Marian Scott | |
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Born | Ethel Marian Scott 1956 (age 67–68) Scotland |
Alma mater | University of Glasgow |
Known for | environmental statistics |
Awards |
FRSE (2005) OBE (2009) Barnett Award (2019) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | environmental statistics |
Doctoral advisor | Murdoch Baxter and Tom Aitchison |
Ethel Marian Scott, OBE, FRSE (born July 1956) [1] is a Scottish statistician, author and academic, specialising in environmental statistics and statistical modelling. She is Professor of Environmental Statistics at the University of Glasgow. [2] [3] She is additionally vice-president (International) of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, [4] [5] and a member of the Scottish Science Advisory Council. [6]
Scott has a degree in statistics and a PhD from the University of Glasgow. Her thesis was on the sources of error in radiocarbon dating, and was supervised by Murdoch Baxter and Tom Aitchison. [7]
Her research interests include model uncertainty and sensitivity analysis, modelling how pollutants disperse in the environment, radiocarbon dating and assessing animal welfare.
In 2005, Scott was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), Scotland's national academy of science and letters. [8] In the 2009 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to social science. [9]
Professor Scott was awarded the Royal Statistical Society Barnett Award in 2019 [10] for "her outstanding, pioneering research into the application of innovative statistical techniques to environmental issues."
Marian Scott | |
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Born | Ethel Marian Scott 1956 (age 67–68) Scotland |
Alma mater | University of Glasgow |
Known for | environmental statistics |
Awards |
FRSE (2005) OBE (2009) Barnett Award (2019) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | environmental statistics |
Doctoral advisor | Murdoch Baxter and Tom Aitchison |
Ethel Marian Scott, OBE, FRSE (born July 1956) [1] is a Scottish statistician, author and academic, specialising in environmental statistics and statistical modelling. She is Professor of Environmental Statistics at the University of Glasgow. [2] [3] She is additionally vice-president (International) of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, [4] [5] and a member of the Scottish Science Advisory Council. [6]
Scott has a degree in statistics and a PhD from the University of Glasgow. Her thesis was on the sources of error in radiocarbon dating, and was supervised by Murdoch Baxter and Tom Aitchison. [7]
Her research interests include model uncertainty and sensitivity analysis, modelling how pollutants disperse in the environment, radiocarbon dating and assessing animal welfare.
In 2005, Scott was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), Scotland's national academy of science and letters. [8] In the 2009 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to social science. [9]
Professor Scott was awarded the Royal Statistical Society Barnett Award in 2019 [10] for "her outstanding, pioneering research into the application of innovative statistical techniques to environmental issues."