Mary C. Meyer is an American statistician. She is known for both theoretical and computational research in

nonparametric statistics Nonparametric statistics is the branch of statistics that is not based solely on parametrized families of probability distributions (common examples of parameters are the mean and variance). Nonparametric statistics is based on either being distr ...

and density estimation, especially for densities with shape constraints such as convexity or monotonicity. She is a professor of statistics at

Colorado State University Colorado State University (Colorado State or CSU) is a public land-grant research university in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is the flagship university of the Colorado State University System. Colorado State University is classified among "R1: ...

Education and career

Meyer obtained her Ph.D. in 1996 from the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

, under the supervision of

Michael Woodroofe Michael Barrett Woodroofe (March 17, 1940 – February 22, 2022) was an American probabilist and statistician. He was a professor of statistics and of mathematics at the University of Michigan, where he was the Leonard J. Savage Professor until ...

. Her dissertation was ''Shape-Restricted Inference with Applications to Nonparametric Regression, Smooth Nonparametric Function Estimation, and Density Estimation''. She was a faculty member in statistics at the

University of Georgia , mottoeng = "To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things.""To serve" was later added to the motto without changing the seal; the Latin motto directly translates as "To teach and to inquire into the nature of things." , establ ...

before moving to Colorado State University. While a statistics professor at Colorado State University, Meyer declared that a study of salaries by CSU created salary goals for women faculty that were "substantially smaller than for men". This led CSU to start studying pay equity in 2015, which in turn led later that year to a quarter of female full professors receiving higher pay. She has also led faculty opposition to increases in athletic spending by the university.

Book

Meyer is the author of the textbook ''Probability and Mathematical Statistics: Theory, Applications, and Practice in R'' (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2019).

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