Dominique Marie-Annick Haughton is a French statistician whose research interests include

business analytics Business analytics (BA) refers to the skills, technologies, and practices for continuous iterative exploration and investigation of past business performance to gain insight and drive business planning. Business analytics focuses on developing ne ...

standards of living Standard of living is the level of income, comforts and services available, generally applied to a society or location, rather than to an individual. Standard of living is relevant because it is considered to contribute to an individual's quality ...

, and applications of statistics to

music Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspect ...

. She is a professor of mathematical sciences at

Bentley University Bentley University is a private university focused on business, accountancy, and finance and located in Waltham, Massachusetts. Founded in 1917 as a school of accounting and finance in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood, Bentley moved to Waltham in ...

. She is also an associated researcher with the research center on Statistique, Analyse et Modélisation Multidisciplinaire at the

University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne 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, the ...

Education and career

After studying for the

baccalauréat The ''baccalauréat'' (; ), often known in France colloquially as the ''bac'', is a French national academic qualification that students can obtain at the completion of their secondary education (at the end of the ''lycée'') by meeting certain ...

at the Lycée Pierre de la Ramée in Saint-Quentin, in Northern France, and continued study at the

Lycée privé Sainte-Geneviève The Lycée Sainte-Geneviève is a private ''lycée'', located in Versailles and providing preparatory classes for ''grandes écoles''. It was founded by the Jesuits in Paris in April 1854. It is often nicknamed ''Ginette'' and sometimes ''BJ'', ...

, Haughton entered the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1975, where she earned a master's degree in mathematics in 1976, a

licenciate A licentiate (abbreviated Lic.) is an academic degree present in many countries, representing different educational levels. It may be similar to a master's degree when issued by pontifical universities and other universities in Europe, Latin A ...

in English in 1977, and a

Diplôme d'études approfondies A Master of Advanced Studies or Master of Advanced Study (MAS, M.A.S., or MASt) is a postgraduate degree awarded in various countries. Master of Advanced Studies programs may be non-consecutive programs tailored for "specific groups of working pro ...

in mathematics in 1977. After a year at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

as a Sachs scholar, she entered the Ph.D. program at the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

, and completed a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1983. Her dissertation, ''On the Choice of a Model to Fit Data from an Exponential Family'', was supervised by

Richard M. Dudley Richard Mansfield Dudley (July 28, 1938 – January 19, 2020) was Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Education and career Dudley was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his BA at Harvard College and received ...

. After working as an assistant professor at

Swarthmore College Swarthmore College ( , ) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1864, with its first classes held in 1869, Swarthmore is one of the earliest coeduca ...

Temple University Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public state-related research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptist minister Russell Conwell and his congregation Grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia then called Ba ...

, and the

University of Lowell The University of Massachusetts Lowell (UMass Lowell and UML) is a Public university, public research university in Lowell, Massachusetts, with a satellite campus in Haverhill, Massachusetts. It is the northernmost member of the University of Mas ...

, she joined the Bentley University faculty in 1991.

Books

Haughton is the co-author, with Mark-David McLaughlin, Kevin Mentzer, and Changan Zhang, of the book ''Movie Analytics: A Hollywood Introduction to Big Data'' (Springer, 2015). She is also the coauthor, with Jonathan Haughton, of ''Living Standards Analytics: Development through the Lens of Household Survey Data'' (Springer, 2011).

Recognition

Haughton was named 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 ...

in 2011 "for outstanding collaborative research, outreach, and training in business analytics; for analysis of international living standards data; and for service to the profession".

References

External links

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