Agnes Margaret Herzberg (born 1938) is a Canadian statistician who works as a professor of mathematics and statistics at Queen's University.Faculty profile
, Queen's University, retrieved 2016-10-22. She was president of the Statistical Society of Canada for 1991–1992,Prof. Agnes M. Herzberg, Honorary Member 2007

Statistical Society of Canada The Statistical Society of Canada (SSC) (french: Société statistique du Canada) is a professional organization whose mission is to promote the use and development of statistics and probability. Its objectives are * to make the general public aw ...

, retrieved 2016-10-22. its first female president.. See in particula
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Early life and family

Herzberg was born in

Saskatoon Saskatoon () is the largest city in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It straddles a bend in the South Saskatchewan River in the central region of the province. It is located along the Trans-Canada Yellowhead Highway, and has served as th ...

Saskatchewan Saskatchewan ( ; ) is a province in western Canada, bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dak ...

in 1938. She is the daughter of German-Canadian physicist

Gerhard Herzberg Gerhard Heinrich Friedrich Otto Julius Herzberg, (; December 25, 1904 – March 3, 1999) was a German-Canadian pioneering physicist and physical chemist, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1971, "for his contributions to the knowledge o ...

and spectroscopist Luise Oettinger.

Education and career

Herzberg did her undergraduate studies at Queen's University before earning master's and doctoral degrees from the

University of Saskatchewan A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, ...

, under the supervision of Norman Shklov. She took an Overseas Fellowship in 1966, taking her to England, and remained at

Imperial College London Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who developed his vision for a cu ...

until 1988, when she returned to Queen's as a professor. Beyond her work in statistics, Herzberg has also used graph coloring and

chromatic polynomial The chromatic polynomial is a graph polynomial studied in algebraic graph theory, a branch of mathematics. It counts the number of graph colorings as a function of the number of colors and was originally defined by George David Birkhoff to s ...

s to analyze the

mathematics of Sudoku The mathematics of Sudoku refers to the use of mathematics to study Sudoku puzzles to answer questions such as ''"How many filled Sudoku grids are there?"'', "''What is the minimal number of clues in a valid puzzle?''" and ''"In what ways can S ...

Honours and awards

In 1983 she was elected as a

Fellow of the American Statistical Association Like many other academic professional societies, the American Statistical Association (ASA) uses the title of Fellow of the American Statistical Association as its highest honorary grade of membership. The number of new fellows per year is limited ...

. She became a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1990. She is also a Fellow of the

Institute of Mathematical Statistics The Institute of Mathematical Statistics is an international professional and scholarly society devoted to the development, dissemination, and application of statistics and probability. The Institute currently has about 4,000 members in all parts o ...

and an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute. In 1999 the

gave her their Distinguished Service Award, the first to a woman, 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". Additionally, a conference in her honour was held at Queen's University in 2004.Statistics Day: in honour of Agnes Herzberg
Queen's University, September 17, 2004, retrieved 2016-10-22.

Publications

* An introduction to wavelets with applications to Andrews (Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, November 1995, DO
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, DO
10.2307/2348894
* An optimal experimental design for the Haar regression model (Canadian Journal of Statistics, September 1994, DO
10.2307/3315597
* Incomplete factorial designs for randomized clinical trials (Statistics in Medicine, September 1993, DO
10.1002/sim.4780121708
* Optimum Experimental Designs for Properties of a Compartmental Model (Biometrics, July 1993, DO
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, DO
10.1007/BF02589237
* Erratum: Cage Allocation Designs for Rodent Carcinogenicity Experiments (Environmental Health Perspectives, August 1992, DO
10.2307/3431232
* Cage allocation designs for rodent carcinogenicity experiments (Environmental Health Perspectives, July 1992, DO
10.1289/ehp.97-1519551

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Herzberg, Agnes Margaret Living people Canadian statisticians Women statisticians Queen's University at Kingston alumni University of Saskatchewan alumni Academics of Imperial College London Academic staff of Queen's University at Kingston Elected Members of the International Statistical Institute Fellows of the American Statistical Association Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Place of birth missing (living people) Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Presidents of the Statistical Society of Canada 1938 births