995 to 1997^[6] and theAnnual Review of Statistics and Its Application (2018–).^[8] She served as President of theInstitute of Mathematical Statistics (1996–1997),and of theStatistical Society of Canada (2004–2005).^[6]

Reid won theCOPSS Presidents' Award in 1992,^[9]theKrieger–Nelson Prize in 1995,^[13] theStatistical Society of Canada Gold Medal^[14] andFlorence Nightingale David Award^[15] in 2009, and theStatistical Society of Canada Distinguished Service Award in 2013.^[16]She was made anOfficer of the Order of Canada (awarded 2014, invested 2015) "for her leadership in the field of statistical inference, which has helped to facilitate sound public policy decision making."^[10]

In 2022, Reid won theGuy medal in Gold "for her pioneering work on higher-order approximate inference which provides a foundational basis for optimal information extraction from data, and has wide-ranging impact on the practice of data analysis".^[17][18]

In 1989 she was elected as aFellow of the American Statistical Association.^[19] She was elected a Fellow of theRoyal Society of Canada in 2001.^[20] She is also a Fellow of theInstitute of Mathematical Statistics.^[21] In 2015 she was elected a CorrespondingFellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh,^[22] and in 2016 a foreign associate of theUnited States National Academy of Sciences.^[23] She was elected aFellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018.^[2]

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• Hinkley, D. V.; Reid, N.; Snell, E. J., eds. (1991).Statistical theory and modelling : in honour of Sir David Cox, FRS. London: Chapman and Hall.ISBN 0-412-30590-9.OCLC 23213733.
• Cox, David R.; Reid, Nancy (2000).The theory of the design of experiments. Boca Raton: Chapman & Hall/CRC.ISBN 1-58488-195-X.OCLC 43864220.
• Brazzale, A. R.; Davison, A. C.; Reid, N. (2007).Applied asymptotics : case studies in small-sample statistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.ISBN 978-0-511-28670-4.OCLC 166126731.

• Reid, Nancy (1981)."Influence Functions for Censored Data".The Annals of Statistics.9 (1):78–92.doi:10.1214/aos/1176345334.ISSN 0090-5364.JSTOR 2240871.
• Reid, N.; Crépeau, H. (1985)."Influence functions for proportional hazards regression".Biometrika.72 (1):1–9.doi:10.1093/biomet/72.1.1.ISSN 0006-3444.
• Cox, D. R.; Reid, N. (1987)."Parameter Orthogonality and Approximate Conditional Inference".Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (Methodological).49 (1):1–18.doi:10.1111/j.2517-6161.1987.tb01422.x.
• Reid, N. (1988)."Saddlepoint Methods and Statistical Inference".Statistical Science.3 (2).doi:10.1214/ss/1177012906.ISSN 0883-4237.
• Fraser, D. A. S.; Reid, N. (1993)."Third order asymptotic models: Likelihood functions leading to accurate approximations for distribution functions".Statistica Sinica.3 (1):67–82.ISSN 1017-0405.JSTOR 24304938.
• Reid, N. (1995)."The Roles of Conditioning in Inference".Statistical Science.10 (2).doi:10.1214/ss/1177010027.ISSN 0883-4237.
• Reid, N. (2003)."Asymptotics and the theory of inference".The Annals of Statistics.31 (6).doi:10.1214/aos/1074290325.ISSN 0090-5364.
• Ghosh, M.; Reid, N.; Fraser, D. A. S. (2010)."Ancillary statistics: a review".Statistica Sinica.20 (4):1309–1332.ISSN 1017-0405.JSTOR 24309506.
• Reid, Nancy (2013)."Aspects of likelihood inference".Bernoulli.19 (4):1404–1418.arXiv:1309.7816.doi:10.3150/12-BEJSP03.ISSN 1350-7265.JSTOR 23525757.S2CID 16144546.
• Tang, Yanbo; Reid, Nancy (2020)."Modified Likelihood root in High Dimensions".Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology.82 (5):1349–1369.doi:10.1111/rssb.12389.ISSN 1369-7412.S2CID 225500790.

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