Merlise Aycock Clyde is an American statistician known for her work in model averaging for Bayesian statistics. She is a professor of Statistical Science and immediate past chair of the Department of Statistical Science at

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

. She was president of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) in 2013, and chair of the Section on Bayesian Statistical Science of the American Statistical Association for 2018.

Education

Clyde graduated from

Oregon State University Oregon State University (OSU) is a public land-grant, research university in Corvallis, Oregon. OSU offers more than 200 undergraduate-degree programs along with a variety of graduate and doctoral degrees. It has the 10th largest engineering co ...

in 1985 with a

Bachelor of Science A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University of ...

in Forestry. She earned two master's degrees, one from the

University of Alberta The University of Alberta, also known as U of A or UAlberta, is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford,"A Gentleman of Strathcona – Alexander Cameron Rutherfor ...

in 1986 in Forest Biometrics and another from the

University of California, Riverside The University of California, Riverside (UCR or UC Riverside) is a public land-grant research university in Riverside, California. It is one of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The main campus sits on in a suburban distr ...

in 1988 in Statistics, before completing her Ph.D. at the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

in 1993 in Statistics. Her dissertation, supervised by Kathryn Chaloner, was ''Bayesian Optimal Designs for Approximate Normality'', which received the Savage Award for outstanding dissertation in Bayesian econometrics and statistics in 1994.

Awards and honors

Clyde is 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 ...

, of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis, and of the

Institute of Mathematical Statistics The Institute of Mathematical Statistics is an international professional and scholarly society devoted to the development, dissemination, and application of statistics and probability. The Institute currently has about 4,000 members in all parts o ...

. She was one of two winners of the Zellner Medal of the ISBA in 2016 "for their outstanding service to ISBA".

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