Rebecca DerSimonian

Rebecca R. DerSimonian is an American statistician, known for her work with Nan Laird introducing the random-effects model for meta-analysis and, in their 1986 paper "Meta-analysis in clinical trials" applying meta-analysis to clinical trials.[1] She is a biostatistician in the National Institutes of Health.[2]

DerSimonian graduated in 1974 from Brandeis University,[3] and earned a Ph.D. in 1983 at Harvard University.[1] At the National Institutes of Health, she has also been active in supporting women researchers, as a member of its Women Scientist Advisors Committee and as an organizer of communications workshops for women.[4]

In 1988, as an assistant professor at Yale University, and again in 1993–1994, as a researcher with the National Institutes of Health, she visited Armenia for four months each as a Fulbright Scholar.[5] In 2017 she was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[2]

References
  1. 30 Year Celebration of Dersimonian/Laird Paper, Harvard Department of Biostatistics, June 6, 2016, retrieved 2020-06-04
  2. ASA Bestows Prestigious Fellow Designation Upon 62 Statisticians, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2020-06-04
  3. "Class Notes: '74", Brandeis Review, vol. 13, no. 3, p. 57, Winter 1993
  4. Anderson, Linda F. (March–April 1996), "Talking the Talk, Communication Skills for Women Scientists", NIH Catalyst, vol. 4, no. 2, retrieved 2020-06-04
  5. Fulbright Scholars directory 1987–1988 (PDF), p. 43, retrieved 2020-06-04; Fulbright Scholars directory 1993–1994 (PDF), p. 50, retrieved 2020-06-04
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