Christine Michaela Anderson-Cook (born 1966) is a U.S. and Canadian statistician known for her work on the

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, response surface methodology, reliability analysis in

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, multiple objective optimization and decision-making, and the applications of statistics in

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. She has published over 200 research articles in statistical, engineering and interdisciplinary journals. She also written on misunderstandings caused by "hidden jargon": technical terms in statistics that are difficult to distinguish from colloquial English. Anderson-Cook is a project leader in the US National Technical Nuclear Forensics Center, a research scientist at the

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, and a former chair of the

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Section of Quality and Productivity and of the

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Education and career

Anderson-Cook did her undergraduate studies at Western University and the

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, earning a bachelor's degree in education from Western University and a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Waterloo in 1989. She moved to the

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for a master's degree in statistics in 1990, and returned to Waterloo for her Ph.D., which she completed in 1994. Her dissertation, ''Location and Dispersion Analysis for Factorial Experiments with Directional Data'', was supervised by C. F. Jeff Wu. She was an assistant professor of statistics and actuarial science at Western University and then, beginning in 1996, an associate professor of statistics at

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, before moving to Los Alamos in 2004. She chaired the

Section of Quality and Productivity in 2006, and the

Statistics Division in 2010.

Book

Anderson-Cook is a co-author of the 3rd and 4th editions of the book ''Response Surface Methodology: Process and Product Optimization Using Designed Experiments'' (with Raymond H. Myers and Douglas C. Montgomery, Wiley, 2009 and 2016).

Recognition

Anderson-Cook became a

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in 2006, and a Fellow of the

in 2011 "for research in quality in the areas of design of experiments and reliability, for interdisciplinary collaboration and training of statistical thinking and quality ideas, and for dedicated service to the growth and practice of the quality profession". The American Society for Quality gave Anderson-Cook their William G. Hunter Award in 2012, and their

Shewhart Medal The Shewhart Medal, named in honour of Walter A. Shewhart, is awarded annually by the American Society for Quality for ''...outstanding technical leadership in the field of modern quality control, especially through the development to its theory, ...

"for exemplary leadership, service, training, research, and applications in solving complex problems through statistical thinking and statistical engineering" in 2018. She won the Don Owen award of the San Antonio Chapter of the American Statistical Association in 2019. She became the first female recipient of the George Box Medal in 2021. She was also the winner of the Gerald J. Hahn Q&P Achievement Award in 2021.

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