Cyntha Anne Struthers (born 1953 or 1954) is a Canadian mathematical statistician whose research topics include

missing data In statistics, missing data, or missing values, occur when no data value is stored for the variable in an observation. Missing data are a common occurrence and can have a significant effect on the conclusions that can be drawn from the data. M ...

longitudinal studies A longitudinal study (or longitudinal survey, or panel study) is a research design that involves repeated observations of the same variables (e.g., people) over short or long periods of time (i.e., uses longitudinal data). It is often a type of ob ...

and

proportional hazards model Proportional hazards models are a class of survival models in statistics. Survival models relate the time that passes, before some event occurs, to one or more covariates that may be associated with that quantity of time. In a proportional haz ...

s. She is an associate professor of statistics and actuarial science at the

University of Waterloo The University of Waterloo (UWaterloo, UW, or Waterloo) is a public research university with a main campus in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is on of land adjacent to "Uptown" Waterloo and Waterloo Park. The university also operates ...

, and the former president of the

Caucus for Women in Statistics The Caucus for Women in Statistics is a professional society for women in statistics. It was founded in 1971, following discussions in 1969 and 1970 at the annual meetings of the American Statistical Association, with Donna Brogan as its first pr ...

Education and career

After earning a bachelor's degree in mathematics, and a master's degree in statistics in 1977 from the University of Waterloo, Struthers took a teaching position in mathematics at the university before gaining the confidence to return to doctoral study. She completed her Ph.D. in statistics at Waterloo in 1985); her doctoral dissertation, ''Asymptotic properties of linear rank tests with censored data'', was supervised by Jack Kalbfleisch. She began working as a mathematics professor at

St. Jerome's University St. Jerome's University, commonly shortened to St. Jerome's or SJU, is a public Roman Catholic university in Waterloo, Ontario. It is federated with the University of Waterloo. St. Jerome's, within the University of Waterloo, combines academic ...

in 1985, and chaired the department there, before moving to the University of Waterloo in 2014 when the mathematics programs at St. Jerome's were consolidated into the University of Waterloo.

Service

Struthers was the founding chair of the Canadian section of the

, from 1987 to 1989, and served as president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics for the 1991 term. She chaired the Committee on Women in Statistics of the

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 a ...

from 1998 to 2000.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Struthers, Cyntha 1954 births Living people Canadian statisticians Canadian women statisticians University of Waterloo alumni Academic staff of the University of Waterloo