Alexandra M. Schmidt | |
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Education | Federal University of Rio de Janeiro University of Sheffield |
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Fields | Biostatistics |
Institutions | McGill University Federal University of Rio de Janeiro |
Thesis | Bayesian Spatial Interpolation of Pollution Monitoring Stations (2001) |
Doctoral advisor | Tony O'Hagan |
Website | alex-schmidt |
Alexandra M. (Alex) Schmidt is a Brazilian statistician who works as a professor of biostatistics at McGill University in Canada.[1] She is known for her research on spatiotemporal and multivariate statistics and their applications in environmental statistics and epidemiology.[2]
Schmidt earned bachelor's and master's degrees in statistics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 1994 and 1996 respectively.[1] She completed her Ph.D. in statistics in 2001 at the University of Sheffield. Her dissertation, Bayesian Spatial Interpolation of Pollution Monitoring Stations, was supervised by Tony O'Hagan.[1][3]
She was a faculty member at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro[4] before moving to McGill in 2016.[1]
Schmidt became an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute in 2010.[1][5] She was president of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis for the 2015 term.[4] She was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2020.[6]
In 2017 the Section on Statistics and the Environment of the American Statistical Association gave Schmidt their Distinguished Achievement Medal "for fundamental contributions to the development of spatio-temporal process theory, most notably to the theory of multivariate processes through coregionalization as well as the modelling of spatial covariance matrices; for related applications to the environmental and ecological science, and for service to the profession."[2]
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