Maura Ellen Stokes is an American statistician and novelist. She is a senior director of research and development for the

SAS Institute SAS Institute (or SAS, pronounced "sass") is an American multinational developer of analytics software based in Cary, North Carolina. SAS develops and markets a suite of analytics software ( also called SAS), which helps access, manage, analy ...

, the co-author of the statistics book ''Categorical Data Analysis using SAS'', and a

Fellow of the American Statistical Association Like many other academic professional societies, the American Statistical Association (ASA) uses the title of Fellow of the American Statistical Association as its highest honorary grade of membership. The number of new fellows per year is limited ...

. She is also the author of the early-teen novel ''Fadeaway'', published by Simon & Schuster in 2018.

Education and statistical career

Stokes earned a bachelor's degree, master's degree, and Ph.D. in biostatistics from the

University of North Carolina The University of North Carolina is the multi-campus public university system for the state of North Carolina. Overseeing the state's 16 public universities and the NC School of Science and Mathematics, it is commonly referred to as the UNC Sy ...

in 1978, 1979, and 1986 respectively. She also has an MFA in writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. After working for the Center for Survey Statistics in North Carolina from 1982 to 1985, she has been affiliated with the SAS Institute since 1986, and has held an adjunct faculty position at the University of North Carolina since 1987.

Books

Stokes is the author of: *''Categorical Data Analysis Using the SAS system'' (with Charles S. Davis and Gary G. Koch, 1995; 2nd ed., 2000; 3rd ed., ''Categorical Data Analysis Using SAS'', 2012) *''Fadeaway'' (2018)

Recognition

Stokes was elected as a

in 2008. In 2016, the American Statistical Association gave her their Founders Award for distinguished service to the organization, "for sustained, thoughtful contributions to the expansion of professional development opportunities for practicing statisticians; for outstanding leadership in the development of the Applied Conference on Statistical Practice, which extends the reach of the ASA to nonstatisticians as well as statisticians; for commitment to enhancing the relevance of the ASA to applied statisticians as evidenced by her leadership in the creation of the ASA's Professional Development Guidelines; for insightful teaching of LearnStat and JSM short courses; and for continued mentoring at the local and national levels".

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