Lisa Marie Lix (born 1966) is a Canadian health scientist and biostatistician at the University of Manitoba, where she holds a

Canada Research Chair Canada Research Chair (CRC) is a title given to certain Canadian university research professors by the Canada Research Chairs Program. Program goals The Canada Research Chair program was established in 2000 as a part of the Government of Canada ...

. Topics in her research have included

cohort studies A cohort study is a particular form of longitudinal study that samples a cohort (a group of people who share a defining characteristic, typically those who experienced a common event in a selected period, such as birth or graduation), performing ...

and the

analysis of variance Analysis of variance (ANOVA) is a collection of statistical models and their associated estimation procedures (such as the "variation" among and between groups) used to analyze the differences among means. ANOVA was developed by the statisticia ...

as well as bowel disease and disease-related bone fracture risk.

Education and career

Lix majored in

home economics Home economics, also called domestic science or family and consumer sciences, is a subject concerning human development, personal and family finances, consumer issues, housing and interior design, nutrition and food preparation, as well as texti ...

at the

University of Saskatchewan 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, t ...

, graduating in 1988. After a 1991 master's degree in human ecology at the University of Manitoba, she earned her Ph.D. at the University of Manitoba in 1995, in an interdisciplinary program combining statistics, psychology, and human ecology. Her dissertation, ''Probing Interactions in Repeated Measures Designs: Applications in Clothing and Textiles Research'', was supervised by Harvey Keselman. She became a researcher at the University of Manitoba in 2001, and an assistant professor of community health sciences there in 2002. From 2008 to 2012 she also held a position as associate professor at the University of Saskatchewan, while keeping a part-time faculty appointment at the University of Manitoba. She returned to at Manitoba as a full professor in 2012. She directed the Biostatistics Consulting Unit at the University of Manitoba from 2005 to 2008, and has directed the Data Science Unit of the George and Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation since 2012. She was president of the Biostatistics Section 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 aw ...

for 2010.

Recognition

Lix held a Manitoba Research Chair from 2012 to 2017, and holds a Tier I

in Methods for Electronic Health Data Quality in the Department of Community Health Sciences since 2018. She was named a

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in 2020. She was elected chair of the ASA Health Policy Statistics program in 2021.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lix, Lisa 1966 births Living people Canadian statisticians Women statisticians University of Manitoba alumni Academic staff of the University of Manitoba Academic staff of the University of Saskatchewan Fellows of the American Statistical Association