Helena Chmura Kraemer is an American professor emerita of biostatistics at Stanford University. She is a fellow of the

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Education

Helena Chmura Kraemer completed a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics with

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honors from Smith College in 1957. In 1958, Kraemer attended

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as a

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. Kraemer earned a Doctor of Philosophy in statistics from Stanford University in 1963. Her dissertation was titled ''Point Estimation in Learning Models''. Her doctoral advisor was

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Career

Kraemer is a professor emerita of biostatistics in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.

Awards and honors

Kraemer became a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1987. She is a member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (1994) and the

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(2003). She was awarded the Franklin Ebaugh Prize from Stanford University and the Harvard Prize in Psychiatric Biostatistics and Epidemiology (2001). In 2014, she was awarded an honorary degree from

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Selected works

Books

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References

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