Kaye Enid Basford (born 10 August 1952) is an Australian statistician and

biometrician Biostatistics (also known as biometry) are the development and application of statistical methods to a wide range of topics in biology. It encompasses the design of biological experiments, the collection and analysis of data from those experimen ...

who applies statistical methods to

plant genetics Plant genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity specifically in plants.Hartl D, Jones E (2005) It is generally considered a field of biology and botany, but intersects frequently with many other life sciences and is strongly ...

. She is a professor in the School of Biomedical Sciences at the

University of Queensland , mottoeng = By means of knowledge and hard work , established = , endowment = A$224.3 million , budget = A$2.1 billion , type = Public research university , chancellor = Peter Varghese , vice_chancellor = Deborah Terry , city = B ...

, and head of the school. She was president of the Statistical Society of Australia from 2005 to 2007, and president of the

International Biometric Society The International Biometric Society (IBS) is an international professional and academic society promoting the development and application of statistical and mathematical theory and methods in the biosciences, including biostatistics. It sponsors ...

from 2010 to 2011. Before moving to Biomedical Sciences, she was the head of the School of Land, Crop and Food Sciences at the University of Queensland from 2001 to 2010. After earning her B.Sc. (Hon) she worked for the Dental School, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, contributing many papers on dentistry. Basford earned her Ph.D. in 1985 from the School of Physical Sciences at the University of Queensland. Her dissertation, jointly supervised by

Geoffrey McLachlan Geoffrey John McLachlan FAA (born 3 October 1946) is an Australian researcher in computational statistics, machine learning and pattern recognition. McLachlan is best known for his work in classification and finite mixture models. He is the join ...

and Don Byth, was ''Cluster Analysis via Normal Mixture Models''. With McLachlan, Basford is the author of a book on

mixture model In statistics, a mixture model is a probabilistic model for representing the presence of subpopulations within an overall population, without requiring that an observed data set should identify the sub-population to which an individual observatio ...

s, ''Mixture Models: Inference and Applications to Clustering'' (Marcel Dekker, 1988). With John Tukey she wrote ''Graphical Analysis of Multiresponse Data: Illustrated with a Plant Breeding Trial'' (Chapman & Hall / CRC, 1999. In 1998, the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology awarded Basford the Australian Medal for Agricultural Science. She was elected in 2006 as a fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (AATSE) and is vice-president of the AATSE. In 2010 she became a life member of the Statistical Society of Australia. She is also a fellow of the

Institute of Statisticians The Institute of Statisticians was a British professional organization founded in 1948 to protect the interests of professional statisticians. It was originally named ''The Association of Incorporated Statisticians Limited'', but this was later cha ...

and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Basford, Kaye 1952 births Living people Australian statisticians Women statisticians University of Queensland alumni University of Queensland faculty Members of the Order of Australia Elected Members of the International Statistical Institute Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering