Gabrielle Elizabeth Kelly is an Irish statistician. She is currently a professor of statistics at University College Dublin, and the former president of the Irish Statistical Association.
Her research has included studies of the correlation between birth and death dates,[1] and on correlations between student attendance at university lectures and the time of day of the lecture.[2]
Education and career edit
Kelly earned her bachelor's and master's degrees at University College Cork,[3] and completed a Ph.D. in statistics at Stanford University in 1981. Her dissertation, The Influence Function in the Errors in Variables Problem, was supervised by Rupert G. Miller, Jr.[4]
She became a lecturer at University College Cork after completing her doctorate, moved to the department of biostatistics at Columbia University in 1985, moved again to the University College & Middlesex School of Medicine in 1987, and took her present position as professor at University College Dublin in 1990.[3]
Recognition and service edit
Kelly was the president of the Irish Statistical Association from 2016 to 2018.[5]
References edit
- ^ Winter, George (17 January 2019), "The association between our dates of birth and death", Irish Times
- ^ Kearins, Aoife (21 May 2019), "The Case for Abolishing 9am Lectures", University Times
- ^ a b Gabrielle Kelly, University College Dublin, retrieved 11 January 2020
- ^ Gabrielle Kelly at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Past ISA Presidents, Irish Statistical Association, retrieved 11 January 2020
External links edit
- Gabrielle Kelly publications indexed by Google Scholar