Agnes M. Herzberg

Agnes Margaret Herzberg
Born
Agnes Margaret Herzberg

1938 (age 86–87)
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Known for
Parent(s)Gerhard Herzberg (father)
Luise Oettinger (mother)
AwardsFellow of the American Statistical Association (1983)
Academic background
EducationQueen's University
University of Saskatchewan
Doctoral advisorNorman Shklov
Academic work
InstitutionsQueen's University

Agnes Margaret Herzberg (born 1938) is a Canadian statistician who works as a professor of mathematics and statistics at Queen's University.[1] She was president of the Statistical Society of Canada for 1991–1992,[2] its first female president.[3]

Early life and family

Herzberg was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1938.[4][5] She is the daughter of German-Canadian physicist Gerhard Herzberg and spectroscopist Luise Oettinger.[citation needed]

Education and career

Herzberg did her undergraduate studies at Queen's University before earning master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Saskatchewan,[1] under the supervision of Norman Shklov. She took an Overseas Fellowship in 1966, taking her to England, and remained at Imperial College London until 1988, when she returned to Queen's as a professor.[3]

Beyond her work in statistics, Herzberg has also used graph coloring and chromatic polynomials to analyze the mathematics of Sudoku.[6][7]

Honours and awards

In 1983 she was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[8] She became a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1990.[9] She is also a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics[10] and an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute.[11] In 1999 the Statistical Society of Canada gave her their Distinguished Service Award, the first to a woman,[3] and in 2007 the society named her as an Honorary Member "for fundamental contributions to the design of experiments, applied statistics and data analysis; for her organization and leadership of conferences on statistics, science and public policy, and for dedicated service to the international statistical community".[2] Additionally, a conference in her honour was held at Queen's University in 2004.[12]

Publications

  • An introduction to wavelets with applications to Andrews (Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, November 1995, doi:10.1016/0377-0427(95)00005-4
  • Identifying Which Sets of Parameters are Simultaneously Estimable in an Incomplete Factorial Design (Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D (The Statistician), January 1995, doi:10.2307/2348894)
  • An optimal experimental design for the Haar regression model (Canadian Journal of Statistics, September 1994, doi:10.2307/3315597)
  • Incomplete factorial designs for randomized clinical trials (Statistics in Medicine, September 1993, doi:10.1002/sim.4780121708)
  • Optimum Experimental Designs for Properties of a Compartmental Model (Biometrics, July 1993, doi:10.2307/2532547)
  • Discussion of the paper «The foundation of experimental design and observation» by H. P. Wynn (Journal of the Italian Statistical Society, June 1993, doi:10.1007/BF02589237)
  • Erratum: Cage Allocation Designs for Rodent Carcinogenicity Experiments (Environmental Health Perspectives, August 1992, doi:10.2307/3431232)
  • Cage allocation designs for rodent carcinogenicity experiments (Environmental Health Perspectives, July 1992, doi:10.1289/ehp.97-1519551)

References

  1. ^ a b Faculty profile Archived 2016-10-23 at the Wayback Machine, Queen's University, retrieved 2016-10-22.
  2. ^ a b Prof. Agnes M. Herzberg, Honorary Member 2007, Statistical Society of Canada, retrieved 2016-10-22.
  3. ^ a b c Thompson, Mary E. (2014), "Reflections on women in statistics in Canada", in Lin, Xihong; Genest, Christian; Banks, David L.; Molenberghs, Geert; Scott, David W.; Wang, Jane-Ling (eds.), Past, Present, and Future of Statistical Science, CRC Press, pp. 203–216, ISBN 9781482204988. See in particular p. 207.
  4. ^ Stoicheff, Boris P. (January 2003). "Gerhard Herzberg PC CC. 25 December 1904 – 3 March 1999". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 49: 179–195. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2003.0011. ISSN 0080-4606. S2CID 72703418.
  5. ^ "Gerhard Herzberg | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2022-10-15.
  6. ^ Sudoku Proves to Be Good for You, Mathematically Speaking, Mathematical Association of America, June 22, 2007, retrieved 2016-10-22.
  7. ^ Benedict, Brandy (June 26, 2007), "Sudoku flexes math muscles", Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, archived from the original on October 23, 2016, retrieved October 23, 2016
  8. ^ View/Search Fellows of the ASA Archived 2016-06-16 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 2016-10-22.
  9. ^ "AAAS Members Elected as Fellows in 1990", Science, 247 (4946): 1099, March 2, 1990, doi:10.1126/science.247.4946.1099
  10. ^ Honored Fellows, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, archived from the original on 2014-03-02, retrieved 2017-11-24
  11. ^ Individual members, International Statistical Institute, retrieved 2019-12-14
  12. ^ Statistics Day: in honour of Agnes Herzberg, Queen's University, September 17, 2004, retrieved 2016-10-22.