Nancy Reid


Nancy Margaret Reid is a Canadian theoretical statistician.

Education

Reid was educated at the University of Waterloo, the University of British Columbia and Stanford University.

Career and research

From 1980-1985 Reid was an associate professor at the University of British Columbia, she then joined the University of Toronto and has remained there ever since, becoming a full professor in 1988. She served as President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1997, and of the Statistical Society of Canada in 2004–5.
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.

Awards and honours

Reid won the COPSS Presidents' Award in 1992, the Krieger–Nelson Prize in 1995, the Statistical Society of Canada Gold Medal and Florence Nightingale David Award in 2009, and the Statistical Society of Canada Distinguished Service Award in 2013.
In 1989 she was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2001. She is also a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. In 2015 she was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and in 2016 a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2018.