Karen Kafadar is an American statistician. She is Commonwealth Professor of Statistics at the

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, and chair of the statistics department there. She was editor-in-chief of ''

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'' from 1999 to 2001, and was president of the

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for 2011–2013. In 2017 she was elected president of the

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for the 2019 term.

Education and career

Kafadar earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics and a master's degree in statistics from

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, both in 1975. She completed her PhD in statistics from

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in 1979 under the supervision of

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; her dissertation was ''Robust Confidence Intervals for the One- and Two- Sample Problem''. Before moving to the University of Virginia in 2014, Kafadar was Rudy Professor of Statistics at

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. She has also worked for the

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, the

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, the

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, and

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Awards and honors

Kafadar is a

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of the American Statistical Association (since 1994) and the

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(2012), and an elected member of the

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(2007).

References

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