International Prize in
Statistics( Some people call it Nobel prize of Statistics) has been
awarded to US biostatistician Nan Laird Professor of Biostatistics
(Emerita) at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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With this ,Nan Laird became First Woman To Receive the International Prize in Statistics
She has been awarded by this prize because of her groundbreaking work that made possible the analysis of complex longitudinal data.
Longitudinal data stands for data that is collected sequentially from the same respondents over time (For example : Data collected by observing symptoms of a group of patients for long time period)
Her work , which has come up in 1982, has been a great help to solving problem with random effect in longitudinal data coming from various fields such as Medical, Clinical Trials, Psychology ,Oncology etc.
Conversations with Jim Ware and Nan Laird - Longitudinal Studies
