Jennifer Kaye Rogers is a British statistician. She was the Director of Statistical Consultancy Services at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

and an associate professor at Oxford before joining

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PHASTAR in August 2019. Her research has involved

point process In statistics and probability theory, a point process or point field is a collection of mathematical points randomly located on a mathematical space such as the real line or Euclidean space. Kallenberg, O. (1986). ''Random Measures'', 4th edition. ...

es and making inferences from the dropout times of repeated events, as well as applications of statistics to

clinical trial Clinical trials are prospective biomedical or behavioral research studies on human participants designed to answer specific questions about biomedical or behavioral interventions, including new treatments (such as novel vaccines, drugs, dietar ...

s for

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. She is also active in presenting statistics to the public.

Education and career

Rogers studied statistics at

Lancaster University Lancaster University (legally The University of Lancaster) is a public university, public research university in Lancaster, Lancashire, Lancaster, Lancashire, England. The university was established in 1964 by royal charter, as one of several pla ...

with the plan of working in the pharmaceutical industry. She earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics with statistics from

in 2006, completing a master's degree in statistics at Lancaster in 2007. While at Lancaster, she became more interested in statistical methodology and, following that interest, moved to the

University of Warwick The University of Warwick ( ; abbreviated as ''Warw.'' in post-nominal letters) is a public research university on the outskirts of Coventry between the West Midlands (county), West Midlands and Warwickshire, England. The university was founded i ...

for doctoral study in statistics. She completed her Ph.D. in 2011. Her dissertation, ''Statistical Models for Censored Point Processes with Cure Fractions'', was supervised by

Jane Hutton Jane Luise Hutton is a British medical statistician. Her research interests include meta-analysis, survival analysis, and ethics in mathematics, and she has participated in highly-cited studies on autism and cerebral palsy. She is a professor of ...

. After working as a research fellow and lecturer at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and as a post-doctoral research fellow at Oxford, she became Director of Statistical Consultancy Services at Oxford in 2016, and associate professor in 2019. She joined

PHASTAR as head of statistical research in August 2019.

Service

Rogers is vice president for external affairs of the

Royal Statistical Society The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) is an established statistical society. It has three main roles: a British learned society for statistics, a professional body for statisticians and a charity which promotes statistics for the public good. ...

. She was the 2018 president of the Mathematical Sciences Section of the

British Science Association The British Science Association (BSA) is a charity and learned society founded in 1831 to aid in the promotion and development of science. Until 2009 it was known as the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA). The current Chie ...

Recognition

Rogers was chosen as the Guy Lecturer for 2014 by the Royal Statistical Society. At Oxford, Rogers won an MPLS Impact Award in 2018 for her "contribution ... to the engagement of young people and non-statisticians with the application of statistics".

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