Susan P. Holmes is an American statistician and professor at

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. She is noted for her work in applying nonparametric multivariate statistics, bootstrapping methods, and data visualization to biology. She received her PhD in 1985 from Université Montpellier II. She served as a tenured research scientist at INRA for ten years. She then taught at MIT and Harvard and was an associate professor of biometry at Cornell before moving to Stanford in 1998. She is married to fellow Stanford professor

Persi Diaconis Persi Warren Diaconis (; born January 31, 1945) is an American mathematician of Greek descent and former professional magician. He is the Mary V. Sunseri Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at Stanford University. He is particularly known f ...

. She is a Fellow of the

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Living people American biostatisticians University of Montpellier alumni Stanford University Department of Statistics faculty Massachusetts Institute of Technology staff Harvard University staff Cornell University faculty Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics American women statisticians Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-statistician-stub American mathematical statisticians