Merlise A. Clyde

Merlise Aycock Clyde is an American statistician known for her work in model averaging for Bayesian statistics. She is a Professor of Statistical Science and immediate past chair of the Department of Statistical Science at Duke University.[1] She was president of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) in 2013,[2] and chair of the Section on Bayesian Statistical Science of the American Statistical Association for 2018.[3]

Merlise Aycock Clyde
Alma mater
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
InstitutionsDuke University
ThesisBayesian Optimal Designs for Approximate Normality (1994)
Doctoral advisorKathryn Chaloner

Education

Clyde graduated from Oregon State University in 1985 with a Bachelor of Science in Forestry. She earned two master's degrees, one from the University of Alberta in 1986 in Forest Biometrics and another from the University of California, Riverside in 1988 in Statistics, before completing her Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota in 1993 in Statistics.[1] Her dissertation, supervised by Kathryn Chaloner, was Bayesian Optimal Designs for Approximate Normality[4], which received the Savage Award for outstanding dissertation in Bayesian econometrics and statistics in 1994.[5]

Awards and honors

Clyde is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, of ISBA,[1] and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.[6] She was one of two winners of the Zellner Medal of the ISBA in 2016 "for their outstanding service to ISBA".[7]

References
  1. "Merlise Clyde, Professor of Statistical Science", Faculty, Duke University Department of Statistical Science, retrieved 2017-10-25
  2. Past Officers, Board Members, and Appointments, retrieved 2017-10-25
  3. "Current Officers", Section on Bayesian Statistical Science, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2017-10-25
  4. Merlise A. Clyde at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. "Savage Award", ISBA, International Society for Bayesian Analysis
  6. Honored IMS Fellows, retrieved 2020-07-01
  7. MacEachern, Steve (June 2016), "A message from the president", ISBA Bulletin, 23 (2): 1–2
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