Ethel Marian Scott, (born July 1956) is a Scottish

statistician A statistician is a person who works with theoretical or applied statistics. The profession exists in both the private and public sectors. It is common to combine statistical knowledge with expertise in other subjects, and statisticians may wor ...

, author and academic, specialising in

environmental statistics Environment statistics is the application of statistical methods to environmental science. It covers procedures for dealing with questions concerning the natural environment in its undisturbed state, the interaction of humanity with the environment ...

and

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. She is

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of Environmental Statistics at the

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. She is additionally vice-president (International) of the

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, and a member of the Scottish Science Advisory Council.

Biography

Scott has a degree in

statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ''wikt:Statistik#German, Statistik'', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of ...

and a PhD from the

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. Her thesis was on the sources of error in

radiocarbon dating Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon. The method was dev ...

, and was supervised by Murdoch Baxter and Tom Aitchison. Her research interests include model uncertainty and sensitivity analysis, modelling how pollutants disperse in the environment, radiocarbon dating and assessing

animal welfare Animal welfare is the well-being of non-human animals. Formal standards of animal welfare vary between contexts, but are debated mostly by animal welfare groups, legislators, and academics. Animal welfare science uses measures such as longevity ...

. In 2005, Scott was elected a

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(FRSE), Scotland's

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of science and letters. In the 2009 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed an

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(OBE) for services to social science. Professor Scott was awarded 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. ...

Barnett Award in 2019 for "her outstanding, pioneering research into the application of innovative statistical techniques to environmental issues."

Selected works

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References

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