Sally Ida McClean is a Northern Irish statistician, computer scientist, and

operations research Operations research ( en-GB, operational research) (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a discipline that deals with the development and application of analytical methods to improve decis ...

er. She is a professor of mathematics in the school of computing at

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, and a former president of the Irish Statistical Association. Topics in her research include workforce modeling,

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, and

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Education

McClean was born in

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. She earned an MA in mathematics from the

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in 1970 and an MSc in

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and

from Cardiff University in 1972. She completed a Ph.D. in 1976 at the

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. Her dissertation, ''Stochastic models of manpower planning applied to several British and Irish firms'', was supervised by Andrew Young.

Books

McClean's books include: *''Statistical techniques for manpower planning'' (2nd ed., with David J. Bartholomew and Andrew F. Forbes, Wiley, 1991) *''Questionnaire design: A practical introduction'' (with Noel Wilson, University of Ulster Press, 1994)

Recognition and service

McClean is a Fellow of the

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, and Fellow of the

Operational Research Society The Operational Research Society (ORS), also known as The OR Society, is an international learned society in the field of operational research (OR), with more than 3,100 members (2021). It has its headquarters in Birmingham, England. History The ...

. She was the second president of the Irish Statistical Association, serving as president from 1998 to 2000.

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